Marks

Thesis

GT from ten rectangles under a 12 degree skew. The stem of the G is combed into three speed bars of different lengths, and one cut runs through both letters at mid height.

Construction

Ten rectangles on a 120 unit cap height under a 12 degree skew. The G is a stem, a top arm, a bottom arm, a chin and a right stem; the T is a crossbar and a stem; the three speed bars run 20, 80 and 50 units past the stem of the G at the top arm, at mid height and at the bottom arm. One 8 unit cut at mid height runs through both letters and splits the middle bar into two lines. The cut is applied to the geometry, so the file is plain polygons in one path, with no font, no mask and no id.

In use

There is no font in the file; the letters are geometry, so the mark holds at 16px and reads in either polarity. At 16px the cut and the thin bars fall to one pixel and the two letters carry the mark; from 32px the three bars read as bars.

Files

/marks/bar-monogram.svg

Thesis

The monogram over the name in Michroma at a fifth of the cap height, letter-spaced to the width of the monogram.

Construction

The monogram unchanged, and GENERAL TRANSLATION in Michroma at 24 units, a fifth of the 120 unit cap, set 46 units under it and letter-spaced so the name spans the width of the monogram, speed bars included. The name is converted to outlines at build time, so the file is two paths and no font.

In use

For sign-in plates, deck openers and anywhere the mark stands alone with room under it. The name is small: its font size is an eighth of the height of the lockup, so a 96px lockup sets the name at 12px, and the monogram alone serves the sizes under that.

Files

/marks/bar-monogram-lockup.svg

Thesis

GT in Orbitron Black cut out of a rounded plate under a 14 degree skew, with a hazard stripe clipped to the right end of the plate. The letters and the stripes are holes, so the ground shows through them.

Construction

A 320 by 120 plate with 12 unit corners, skewed 14 degrees about its bottom edge. GT is set in Orbitron Black at 90 units and cut out of the plate through a mask; the hazard stripe is bars 9 units wide on an 18 unit period at 35 degrees, clipped to the right 74 units of the plate and carried as holes of the same evenodd path. The file is one masked path in currentColor.

In use

The one direction that brings its own ground: on paper it is an ink plate, on ink a paper plate. It suits avatars, badges and the CLI banner, where a mark needs an edge of its own. At 16px the stripes merge into a gray end and the letters hold as two open counters; the stripe reads from about 48px.

Files

/marks/plate-inverted.svg

Thesis

GENERAL TRANSLATION in Anybody at width 150, black and upright, with two cuts through the line.

Construction

One line of Anybody Black at width 150, upright, at 100 units. Two cuts at 40 and 60 percent of the cap height, each 7 percent of the cap thick, are subtracted through a mask that spans the whole line. The letters are outlines from the build script; the file is one masked path and no font.

In use

The calmest of the set; the pair of cuts reads as speed without a slant. The line is 25 times wider than its cap, so it is for headers, footers, sleeves and the top of a document, and on this sheet it takes the full width. The cuts close below about 16px of cap height, where they fall under one pixel.

Files

/marks/double-cut.svg

Thesis

GENERAL over TRANSLATION in Anybody italics, a cut through each line and one forward slash across both.

Construction

GENERAL in Anybody Black Italic at width 150 and 150 units, over TRANSLATION in the Medium Italic sized to the same width with 2 units of letter spacing and a 40 unit gap between the lines. A cut runs through each line at mid cap height, and one slash at 22 degrees, 9 units wide, crosses both lines at 57 percent of the width. The cuts and the slash are subtracted through a mask; the file is one masked group of two paths.

In use

The loudest direction, for a livery, a jacket or a full-bleed slide. The slash stays one cut wide; wider, it turns into a stripe. Below about 48px the slash and the cuts fall under one pixel and close, so the stack is for large sizes.

Files

/marks/livery-stack.svg

Thesis

The monogram rasterised to square cells and printed through the 8 by 8 Bayer screen, solid at the left and thinning to the right.

Construction

The monogram sampled on a grid of 240 by 59 square cells, 16 samples per cell. A cell prints when more than half of it lies inside the monogram and the 8 by 8 Bayer screen passes it against a density that is 1 across the left third of the width and falls in a straight line to 0.18 at the right edge; 5,154 cells print. Every printed cell is one unit square in one path, so the file is one color and one path.

In use

The deck’s dither, on the mark: solid at the left, cells at the right, ink on paper. It sizes by cell, so it is for heights of 59px and up, where a cell is one pixel; below that the cells merge to gray and the mark reads as the monogram with a soft right edge.

Files

/marks/bar-monogram-dithered.svg

Thesis

The same grid at the aspect of a monospace cell, one @ per printed cell, solid at the left and dithering away to the right.

Construction

The monogram sampled on a grid whose cells have the aspect of a monospace character, three wide to five tall: 160 columns by 23 lines, one @ per printed cell, the same Bayer screen and the same density fall. The SVG sets each line as text in a monospace stack with textLength, so any monospace face fills the same width; the .txt file is the plain characters with the trailing spaces trimmed.

In use

For a code block, a README or the CLI banner: the .txt file is the characters, 160 columns wide, and the SVG stands in where text cannot be set. The characters need a monospace face; in a proportional face the columns drift and the mark breaks.

Files

/marks/bar-monogram-ascii.svgand/marks/bar-monogram-ascii.txt

Thesis

The bar of the G and the crossbar of the T are one stroke, a two-way arrow that starts inside the counter of the G, leaves through the aperture, carries the stem of the T and ends past it. The exchange between two languages is the stroke both letters hang from.

Construction

16 unit grid, stroke 32 (2 units). G ring centered (80, 80), outer radius 80, inner 48; terminal cut radially at minus 50 degrees; the spur rises to y 96 where it meets the shaft. Shaft y 64 to 96 from x 72 to 224; triangular heads 32 long and 64 tall, with apexes at (40, 80) inside the counter and (256, 80) past the stem. Stem x 176 to 208 from the shaft down to y 256. The letters are staggered: the G occupies the top left 160 square and the T hangs from the arrow into the bottom right.

In use

At 16px the heads flatten to a 2px bar with pointed ends; the ring, the bar and the long stem still read as G and T on both grounds. The arrow itself appears from about 48px.

Files

/marks/two-way.svgand/marks/two-way-construction.svg

Thesis

The counter of the G is a globe drawn by the T standing inside it. The stem of the T is the central meridian running to the south pole, its crossbar spans the disc as a parallel and closes a polar cap, and the bar of the G is the equator from the meridian out through the ring.

Construction

Ring centered (128, 128), outer R 120, inner R 88, stroke 32: a monogram filling the square from 16 to 240. Crossbar y 64 to 96 as a chord from wall to wall, leaving a 24 unit cap above it; stem x 112 to 144 from y 64 down into the inner bottom of the ring; bar y 128 to 160 from the stem to the outer circle. The terminal is the underside of the crossbar extended through the ring at y 96, so the mouth is a 32 unit slot between the crossbar and the bar. One evenodd path: an outer loop plus three holes (the cap, the left counter, the lower right quadrant).

In use

At 16px it reads as a T inside a G ring with a 2px mouth tucked under the crossbar; the cap vanishes, so it is a monogram at small sizes and a globe from 32px up. The weakest letter read of the earlier round: the G depends on the mouth, and the arms of the T merge into the ring.

Files

/marks/globe-g.svgand/marks/globe-g-construction.svg

The current mark, the doubled-line GT monogram. It is the reference the marks are measured against, and it is not a candidate.