Orphograph — brand guide

Orphograph is a Bitcoin-anchored notary that issues receipts proving a file existed at a specific moment, without the file itself ever leaving the customer's device.

2 · Name

Orphograph. One word. No hyphen. No camel case. Lowercase in prose unless leading a sentence. The possessive is "Orphograph's"; the plural is not used. The shorter institutional form used in the office's own voice is "the office".

3 · Establishment

Established 2026. The protocol source code, the verifier kit, and the first publicly addressable receipt are matters of public record.

4 · Colour palette

No additional accent colours are sanctioned. Greys and warm off-whites derived from the cream surface are acceptable for secondary type.

5 · Typography

A classical, book-weight serif is used throughout — EB Garamond is the reference. Any equivalent serif at regular or medium weight is an acceptable substitute. No third-party brand-font reference is used. Body copy is set at a comfortable reading measure with generous leading. Display weights and italic small caps are reserved for the opening line of a section.

6 · The seal

The institutional seal is the primary mark. It is supplied at 1254 by 1254 pixels with a transparent background and should be reproduced without modification. The seal may be placed on a cream or near-white surface; it should not be placed on a dark surface, recoloured, or composited with other glyphs. A display variant at 600 by 600 pixels is supplied for in-line editorial use.

7 · The lockup

The wordmark lockup combines the seal with the word "Orphograph" set in the institutional serif. It is supplied at 1736 by 906 pixels with a transparent background. Do not re-typeset the wordmark; use the supplied artwork.

8 · Acceptable use

Editorial illustration of articles that discuss Orphograph or its receipts.
Reference in reviews, comparisons, and academic work.
Reproduction at any size, provided clear space equal to one quarter of the mark's height is preserved on all sides.

9 · Unacceptable use

Recolouring the seal or the wordmark.
Re-typesetting the wordmark in a different face.
Placing the mark on a busy background that reduces legibility.
Implying an endorsement, partnership, or certification that has not been issued in writing by the office.
Use as a product mark on third-party goods or services.

10 · Voice

The office writes in an institutional register: plain, declarative, technical where precision requires it. The first person plural is avoided. Exclamation is avoided. The instrument is described in narrow terms — a cryptographic attestation of file existence by a moment in time — and is not claimed to be a legal opinion, a content-authenticity verdict, or a judgment about how a file was made.

11 · Licence

Protocol source code is published under the MIT licence and is available on the public source tree. The brand — name, seal, wordmark, lockup, voice, written copy, and the visual system described in this guide — is reserved. The brand is not part of the MIT-licensed code release.

12 · Contact

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Brand guide.

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