Brand Guidelines
2026 · Version 1.0 For internal and partner use only

A horizontal AI research lab building tools and infrastructure for the future of scientific discovery and knowledge work. We operate at the intersection of deep research and applied systems, partnering with institutions to accelerate what is possible — from early-stage exploration to full-scale end to end deployment.

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Research infrastructure built for institutions at scale. Designed to move faster, collaborate deeper, and never lose depth in the process.

Exploration Medical Finance

Space to think, test, and push into the edges of a field. Built for researchers chasing questions that don't have answers yet.

Education MathCommons Blogs RC

From first principles to full mastery. The scaffolding the next generation of researchers actually needs.

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Rigor 01

Every claim tested, every assumption questioned. We hold our methods to the highest standard and never cut corners on what matters.

Openness 02

Knowledge belongs to everyone. We build in public, share what we learn, and treat transparency as a default — not an afterthought.

Depth 03

We resist shallow answers and go further than most. The hardest problems demand patience, and we are built for exactly that.

Collaboration 04

Great research is never done alone. We build shared infrastructure because science — at its best — is always a collective act.

Impact 05

Measured by what changes in the world, not what ships. We build for outcomes that outlast the work and endure beyond the moment.

Curiosity 06

We follow questions before answers. The most important work begins with not knowing — and staying with it long enough to find out.

Everything we build starts with a question we can't ignore

White
Ink

The Mark

A minimal 5-node network graph — one central node connected to four outer nodes by direct edges. Connectivity, shared infrastructure, and the distributed nature of research.

Research Commons
White
Research Commons
Ink

The Lockup

The primary lockup pairs the mark with the wordmark set in Söhne Kräftig. Mark leads, wordmark follows. Use this as the default logo in full-brand contexts.

Light
Dark

Mark on Image

The ghost pill treatment keeps the mark legible on any photographic surface — light or dark. Use ink-a06 on bright images, white-a08 on dark.

Colour Palette

Three tiers, six core colours — paired by role. Black and white anchor the system. Ink-90 and ink-10 define the RC surface. Yellow and blue are the accent pair.

Base Black and white — type, space, absolute contrast.
Primary Ink-90 and ink-10 — the RC surface and logo canvas.
Accent Yellow for highlights and backgrounds. Blue for links, tags, and UI.
Ink 90
Primary
Black #000000
Base
Ink 10
Primary
White #FFFFFF
Base
Yellow #FFBF00
Accent
Blue #0076FF
Accent

Colour Scale

Eight neutral steps from black to white. Yellow and blue each expand into four tints — saturated base down to near-white.

Neutral Black, six ink steps, white.
Yellow Four tints from #FFBF00 to near-cream.
Blue Four tints from #0076FF to powder blue.
Black#000000
Ink 90#1C1B19
Ink 80#3D3B39
Ink 70#5B5957
Ink 60#7E7B79
White#FFFFFF
Ink 10#FAF9F8
Ink 20#EAE8E5
Ink 30#D4D2CF
Ink 40#B5B3B0
Yellow#F0BB00
Blue#0076FF
Yellow ·70#F4CC40
Blue ·70#409BFF
Yellow ·50#FAE7A6
Blue ·50#A6CFFF
Yellow ·30#FDF5D9
Blue ·30#D9EAFF

Transparency

Alpha-channel tokens for pill fills, borders, and overlays.

Ink · 4 steps Ghost pill fills and borders on light surfaces. Base: ink-90.
White · 2 steps Ghost pill fills and borders on dark surfaces.
Blue · 2 steps Accent pill backgrounds and borders.
Yellow · 2 steps Brand pill backgrounds and borders.
ink-90
ink-a06
ink-a12
blue
blue-a16
blue-a30
yellow
yellow-a16
yellow-a30
white
white-a08
white-a20
blue
blue-a16
blue-a30
yellow
yellow-a16
yellow-a30

Colour Usage

Semantic roles for text, borders, and pills on both surfaces. Always use role tokens — never reference scale tokens directly in components.

Text Three levels: primary, secondary, tertiary.
Border Three levels: primary (dividers), secondary (emphasis), accent (blue).
Pill Three styles: primary (solid), secondary (outlined), accent (blue).
Primary text text-primary
Secondary text text-secondary
Tertiary text text-tertiary
Accent text accent
Accent secondary accent-secondary
Label pill-primary
Label pill-secondary
Label Label
pill-accent
Label Label
pill-accent-secondary
border-primary
border-secondary
border-accent
Primary text text-primary-dark
Secondary text text-secondary-dark
Tertiary text text-tertiary-dark
Accent text accent-dark
Accent secondary accent-secondary-dark
Label pill-primary-dark
Label pill-secondary-dark
Label Label
pill-accent
Label Label
pill-accent-secondary
border-primary-dark
border-secondary-dark
border-accent-dark

Colour Usage

Continued from 03.4. Background and icon tokens on both surfaces.

Background Two levels: primary (page canvas) and secondary (cards, panels, inset areas).
Icon Plain icons use text colour tokens. Circle icons map to the pill token system.
bg-primary
bg-secondary
icon
icon-circle · solid
icon-circle · transparent
bg-primary-dark
bg-secondary-dark
icon
icon-circle · solid
icon-circle · transparent

Fonts

Söhne by Klim Type Foundry. Three weights cover all RC surfaces. Söhne Mono Buch is reserved for code, data, and technical contexts exclusively.

