Marchamo

Brand assets

The mark, the colours, and the rules that come with them.

Everything here is free to use when writing or reporting about Marchamo. Please do not alter the mark or imply a partnership we have not agreed.

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The mark

A crimped seal, with the M cut out of the band.

A marchamo is the lead seal a customs officer closes over goods: a closed thing that shows when it has been opened. The mark is that object, not an abstraction of it.

Primary On paper or any light ground. The M is knocked out, so the ground shows through it. mark.svg 1024 png 512 png
On dark The lighter blue is the dark-theme accent. The knockout takes the dark ground, never white. mark.svg transparent png
One colour Embossing, foil, laser, engraving, single-plate print. The M is drawn as a stroke, because a knockout fills in when pressed into a surface. mark-mono.svg
Marchamo
Lockup Mark and wordmark. The wordmark is live text in Spectral — outline it to paths before sending anything to a printer. lockup.svg

Using the mark

Leave clear space on every side equal to the seal’s radius, about a third of the mark’s width. Minimum size is 24 pixels; below that use the favicon, whose strokes are thickened to survive. Do not stretch it unevenly, rotate it, add a shadow, recolour the knockout to anything but the ground behind it, or place it over a busy photograph.

Colour

One accent, spent in one place.

The neutral is a grey biased toward the accent rather than a default grey. Light-theme values shown; the dark-theme pairs are in the stylesheet.

Ink#12181E
Customs blue#1E4B6B
Lead#6E7B85
Brass#8C7343
Bond#E7ECEE
Paper#F2F5F6

Three colours the brand never uses

Green, amber and red already mean something here: they are the verdict a shopper sees when they scan a label. If marketing also used them, a promotional page and a recall notice would start to look alike. They stay reserved for the verdict, permanently.

Genuine, sold by an authorised seller Genuine, not yet recorded as sold Recalled, or flagged by the maker

Typography

Three faces, each doing one job.

All three are open licence and self-hosted on this domain. We never load fonts from a content network, because that would send every visitor’s address to a third party.

Spectral · display · 600, 700
Proof that outlives us.
A screen serif with the proportions of a printed document. Authority without the theatrics of a fashion serif.
Public Sans · body · variable
Register every item you make. Record each handover with two signatures. Anyone who scans the label sees whether it is genuine — free, forever, with no app to install.
The typeface of the United States government design system: a literal fit for a company whose output is an official record.
IBM Plex Mono · data · 400, 500
09506000134352 · SN-0003 · FIX-LOT-1
FUu-o_qcPWeWJy0eBOBpfR4jG3xhUPgAxCTW_s8D_7c
People read these aloud, compare them by eye, and type them back. Zero and letter O must never be in doubt.