Brand Guidelines · v1.0 · May 2026

plus brand identity

A complete logo system for dot+ — meeting intelligence for professionals. Three marks, one rule: a solid disc represents the "dot." This document tells you exactly how to use each piece.

Owner Xhinola Designer Rodrigo Arvizu License Internal · confidential Issued May 18, 2026
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The system
Three marks, each with a job. Choose the right one for the surface — never substitute.
Part 1 · Icon

The dot. Solid disc in the lower-left of a rounded square. The most distinctive silhouette in any app-icon grid. Survives 16pt.

Part 2 · Wordmark
plus

.plus. Inter Black with the leading dot as a separate disc — never a typed period. Pronounceable as "dot plus".

Part 3 · Monogram
d

d⁺. Lowercase d with the + as superscript and a dot detail near the ascender. For tight spaces where a letterform reads better.

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Principles
Four rules that govern every mark, every layout, every variant.
01 · The disc is sacred

Wherever you see a perfect solid circle in our brand, it represents the "dot." Never replace it with a hollow ring, a pixel, a star, or any other mark. The disc is the connective tissue of the system.

02 · Monochrome first

Black on white, white on black. Color variants exist for state semantics (positive / info) but the default is always monochrome. If a designer reaches for color without a reason, they're solving the wrong problem.

03 · Geometric, not typeset

The wordmark uses Inter Black but the leading dot is not a period — it's a separately-positioned disc that aligns to the x-height. This distinction is what makes the wordmark ownable instead of typed.

04 · Function over flourish

No gradients. No drop shadows. No outline strokes. No 3D. No glow. No animation that isn't functional. The brand reflects the product: dense, deliberate, no decoration.

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The icon
A solid disc placed in the lower-left of a rounded square canvas. Bottom-left because that's where a period sits in a paragraph — it's a literal dot.
Anatomy
CANVAS · 1× UNIT
DISC · 0.32×
RADIUS · 0.225×
INSET · 0.18× FROM BOTTOM-LEFT
Clear space — never less than 1× the disc on every side
1× CLEAR SPACE
Scale — minimum is 16pt at 1× / 24pt for app icon contexts
120pt
80pt
60pt
40pt
24pt · MIN APP
16pt · ABS MIN
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The wordmark
.plus set in Inter Black at -3 letter-spacing. The leading dot is a separately-positioned disc — not the typed glyph. Always.
Scale
plus plus plus plus plus
Specifications
Type

Inter Black (900) · letter-spacing −0.04em · color matches the surface's primary content token

Leading dot

Disc · diameter 0.17× the type size · positioned at the lowercase x-height baseline · gap of 0.06× before the "p"

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The monogram
For favicons, watch faces, social avatars, in-app brand chips — anywhere the icon is too abstract but the wordmark is too long.
Scale
d200pt
d120pt
d72pt
Anatomy
The monogram has three parts: the d (Inter Black lowercase), the + (a small cross composed of two equal strokes, 0.5× the d's x-height), and the dot (a small disc anchored to the lower-right of the +). The disc is non-negotiable — it's what carries the brand DNA from the icon.
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Lockups
When you need both the icon and the wordmark together — splash screens, app store listings, marketing headers.
Horizontal lockup
plus

GAP · 1× ICON WIDTH · ICON HEIGHT MATCHES WORDMARK CAP-HEIGHT

Vertical lockup
plus

GAP · 0.5× ICON HEIGHT · WORDMARK SIZE · 0.4× ICON HEIGHT

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Color variants
Monochrome is the default. Tinted variants exist for state-specific contexts only — never for decoration.
Mono · Default
Light on dark
Mono · Inverse
Dark on light
Info · #276EF1
Loading, syncing, AI
Positive · #05944F
Success, completed
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Do & don't
The most common mistakes — and how to spot them in someone else's deck.
Do

Use the disc as designed — bottom-left, 0.32× the canvas, on a clean surface.

Don't center the dot

Centering kills the "period" reference. It also makes the icon look like every other app.

Don't outline the disc

The disc must always be solid. An outline reads as "ring," which is a different mark entirely.

Don't gradient the canvas

No gradients, no glow, no glass effects. Monochrome surfaces or a single semantic color — that's the entire palette.

.plus
Don't type the dot

A typed period (.) is too small and not on the x-height baseline. The leading dot must be a separately-positioned disc.

plus
Don't lighten the weight

The wordmark only works at Inter Black (900). Lighter weights lose the punch and read as body text.

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Motion
One animation: the splash. The disc enters from the left and snaps into place, like a period at the end of a sentence. Used on app launch only.
Splash sequence — loops in this preview
plus
Meeting intelligence
Specs

Frame 1 (0ms): Icon canvas at 85% scale, disc invisible (translated left, scale 0).

Frame 2 (240ms): Canvas scales to 100%. Disc translates in from the left and overshoots to 115%.

Frame 3 (560ms): Disc settles at 100%. Period reference complete.

Frame 4 (600ms): Wordmark fades up.

Frame 5 (900ms): Tagline fades up.

EASING · cubic-bezier(.2, .7, .3, 1) · TOTAL · 1.6s

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In context
Real surfaces where the system has to live and prove itself.
Home screen
9:41●● ▮
Mail
Phone
Notes
dot+
Music
Maps
Photos
Safari
Splash
plus
Meeting intelligence
Favicon · 32px
dot+ · meetings
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Voice & tone
Brevity over breadth. Precision over politeness. Verbs over adjectives.
"How do we describe what dot+ does?"

Yes: Meeting intelligence for professionals. Records, transcribes, summarizes — local-first, no compromises.

No: The revolutionary AI-powered meeting assistant that transforms how you collaborate ✨🚀

"What's our tone?"

Yes: Confident, factual, lowercase. Sentence-case headers. Period at the end. We respect the reader's time.

No: Title-Case Everything Like A Press Release. ALL-CAPS for urgency. Exclamation marks!

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Assets
SVG files for every mark and variant — saved into the project's brand/svg/ folder.
Icon · 1024×1024 SVG
App icon, dock, favicon. Four variants for different surface contexts.
Wordmark · vector SVG
Inter Black with leading disc. Two color variants.
Monogram & lockup · vector SVG
Letterform monogram for tight spaces, and the horizontal lockup.