Brand guidelines for Syrup Studio. The signature, the mark, colour, type and every file you need, in one place.
Use them so anything with our name on it looks like it came from the studio.
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If you need a file that isn’t here, or you’re not sure something fits the brand, email the studio and we’ll help.
Email the studioIntroduction
Syrup Studio is a product team in Brisbane. We design, build and launch software for startups, and we sign our work the way a person would: in pen.
- Name
- Syrup Studio. Just “Syrup” once you’ve said it once.
- Website
- syrup.dev
- Based
- Brisbane, Australia
- Voice
- Plain, warm and specific. We say “we”.
- Look
- Light pages, one blue pen, real screens.
Strategy
One idea, said the same way everywhere: we’re the product team you hire by the month.
The product team you hire by the month.
We ship to your product every week.
We deliver best-in-class digital solutions.
- Big plain sentences, one idea each.
- Facts before adjectives: what ships, how often, what it costs.
- End on one thing to do, usually “Book a call”.
Logo
The pen signature is the logo. The bottle mark on its blue tile stands in wherever there’s only room for a square.
- Keep the signature at least 120px wide on screen and 30mm in print, so the strokes hold together.
- Pen blue, white or ink only. No gradients, outlines or shadows on the signature.
- Never stretch, rotate, retrace or retype it.
- Set it on white, pen or ink, not on busy photos.
Typography
Helvetica Neue for the big sentences, Rethink Sans inside the site, and Switzer Light for client names.
Helvetica Neue
The home page and statements, Regular 400. Sentences 26–44px, titles 26/29, small text 16/24.
Rethink Sans
Inner pages and sheets, Regular 400. Medium 500 only on buttons and nav.
Switzer Light
Client names, set as text instead of logos: Cap, Efferd, Thrive House.
Colour
White paper, dark ink and one blue pen. The blue marks moments; it never fills a whole page.
- Pen#3F66B9The signature, app tiles, the one accent
- Pen light#7C9CE6Top of the tile gradient
- Pen deep#2B4891Bottom of the tile gradient
- Ink#1A1A18The bottle mark, dark surfaces
- Title#1C1C1CStatements and names
- Text#5C5C5CSmall text, quiet sentences
- Line#E5E5E1Hairlines between rows
- Paper#FFFFFFEvery page
- Paper 2#F6F6F3Panels behind screens
- Chip red#E2364DThe calendar chip, nowhere else
Images
Real screens from real products, set on soft grey panels. No stock photos and no device mockups.


- Show the actual product, at its real size where you can.
- Panels are Paper 2 with 22px corners.
- Founders appear as round portraits, and only with their OK.
Icons
Every product gets an app tile: a smooth-cornered square, a top-lit gradient and a white glyph.
Syrup ships to your product every week
- Continuous corners (a 22.37% radius with 60% smoothing), never a plain rounded square.
- The glyph fills the middle 60% of the tile.
- The gradient runs light at the top to deep at the bottom.
Resources
Every file is drawn from the site’s own artwork. Use these rather than screenshots.
- Signature, penSVGDownload
- Signature, whiteSVGDownload
- Signature, whitePNG · 1200 × 560Download
- Signature, white squarePNG · 1024 × 1024Download
- Bottle mark, inkSVGDownload
- Bottle mark, whiteSVGDownload
- App tile avatarPNG · 800 × 800Download
- X headerPNG · 3000 × 1000Download
- Share imagePNG · 1200 × 630Download