Brand assets

The mark, the wordmark,
and how to use them.

Everything below is free to use when you're writing or talking about Else. Please use the supplied files rather than a screenshot, and please don't redraw anything.

What the mark means

A rounded square with the top-left corner removed. The corner you keep is the part only you can do; the remainder is what you hand over. The geometry is fixed — that notch is the idea, so it can't be resized, rotated or filled with a gradient.

Downloads

Take the files.

SVG for anything on screen or in print. PNG where a raster is required.

Else wordmark with the coral period
Wordmark
The default lockup. Ink letters, coral period.

Download SVG

Else wordmark in a single colour
Wordmark, single colour
For one-colour print, engraving, or any dark background.

Download SVG

The Else mark in coral
The mark, coral
Standalone symbol. Use where the name is already present.

Download SVG

The Else mark in a single colour
The mark, single colour
Inherits whatever colour it sits in. For mono contexts only.

Download SVG

Else app icon Else favicon
App icon & favicons
Pre-rendered rasters at the sizes platforms ask for.

512 · 192 · 180 · 48 · 32 · 16 · SVG

Else avatar, coral mark on paper Else avatar, reversed on coral
Social avatars
Square 400px. Mark on paper, or reversed out of coral.

On paper · Reversed

Logo usage

Two short lists.

Please do

Use the supplied SVG, at whatever size keeps the wordmark legible.

Leave clear space around the lockup — at least the height of the capital E on every side.

Put the coral wordmark on paper, white, or any light neutral background.

Use the single-colour version on dark, photographic or one-ink backgrounds.

Use the mark on its own once the name is already established nearby.

Please don't

Don't redraw, rotate, skew, outline or add a gradient, shadow or glow.

Don't change the proportions of the notch, or round its inner corner.

Don't recolour the wordmark into a colour that isn't in the palette below.

Don't set the coral mark on a coral or mid-tone background where it stops reading.

Don't combine the mark with another logo inside one lockup, or imply a partnership we haven't announced.

Colour

One warm family,
one accent, one green.

Coral is identity only — it is never an interaction colour. Each of the others means exactly one thing, everywhere.

Coral · #E8553A

Identity. The mark, the wordmark's period, the avatar. Never a button, never a link.

Ink · #1F1D1A

Text, and the inverse blocks punched out of the page. A warm near-black, never pure black.

Paper · #FBF9F5

The page ground. Warm off-white — the raised white of a card is what carries hierarchy.

Clay · #A94E30

The single interaction accent: focus, emphasis, the one highlighted phrase in a headline.

Sage · #3A6F57

Money and trust: charged amounts, live progress, granted permissions. It means settled and auditable, not “success”.

Line · #ECE7DD

Hairlines and dividers only. It is decoration, never a text colour.

Type

Three faces, three jobs.

All three are open-licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and we self-host them rather than loading them from anyone else's server.

Bricolage Grotesque
Display

Every headline and section title on elsedoes.com. Tight tracking at large sizes — editorial, not decorative.

Instrument Sans
Text and interface

Body copy, navigation, labels, buttons. Deliberately neutral: it should recede so the headline and the numbers do the talking.

Spline Sans Mono
Numbers

Every amount, duration and receipt line, with tabular figures on. Nothing that isn't a quantity may use it.

The name

It's written “Else”.

Capital E, then lower case
Else. Not ELSE, not else, not elSE. In running text it takes no full stop of its own — write “Else finished the report”, not “Else. finished the report”.
The period belongs to the wordmark
The coral square after the E-l-s-e is part of the drawn lockup — it's a graphic, not punctuation. Don't type it, don't recolour it, and don't drop it from the artwork.
No suffixes
The product is Else. Please don't append a category to make it clearer — no “Else AI”, no “Else app”, no “Else platform”. If context is needed, describe it in the sentence instead.
Where to find us
The site is elsedoes.com. We're @elsedoes on social. Please don't translate or transliterate the name.
Not sure?

Ask before you improvise.

Need a format that isn't here, or a use these rules don't cover? Write to us — we'd rather answer than see the mark redrawn.

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