A stamped, block-built identity for an operator's inbox. One thing is always lifted out of the stack: the docket that needs you.
Docket
stamp
Exception-first workbench. Heavy squares, flat colour, big numerals, no curves anywhere in the mark.
Fictional demonstration data — not real equipmentThree flat blocks on a 64-unit grid. A forest body with a slot cut into its top edge — the counter reads as a heavy, square M. A pink tab sits in the slot but is lifted 16 units clear of the shoulders, leaving an 8-unit gap: the docket pulled out of the pile. A butter square stamps the corner, like a receipt mark.
Pink here is the brand's accent and the selected docket — it never means danger. The butter corner is the only place butter appears outside a Warning.
Not a ring, bolt, shield, socket, sine wave, feeder diagram or rounded monogram: it is orthogonal blocks only, zero radii, and its silhouette is a notched square with a raised tab.
lockup.svg on Ground #EFEEEA
wordmark.svg — Unbounded Bold, outlined, −20 tracking
lockup-dark.svg on Forest #0E4D3Alockup-dark.svg on Ink #121212 · lockup-mono.svg for one-colour printQueue (3) — MainsKeeperRouter adminQueue (3) — MainsKeeperRouter adminAt 16 px the slot is 6 px wide and the lift gap 2 px — both land on whole pixels, so the tab never blurs into the body. favicon.svg is the same artwork on a 16-unit grid and switches its body to #EFEEEA under a dark OS colour scheme.
#C8102E — dedicated to Critical, always with a white label and the notched triangle. Pink and red never sit in the same role.| Pair | Ratio | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Ink on pink | 7.9 : 1 | Selected row, labels on pink |
| Ink on butter | 13.0 : 1 | Warning plates, battery phrase |
| White on red | 5.9 : 1 | Critical plate |
| White on forest | 9.8 : 1 | Header, Recovering plate |
| Pink on ink | 7.9 : 1 | CLI structure, dark focus ring |
| Ink-2 #3B3B38 on ground | 9.7 : 1 | Secondary text |
| Pink on forest | 4.1 : 1 | Not for text. Large fills only (the mark’s tab). |
| White on pink | 2.4 : 1 | Never. |
Last known 15:10 · charge 100% · temperature Not reported. Acknowledged — still open.
Fallbacks: “Arial Black” for display, system-ui for body, ui-monospace/Menlo/Consolas for mono. Font files and OFL.txt are in concepts/f/fonts/.
One icon family: heavy flat shapes on a 16-grid, built from the same squares as the mark. Status always pairs a shape with a word — never colour alone.
- CriticalBroadwater · #041213 min BW Rack UPS on battery
- WarningShop · #041312 min Contact lost with 2 of 2 probes — cause unknown
- RecoveringDuplex · #04091 h 38 min Contact restored; history uploading
The mark's lifted tab becomes the pink selected row; its heavy body becomes the 4 px rules that split queue, evidence and fleet. The logo stays a stamp; the interface borrows its geometry, not its picture.
Why a docket
Operators work incidents like a clerk works a spike of tickets: one at a time, most urgent on top. The stamp says “this one is pulled”; the name says the product keeps a record.
Why these colours
Forest + bubblegum + butter is deliberately un-industrial: no hazard yellow-black, no alarm-red brand. That frees true red to mean one thing only — Critical.
Why two voices
Unbounded is wide and loud for counts and headlines; Atkinson Hyperlegible does the careful reading when someone is tired and something is failing.
