Brand

Brand Guidelines

One mark, one bar, one accent. The Polymaths Engineering identity is deliberately quiet — black, white, one blue — so the engineering does the talking.

02 — Brand bar

A persistent strip of blue.

The brand bar runs along the bottom of every page — a 1/16 of the viewport height, never less than 32 px. It signs the page without taking it over.

03 — Colour

Black, white, one blue.

The palette is intentionally narrow. Black and white carry the structure; the single blue is reserved for the brand bar, links, and selection — never decoration.

Brand

Black #000000 · --black Structure, type, inverted sections
White #FFFFFF · --white Paper, type on dark
Polymaths Blue #1A6AFF · --blue Brand bar, links, accents, selection

Ink

Ink #000000 · --ink Primary type on paper
Ink 2 #5A5A5A · --ink-2 Body copy, kickers
Ink 3 #9A9A9A · --ink-3 Muted labels, numerals

Paper & rule

Paper #FFFFFF · --paper Default surface
Paper 2 #F4F4F4 · --paper-2 Card hover, soft slabs
Rule #E6E6E6 · --rule Hairlines, dividers, card edges

04 — Typography

Inter, light by default.

One typeface, three weights. Light (300) carries headlines and body. Regular (400) for kickers and UI. Medium (500) reserved for emphasis. Display sizes use tight tracking; small sizes use the mono tracking for kickers and labels.

Weights

Scale

Tracking

Tight
−0.035em · section titles, layer names
Tighter
−0.04em · wordmark, large display
Mono
+0.02em · kickers, labels, numerals (uppercase)

05 — Principles

How it all holds together.

  1. 01 Quiet by default Black on paper · one accent · no decoration
  2. 02 Hairlines, not boxes 1 px rules · subgrid alignment · no shadows
  3. 03 Type as the structure Inter Light · tight tracking · generous line-height
  4. 04 The bar is always there Blue strip · bottom of every page · 1/16 viewport