Xhinola · House edition

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dot+, read through the Form + Dot house standard. The original brand book still governs dot+ in full — this page just shows where it sits in the Xhinola system it helped define.

Form
Rounded square
Dot
Solid · lower-left
Accent
#E11900
Type
Inter · JetBrains Mono

The mark, by the house rule

One form, one offset dot. dot+ claims the rounded square with a solid disc in the lower-left — the disc sits on the baseline like a literal period. Same grammar as SAM; opposite choices on every variable.

Part 1 · Icon
The dot

Solid disc, lower-left of a rounded square. Scales down to the favicon where letters can't survive.

Form: square · Dot: solid, lower-left
Part 2 · Wordmark
.plus

Inter Black, tight tracking, the leading dot drawn as a separate disc — the same disc, promoted to a letter.

plus
Pronounced "dot plus"
Part 3 · States
Mono +1

The disc recolors for live moments: red while recording, blue for AI. The mark is the indicator.

rec #E11900 · ai #276EF1
In house terms, dot+'s "states" are its version of SAM's tenant reveal: the dot is the one element that takes color, and only for a reason. Everywhere else the mark is two flat tones.

Construction

Rounded square at a 22% corner radius; the disc is 28% of the width, sitting on the baseline in the lower-left quadrant. Clear space equals the disc diameter on all sides.

ø 28%
y 73%
r 22%
on dark
on light
recording
chrome

Color & sizing

Monochrome by rule — pure #000000 + #FFFFFF in the mark. One accent, #E11900, lives only in the disc during capture. The icon is tuned to read down to 16px.

96
64
44
32
20
16 · min

Do / don't

Do

Disc on the baseline, lower-left. Always ink-on-paper or paper-on-ink.

Don't

Never gradient the canvas. Two flat colors, no bevels or glows.

Don't

Don't round the square into a circle — that's SAM's form, not dot+'s.

In the house. dot+ = square · lower-left · solid · red. SAM = circle · upper-left · open · mono. Two products, one grammar — see the Xhinola · Form + Dot house standard for the full registry.

iOS surfaces

dot+ is a capture app, so its brand lives in motion — on the lock screen, in the Dynamic Island, in a notification. The rule holds everywhere: the square-and-disc icon stays two-tone, and the disc turns red only while recording, blue only for AI. The mark is the status light.

12:04
Monday, June 29
9:41
Recording
Board sync · auto-transcribing
12:04
Lock screen · Live Activity, quick-record + transcription progress
12:04
.plusRECENT
Board synclive · 12:04
1:1 — Mayatranscript ✓
Standup9m ago
.plus
Recordtap to start
Home screen · medium + small widgets
Across every surface the disc carries state — red = recording, blue = AI — and nothing else takes color. Accessory (lock-screen) widgets are monochrome by platform rule, so the mark already fits: it's drawn in white and the system tints it.
dot+ · Form + Dot · House Edition Xhinola · Confidential · originals unchanged