All workInfix System

A Logo That Hides a Connector Inside the Name

Server infrastructure is invisible until it breaks, which leaves the brand doing all the talking. The mark puts a network connector where the crossbar of the F should be.

Infix System logo on a backlit signage mockup in indigo and violet
Client
Infix System
Sector
Digital services and server infrastructure
Discipline
Graphic design

The brief

Infix System sells digital services, server management, and infrastructure. The work is invisible by design: when it is done well nothing happens, and nobody notices the thing they are paying for. That leaves the brand carrying an unusually heavy load, because it is the only part of the service a prospect can actually see before they buy.

The category is also visually exhausted. Search any hosting or managed services competitor and you get the same blue, the same circuit board, the same abstract swoosh. Being memorable here does not require being loud. It requires not being the fourth identical blue logo in a procurement shortlist.

The decisions

  1. 01

    Put the idea inside the name

    The crossbar of the F is replaced by a two node connector, so the wordmark reads INFIX and shows a link between systems at the same time. A separate icon sitting next to a wordmark is two things to remember; this is one.

  2. 02

    Indigo, not the category's blue

    A deep navy base (#131a3d) with indigo (#4a4dc9) and a lighter violet (#a379c9) running as a gradient through the connector. Close enough to the technical register to be credible, far enough from default blue to be told apart in a list of suppliers.

  3. 03

    PaveIt for the mark, Inter for everything else

    The logotype is set in PaveIt, geometric and slightly engineered. Everything else runs on Inter across four weights. Inter is a screen typeface, and every surface this company owns is a screen.

  4. 04

    Designed at both extremes first

    The connector element was tested as a rounded app icon and as backlit signage before anything else was drawn. A mark that only works at presentation size is a mark that fails on the favicon, which is where most people will actually meet it.

  5. 05

    Proved on things people hold

    Business cards with a scannable code, a machined badge, a watch face, and apparel. Infrastructure companies win work through relationships, so the identity had to survive being handed over and worn.

What was delivered

Logo designBrand identity systemApp and product assetsStationery and merchandise

The set

Infix System primary logo, the word INFIX with a connector forming the crossbar of the F
The primary wordmark. Read it quickly and it says INFIX; read it slowly and the F is a connection.
Construction diagram of the Infix System logo showing the wordmark plus the connector glyph, set in PaveIt
How it is built: wordmark, plus connector, set in PaveIt. Written down so the logo can be rebuilt correctly later.
Infix System colour palette showing hex values 131a3d, 4a4dc9, a379c9 and white with a gradient
Four colours and one gradient, with hex values. Deliberately not the category's default blue.
Infix System typography specimen showing Inter in Light, Regular, Medium and Extra Bold
Inter in four weights. One family with a real range beats a clever pairing nobody maintains.
Infix System app icon using the connector mark on a violet rounded square
The icon test. If the idea does not survive a rounded square, the idea is too complicated.
Infix System business cards in navy and white with a QR code
Cards in both directions of the palette, dark and light, so the system works either way round.
Infix System circular badge mockup with the logo in a ring lockup
The circular lockup, on an object where the horizontal logo would have been unreadable.
Infix System mark shown as a smartwatch face
Small, round, and still legible. The hardest surface in the set.
Infix System branded t-shirt using the connector mark
Apparel, because an infrastructure team turns up on client sites and is walking signage while they are there.

What we are not claiming: no engagement or revenue figures, because we cannot show you a source for them on this engagement. Judge this on the work and on whether the set holds together as one brand. Why we work that way.

The service behind this

Graphic Design

Brand identities, pitch decks, social kits, and print built as a system rather than a one off file. Editable source delivered, IP assigned on payment.

What this includes

The thinking behind it

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