Guidelines on how to implement the BEGEA visual brand system for cross media applications.
BEGEA is a wordmark-only identity. When a surface leaves no room for the full wordmark, the mark stands in on its own. Wordmark and mark are never locked together, which keeps the brand consistent everywhere it appears.
Core logo.
The mono variants are for monotone output: black-and-white print, a single-colour stencil, engraving or embossing, or anywhere the full-colour logo cannot be reproduced.
Logo system lockups.
Logo in motion.
Clear space.
Half the cap-height of the mark on every side.
The logo always sits on solid backgrounds, never over imagery. Keep the clear space free of other elements so the wordmark reads cleanly on any surface. Use the monochrome lockups when the surface forbids the color treatment.
Visual balance.
Each part of the circle represents how much of this colour should roughly be used in the system. Creativity is encouraged for special use-cases (promo, posters, etc.) but clean branded work should respect it.
- Obsidian44%
- Carbon18%
- Primary14%
- Secondary12%
- Graphite8%
- Ember4%
The gradient is a glow, not a fill. It has two grounds and they are not interchangeable: on Obsidian it reads as depth in the page itself, on Carbon it lifts a grey panel off that page. Never on white, never on paper, never over photography. The red and the ground are fixed; the composition is free. Wherever you anchor it, let it fade to nothing rather than filling its container, so it reads as light falling on the surface instead of a coloured background. The THEO MA1 machine line-up on the shop anchors it at two opposite corners, upper right and lower left, and fades it toward the centre.
Two typefaces carry the system: Saira for display and body, Play for accents.
Hero typeface — display/headline.
Body typeface — same family as the hero typeface.
Alt typeface — monospace or alternative.
Every step in the system.
Headings
- H1Display heading set in the hero face.96px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 96 / 96 px
- Tracking
- -1.0%
- Case
- Normal case
- H2Section title built from the same hierarchy.48px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 48 / 50 px
- Tracking
- -1.0%
- Case
- Normal case
- H3Body face at the largest editorial step. Use it for opening passages and emphatic statements.32px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 32 / 34 px
- Tracking
- 0.0%
- Case
- Normal case
- H4Body face at the mid-editorial step. Used for sub-headings and lede paragraphs.26px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 26 / 29 px
- Tracking
- 0.0%
- Case
- Normal case
- H5Caption-style heading20px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 20 / 21 px
- Tracking
- 0.0%
- Case
- Normal case
- H6Smallest heading18px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 18 / 20 px
- Tracking
- 0.0%
- Case
- Normal case
Body
- Body BaseBody face at the running text scale. Comfortable for paragraphs of up to 70 characters per line.18px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 18 / 29 px
- Tracking
- 0.0%
- Case
- Normal case
- Body SmallBody face at the small annotation scale. Captions, footnotes, table cells.16px
- Font
- Saira Regular 400
- Desktop
- 16 / 24 px
- Tracking
- 0.0%
- Case
- Normal case
Labels / Accent
- CaptionBrand guide / Version 1.013px
- Font
- Play Regular 400
- Desktop
- 13 / 18 px
- Tracking
- 7.7%
- Case
- Normal case
- ButtonTake action15px
- Font
- Play Regular 400
- Desktop
- 15 / 18 px
- Tracking
- 4.0%
- Case
- Normal case
- Usage
- Typography pointers for button text.
- LabelSection label13px
- Font
- Play Bold 700
- Desktop
- 13 / 18 px
- Tracking
- 12.0%
- Case
- All caps
Every button on every colour of the palette. Each background gets its own set, so contrast holds wherever a button lands. Hover and press to try them live.
Two sets. Marketing icons carry the brand's message; functional icons do the everyday work. Both come in three colours, each matched to its surface.
- Aanleren
- Ateliers
- Certificaat
- Compact
- Doorlassing
- Expertise
- Gewicht
- Inbranding
- Laserbron
- Laserkracht
- Leercurve
- Levensduur
- Levering
- Luchtkoeling
- Opleiding
- Praktijk
- Precisie
- Prijs
- Snelheid
- Sterkte
- Support
- Swiss
- Touchscreen
- Veiligheid
- Vervorming
- Zuinigheid
- Brand colourOn dark surfaces.
- WhiteOn brand colour surfaces.
- BlackOn light surfaces.
