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Stringfellow Brand Sheet

Identity  ·  Exploration

SCG.

Six directions for a stylised S-C-G monogram in a clean wordmark style. The crown and line elements from the current mark are gone — they read as decorative, and the new positioning is anything but.

The approach

All six concepts use the same underlying letterforms: geometric S, C, and G built from straight segments with 45° cut corners, at a single uniform stroke weight.

The chamfer is doing real work. It reads as cut steel and as technical drafting at the same time, which is exactly where this business sits. It also means the letters are drawn as paths rather than set in a typeface — the mark never depends on a font being installed, licensed, or loaded, and it will reproduce identically on a business card, a truck door, and a report cover.

What changes between concepts is the container and the supporting structure, not the letters. That keeps the family coherent whichever one Jesye picks.

Concepts

Six directions.

01

Plate

Initials knocked out of a solid chamfered block. Reads as a fabricated steel plate or a stamped inspection tag. Strongest at small sizes and the only concept that works as an app icon or profile picture without modification.

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02

Stack

Three rows divided by hairline rules — a legend block, or a spec label on a drawing. Vertical proportion makes it awkward in a website header but excellent on a report cover, a door, or the spine of a bound document.

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03

Rule

The mark dimensions itself. A true dimension line — extension ticks and arrowheads — runs beneath the initials. The most literal expression of "we measure and document," and it ties directly to the dividers used across the site.

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04

Bracket

Registration marks framing the initials, like crop marks on a print sheet or corner brackets on a detail callout. Elegant and quiet. The brackets are the first thing to disappear at small sizes, so it needs a simplified variant for favicons.

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05

Chamfer

The letterforms with nothing around them, run heavier and tighter. No container, no accent, no supporting device. The most confident option and the most flexible — it will sit on anything. Also the easiest to overlook.

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06

Column

A structural rule anchoring the initials — a plumb line, a column, a margin bar. Works beautifully as a letterhead and email-signature mark where the vertical can align to the page edge. Weakest as a standalone icon.

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Recommendation

01 Plate, with 05 Chamfer as the wordmark.

Use them as a pair. Plate is the icon — the thing that survives at 32 pixels on a phone, on a truck door at forty feet, and as a favicon. Chamfer is the horizontal wordmark for letterheads, report covers, and email signatures.

They share identical letterforms, so nothing has to be redrawn and nothing drifts out of sync. If Jesye wants more warmth, 03 Rule is the alternate — it says "we measure things" more explicitly, at the cost of some legibility below about 40px.

Ink  ·  Bone  ·  Amber — all three reproduce in one colour

Lockups

How it sits with the name.

Two lockups cover everything. Horizontal for headers, signatures, and anywhere wide; stacked for square formats, covers, and merchandise.

Stringfellow Construction Group LLC
A

Horizontal

Site header, email signature, letterhead, invoice. Minimum mark height 32px.

Stringfellow Construction Group LLC
B

Stacked

Social avatars, report covers, yard signs, shirts. Minimum mark height 40px.

Colour

Two surfaces and one accent.

The system alternates between ink — the field — and bone — the document. Amber is the only accent and it is used deliberately: hazard orange earns attention precisely because it is rationed.

Ink#0B0B0CBase surface
Ink Raised#141417Alternating bands
Line#2B2B31Hairlines on ink
Bone#E8E4DADocument surface
Bone Line#C6C0B2Hairlines on paper
Amber#FF5A14Accent — use sparingly
Rule of thumb If more than about one-twentieth of a layout is amber, it has stopped being an accent and started being a background. Pull it back.

Typography

Expanded, not condensed.

Every construction company in America uses a condensed grotesk. Archivo pushed to its expanded width does the opposite — it reads modern and technical rather than rugged, which is the correct register for a consulting practice.

Display
Archivo
Width 116 · Weight 800
Uppercase · −0.022em

Hire the expertise

Section heading
Archivo
Width 112 · Weight 750
Uppercase · −0.015em

Four ways to work together

Body
Archivo
Width 100 · Weight 400
Sentence case · 1.62 line height

You are not paying for hours. You are paying to reduce risk, prevent expensive mistakes, and make a better decision than you would have made alone. A two-hour consultation that catches a $14,000 omission has returned its cost many times over.

Data & labels
JetBrains Mono
Weight 500
Uppercase · 0.16em · Tabular

Tier 01 · Investment · Deliverables

$227   $997   $1,997   $3,500

Why monospace for numbers Tabular figures line up in columns. On a site where the entire argument is "we publish our prices," the prices should look like they came off a schedule, not out of a brochure.

Usage

Clear space, minimum sizes, and what not to do.

Clear space

Keep a margin equal to the height of the letterforms on all four sides. The dashed line below marks the boundary — nothing crosses it, including page edges, photographs, and other logos.

Minimum sizes

Below these, the letterforms close up and the chamfers stop reading. Use the favicon variant instead, which is drawn heavier for exactly this reason.

88px — comfortable
48px — minimum
32px — favicon variant

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Don't.

The mark is simple enough that most damage comes from adding to it.

  • Don't reintroduce the crown or the line elements from the previous mark.
  • Don't add a drop shadow, bevel, outline, or gradient. The chamfer is the dimension.
  • Don't stretch, condense, or rotate the letterforms — the widths are drawn, not typed.
  • Don't set the mark in amber on top of amber, or ink on top of ink. It needs the contrast.
  • Don't place it over a photograph without a solid plate behind it.
  • Don't recreate it by typing S, C, G in a typeface. Use the supplied files.
  • Don't round the corners. There is no border-radius anywhere in this identity.

Next step

Pick one and it gets refined.

Once Jesye chooses a direction, it gets tightened, outlined properly, and delivered as a full asset pack — SVG, PNG at several sizes, one-colour and reversed variants, favicon set, and social avatar crops.