Brand

Ink, paper,
and a photograph.

Everything you need to represent Memco: the wordmark and monogram as vectors, the palette, and the type. Only the logo files download — the rest are rules.

01Logo

The period is the only mark.

Set in Iowan Old Style Bold and traced to vectors — use the files, never re-set it in another face. Lowercase, always; the sentence ends in ink.

Wordmarkon paper
memco. wordmark, ink
ink · 576×92SVGPNG 2×
Wordmarkon ink
memco. wordmark, paper
paper · 576×92SVGPNG 2×
Monogramfavicon · avatars
m. monogram

The wordmark never renders below 96px wide — below that, the monogram takes over. Legible to 16px.

Using the mark
  • Give it room — clear space on every side, at least the height of the period.
  • Two colours only: ink on paper, paper on ink.
  • Never outlined, shadowed, tinted or rotated.
  • Over a field, the wordmark is paper and centred.
  • Always lowercase. The period stays.

02Colour

Monochrome interface.
The colour lives in the fields.

Ink on a warm paper field, white cards, warm greys — no hue anywhere in the interface. Imagery is the one exception: the photographs behind the heroes carry what colour the site has.

Ink#0E0E0EType, fills, dark bands
Paper#F7F5F2The page field
Card#FFFFFFRaised surfaces
Grey 1#F2F0EDSunken fills
Grey 2#EAE7E3Pressed states
Grey 3#DEDBD6Deepest fill

Those colours are page furniture, not brand colours — every hero draws its field at random from one set of sixty, so no page owns a hue. They never colour buttons, text or borders.

03Typography

Three faces, three jobs.

Plus Jakarta Sans speaks, IBM Plex Mono annotates, Iowan Old Style marks the brand.

Plus Jakarta SansDisplay & interface
400 / 500 / 600 / 700display 600 · −.035embody 16 / 1.6 · lead 17 / 1.55

The next run starts
ahead of the first.

Body copy runs 16 on 1.6 at a 640px measure. Hierarchy comes from weight and the two-tone turn — never from a second family.

Aa 400Aa 500Aa 600Aa 700
IBM Plex MonoTechnical register
400 / 500labels 11 · .12em · uppercaseevidence · traces · code

From the field

run 412 · payments · ci
lesson promoted → team scope
τ-bench banking · arXiv:2607.22157

The voice of the machine: eyebrows, provenance lines, traces. It labels — it never persuades.

Iowan Old Style BTBrand serif
400 / 700 / 900 + italicsthe wordmark · rare quotesnever body copy

memco.

One serif moment per page, at most — the wordmark, or a pulled quote.

the loop

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