Brand

Brand Overview

CAIRL brand guidelines — logo, color, typography, badge system, and legal requirements for the Internet passport.

Brand Overview

CAIRL's visual identity is built for institutional trust. Every element — from the bracket motif to the Trust Blue palette — reinforces the core message: identity infrastructure that is precise, calm, and principled.

Wordmark

[CAIRL] wordmark — black
[CAIRL] wordmark — white

Color palette

Brand system

The CAIRL brand system consists of five interconnected components:

  • Assets — Downloadable social banners, profile images, virtual backgrounds, and email signature files.
  • Logo — The [CAIRL] wordmark, [C] compact mark, and product lockups.
  • Color — Primary, extended, and semantic color palettes with accessibility compliance.
  • Typography — IBM Plex Mono (brand) and IBM Plex Sans (body/UI) type system.
  • Badges — Trust badge specifications, placement rules, and misuse guidelines.
  • Legal — Trademark, copyright, and third-party asset policies.

Design principles

The visual system follows three principles drawn from the brand personality:

  1. Precise — Exact values, locked geometry, no approximation. Every color has a named token, every mark has defined clearspace, every font weight has a specified role.
  2. Calm — Minimal palette, generous whitespace, no decorative elements. The brand communicates through restraint.
  3. Principled — Consistent rules applied uniformly. No exceptions for context, no special-case variations.

Quick reference

ElementValue
Primary wordmark[CAIRL] — IBM Plex Mono, black or white only
Compact mark[C] — used for favicons and small contexts
Primary colorTrust Blue — HSL 226 71% 40% / #1E40AF
Body typefaceIBM Plex Sans — weights 400, 500, 600, 700
Mono typefaceIBM Plex Mono — weights 400, 500, 600 (700 wordmark only)
Legal entityreAPPlicate Incorporated

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