FoundryKlim Type Foundry
TypefacesSöhne · Söhne Mono Buch
Weights in use300 · 400 · 500
Söhne Leicht Söhne Buch Söhne Kräftig Söhne Mono Buch Buch
Leicht 300

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 !@#$%&*().,;?

Buch 400

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 !@#$%&*().,;?

Kräftig 500

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 !@#$%&*().,;?

Mono · Buch 400

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 !@#$%&*().,;?

Type Scale

Major Third modular scale — every step is ×1.25 the previous. Base is 15 px.

Name
Font
Size
Line height
Letter spacing
Micro
Söhne Mono Buch
9.6px
130%
+0.02em
Small
Söhne Mono Buch
12px
130%
+0.02em
Base
Söhne BuchSöhne Kräftig
15px
160%
+0.01em
H6
Söhne BuchSöhne Kräftig
19px
130%
−0.01em
H5
Söhne BuchSöhne Kräftig
23px
120%
−0.01em
H4
Söhne Buch
29px
130%
−0.01em
H3
Söhne Buch
37px
130%
−0.01em
H2
Söhne Buch
46px
130%
−0.01em
H1
Söhne Buch
57px
130%
−0.01em
Display
Söhne Buch
112px
100%
−0.01em

Full scale on dark. Mono and Buch weights hold at small sizes — Leicht (300) from H5 up, where optical thickening at contrast reversal matters.

Name
Font
Size
Line height
Letter spacing
Micro
Söhne Mono Buch
9.6px
130%
+0.02em
Small
Söhne Mono Buch
12px
130%
+0.02em
Base
Söhne LeichtSöhne Buch
15px
160%
+0.01em
H6
Söhne LeichtSöhne Buch
19px
130%
−0.01em
H5
Söhne LeichtSöhne Buch
23px
120%
−0.01em
H4
Söhne Leicht
29px
130%
−0.01em
H3
Söhne Leicht
37px
130%
−0.01em
H2
Söhne Leicht
46px
130%
−0.01em
H1
Söhne Leicht
57px
130%
−0.01em
Display
Söhne Leicht
112px
100%
−0.01em

Space Scale

Base-4 unit scale used for all layout spacing — padding, gaps, and margins. Never use arbitrary values outside this scale.

Base4px
Steps16
Max192px
192px
160px
128px
96px
64px
48px
32px
24px
16px
8px
4px

Illustrations

Illustrations are built from solid and dashed strokes at varying opacity, yellow accent points, and structured geometry. New constructs can be made by recombining these elements at different scales.

Stroke Solid · Dashed 2 4
Colour Ink · Yellow accent
Elements Lines · Rings · Nodes

Graphs

Blue is the primary data colour. Yellow enters as a second series. Shown on alternating light and dark surfaces.

→ Chart reference

Data Visualization

RC data visualizations reveal structure in research — relationships, cycles, distributions, and multi-dimensional profiles. Blue is the primary encoding colour; yellow marks significance.

Colour Blue · Yellow accent
Types Venn · Cycle · Radar · Stream
Surface Light · Dark (Venn)
X X X X Y Y Y 1 1 2 2 2 Enterprise Exploration Education Venn

Icons

We use Remix Icons line style for all interface icons — open source, MIT licensed. Remix offers line and fill variants; we use line throughout for a lighter, editorial feel.

Grid 24 × 24
Style Line
Source remixicon.com

Canvas Formats

Two aspect ratios for all RC social posts. Portrait for vertical feed placements; wide for banners and cross-platform sharing.

5 lu
5 lu
Portrait · 3 : 4 · 1080 × 1440 px · 5% ↔ · 3.75% ↕
5 lu
5 lu
Wide · 16 : 9 · 1920 × 1080 px · 2.81% ↔ · 5% ↕

Every layout is built from rectangular zones merged from a 4 × 4 grid. Zones have no fixed role — either zone can hold an image, colour, or text.

layout-rules.md
Grid first 01

All zone boundaries align to the 4 × 4 grid. Cuts only at 25 %, 50 %, or 75 % of the safe area — no arbitrary splits.

Merge freely 02

Adjacent cells can merge into one zone. The merged result must always be a rectangle. No L-shapes or diagonals.

Zones are neutral 03

Dark and light are placeholders only. Either zone holds image, text, colour, or diagram — role is defined by content, not the grid.

Bleed 04

Zones extend to the canvas edge. Cuts align to the SA grid lines but fills bleed to 0 % or 100 % — no margin preserved.

Normal 05

Zones stay within the 5 lu safe area. Gutter gaps between zones align to the dashed overlay. All zone corners are rounded.

Logo corners 06

The four corner zones are logo placement areas. The circular mark can sit in any corner depending on the layout. Colour to be defined.

Shared fill 07

Two zones can share the same background. One zone holds text, the other an image — the grid division is about content role, not colour contrast.

Bleed

Zones fill edge-to-edge. No margins. Hard cuts between zones. Use for bold, image-dominant posts.

Normal

Zones live inside the 5 lu safe area with gutters respected. Structured content, diagrams, and multi-section posts.

Bleed · Wide

16 : 9 canvas. Zones fill edge-to-edge. No margins. Hard cuts between zones. Use for banners and wide-format posts.

Normal · Wide

16 : 9 canvas. Zones live inside the 5 lu safe area with gutters respected. Structured content, diagrams, and multi-section posts at wide format.