Eight Marks, One Board

Eight Marks, One Board

Produce ONE image: a logo presentation board. Follow every line below. Replace only the IDENTITY block; everything after it is fixed.

First — do you have the fields?

If any field below still has braces around it, stop and ask. Put all the questions in one short message, and show the example under each one so they can see the shape of a useful answer. Wait for the replies, then draw. Never fill a brace yourself: a value you invented is a value nobody asked for, and it will look exactly as considered as the ones they did give you.

Ask in whatever language they are writing to you in. Translate the questions and the examples; do not make someone read English to tell you what they want.

The examples are only examples. If someone answers a question, use their answer; never fall back to the example because you prefer it.

If the fields are already filled in, ignore this and carry on.

Identity — replace these four lines only

• Name: {the name — Latin, Chinese, or a bilingual pair} e.g. VIBARY
• Industry / direction: {three short phrases} e.g. vibe coding · UI creativity · AI-assisted programming tools
• Core concept: {one sentence — what it does, and for whom} e.g. a library you open and immediately understand how to build software with AI — it teaches by showing, not telling
• Keywords: {five or six words} e.g. animation, motion, beginner learning, AI coding, playful

The keywords are raw material, not decoration: every mark's shapes, metaphors and details must be built from them. Before generating, also name the three most obvious symbols this industry always uses — those are banned from every cell and listed in the footer.

The board

• Vertical 3:4. Ground painted a near-white — warm, opaque, never transparent, never pure white.
• 2 columns × 4 rows, eight cells. Each ROW is one construction family, in this order: geometry, letter, motion, emblem.
• Each cell is a horizontal lockup: the mark on the left, the name set on the right in a modern sans, with a small second line under it drawn from the industry field.
• Under each lockup, one light-grey caption: number, a vertical bar, then family · construction. Captions follow the name's primary language.
• Under the grid, one small grey footer line naming the excluded symbols, so the board shows they were considered.
• Generous, even spacing and large areas of empty ground. No frames, no cards, no dividers, no rules between cells.

Row 1 — geometry: the mark is built from shapes

• 01 · modular assembly — many flat primitives (squares, circles, triangles, half-rounds, bars) tiled into one abstract symbol that reads as something from the keywords. Four to six flat colours, hard edges, no two adjacent shapes the same colour. Reads as young, plural, civic.
• 02 · translucent layers — three or four large rounded blocks overlapping like panes, semi-transparent so every overlap makes a third colour. Pastel range, dark plain wordmark. Reads as friendly, layered, approachable.

Row 2 — letter: the mark is the name

• 03 · letterform cut — the initial geometricised: strokes broken, angled, recombined, the counter doing real work, one terminal carrying a small detail taken from the keywords. One two-stop gradient is permitted in this cell only. Reads as design-led, forward.
• 04 · wordmark, one move — the full name set clean in type, with exactly one drawn intervention: a ligature, a cut, or one letter redrawn as a glyph from the keywords. Single ink plus one accent on the intervention. Reads as confident, editorial.

Row 3 — motion: the mark implies time

• 05 · sequence ghosts — the symbol repeated in three staggered frames, earlier frames lighter, resolving into one solid endpoint. One hue ramp plus a single accent on the final frame. Reads as kinetic — moving while standing still.
• 06 · trajectory line — one unbroken stroke of constant weight tracing a path that rises, turns and returns, with a dot marking arrival. Single ink, or a two-hue stroke. Reads as continuous, guided.

Row 4 — emblem: the mark is contained

• 07 · counter-form — two solid shapes whose gap between them draws the actual symbol; the negative space is the mark. Single deep ink, nothing else. Reads as exact, patient, premium.
• 08 · year badge — a compact enclosure, circle or soft rectangle, holding a small geometric device, the name set around or beside it, and the year. Single ink plus one accent. Reads as official, earned.

Every cell must

• ✓ be flat vector: crisp edges, solid fills, painted ground
• ✓ survive at sixteen pixels
• ✓ differ from its row-mate in construction, not just in colour
• ✓ take its shapes from the keywords, never from the banned symbols
• ✓ sit at consistent optical size across the board

Never

• ✕ 3D, bevel, metal, glass, emboss
• ✕ glow, drop shadow, outer shadow, blur of any kind
• ✕ noise, grain, texture, atmosphere, tinted washes over the ground
• ✕ photography, mockups, scenes, signage, stationery, people, hands
• ✕ more than one gradient on the whole board (cell 03's)

The result

One clean page that reads as a brand consultancy's presentation board: modern, plural, professional, systematic — a proposal to argue over, not a mood board to admire.