Anchor

Brand Guidelines

A quiet mark for shared reality.

Guidelines for using the Anchor name, mark, and visual system.

Anchor Black

#111113

Anchor Gray

#6e6e73

Cloud

#f5f5f7

Iris

#6e6bff

Mark

The Anchor mark is a circle with one centered horizontal line. It represents a shared horizon: one reality held from more than one point of view.

Use the mark with enough space to remain exact. Do not add axes, shadows, gradients, construction lines, facial features, orbital rings, or decorative variants.

Language

Anchor language should be short, confident, and slightly unsettling without becoming theatrical.

Prefer institutional nouns and direct sentences. Avoid roadmap phrasing, future dates, product versioning, motivational slogans, and over-explaining the premise.

  • Shared reality
  • Continuity
  • Drift
  • Horizon
  • Consensus

Materials

Brand applications should feel physical, precise, and understated. The mark should look printed, engraved, embroidered, debossed, or embedded depending on the object.

Merch imagery should be realistic product photography with mark-only branding. Avoid wordmarks, slogans, mockup overlays, and fake sticker placement.

Interface

Interfaces should use restrained typography, thin borders, generous whitespace, and strong alignment. Avoid decorative gradients, marketing cards, oversized explanations, and novelty motion.

The visual system should feel like a product already installed in the world.

Misuse

Do not stretch the mark, rotate it off-axis, redraw it by hand, place it inside a busy texture, combine it with third-party marks without permission, or use it to imply endorsement.

When the mark cannot be rendered clearly, use the word Anchor instead of improvising a new symbol.