rootmode Download

Brand

The mark, the colours, and how to use them. For press, partners, and anyone drawing rootmode.

The mark

A Conway glider — five cells, nothing else. It is the hacker emblem. The avatar is the glider on void. The wordmark does not go in the picture.

Glider on void
On void PNG · SVG
Glider on violet
On violet PNG · SVG
Glider on paper
On paper PNG · SVG

Colour

Three colours do the work. Violet is the only chroma. Click a card to copy the hex.

Violet is for the living thing — a button, a wash, the active state. Surfaces stay void or paper. On a dark UI the same violet lifts to light violet so it still reads. Ink is type on a light page.

Wordmark

rootmode
Decentralised AI Inference Network
Always lowercase. Never RootMode, Root Mode, or Rootmode.
Wordmark: Futura / Avenir Next, extra bold, tight tracking.
UI: the system sans on desktop; Avenir Next on the site.

Profile and banner

Profile is the glider only. Banner is void until the glider, then a violet wash to the top-right.

Do, and don’t

Do

  • Use the five-cell glider, this orientation, on a 4×4 grid.
  • Keep the avatar glider-only. Type lives on the banner or next to the mark, not inside it.
  • Let violet arrive as a wash — dark until the glider, then open toward the top-right.
  • Write rootmode in lowercase.

Don’t

  • Don’t recolour the mark mint, gold, or a rainbow. Violet is the chroma.
  • Don’t outline the cells, add a drop shadow, or extrude them.
  • Don’t rotate the glider off-grid or rearrange the five cells.
  • Don’t lock the wordmark into the profile picture.