Gridline · The Brand

identity, guidelines, templates and every asset · prepared by Tandem · Sep 2026
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Gridline Development, primary lockup

One idea: the node on the grid.
The point where land meets power.

  • Near-black and paper carry the brand. #061120 and #F4F2ED. Blue is a cast in the black, never a panel color.
  • Amber is scarce, like the dot: #F8B135, once per view.
  • Archivo in caps for headlines and labels, IBM Plex Sans for reading, IBM Plex Mono for every figure.
  • Plain words. Lead with the fact. Claim only what is secured.

01 · Identity

Six logos, one system

A · Refined is the primary lockup. E · Monogram is the icon. F · Survey is for print. B, C and D are alternates. Compare all six live in the client review site.

A Refined on dark
A Refined on light
A · Refined
The primary lockup. Web, decks, signage.
E Monogram on dark
E Monogram on light
E · Monogram
The icon: favicons, app tiles, avatars. An app-icon export is included.
F Survey on dark
F Survey on light
F · Survey
The stacked version for print and county documents.
B Interior on dark
B Interior on light
B · Interior
Alternate, still on the table.
C Interconnect on dark
C Interconnect on light
C · Interconnect
Alternate, still on the table.
D Crosshair on dark
D Crosshair on light
D · Crosshair
Alternate, still on the table.

All 52 logo files, every variant and colorway, are in the full package download below, with an overview sheet.

02 · Color

The palette

Verbatim from tokens.json. Click any swatch to copy its hex.

The navy ground

The paper ground

The node, the wires, the parcels

03 · Typography

Three faces, three jobs

Archivo in caps for headlines and labels, IBM Plex Sans for reading, IBM Plex Mono for every figure. Free under the SIL Open Font License; this page is set in them.

Archivo · headlines & labels · always caps

Power before land.
Land before the crowd.

IBM Plex Sans · reading text · sentence case

Gridline secures interconnection first, then assembles the ground under it. A site is not the acreage. It is the megawatts the wire can carry, the districts that permit the use, and the months between filing and energisation.

IBM Plex Mono · every figure · tabular

SITE 04 · TWIGGS CO, GA  |  500 kV @ 2.8 mi  |  740 MW withdrawal  |  32.71°N 83.42°W

StyleFaceSize / lineWeight · caseUsed for
page-titleArchivo28 / 32700 · CAPS, −0.5%One per screen
section-titleArchivo20 / 24700 · CAPSGroups of panels, dialog titles
panel-titleArchivo13 / 20600 · CAPS, +6%Panel and card headers
labelArchivo11 / 16500 · CAPS, +16%Field labels, table headers, stat labels
buttonArchivo12 / 16600 · CAPS, +16%Buttons, tabs, text CTAs
statArchivo32 / 36600KPI figures; units smaller, same style
bodyPlex Sans16 / 26400Reading text, 64 characters a line
uiPlex Sans14 / 20400Controls, table cells, navigation. The app default
dataPlex Mono13 / 20400 · +4%Figures in tables, coordinates, IDs
data-smPlex Mono11 / 16400 · CAPS, +8%Map labels, chips, timestamps, meta

04 · Imagery

The terrain

The contour terrain stands in wherever a photo would go, and it can stay: it is the brand. Full-resolution and title-slide variants are in the package.

Gridline terrain illustration
The terrain, web size. Also in the package: 2400 px · shaded-left for titles · portrait crop
Terrain, portrait crop
The portrait crop, for social and one-pagers.
Grant Tallon
Grant Tallontitle tbc
Jesse Bentley
Jesse Bentleytitle tbc

05 · The website

The landing page, live

The one-page site ships as a single HTML file, previewed here live. The client review copy switches between all six logos.

vantage.tandem.bi/site/

Placeholders still standing before anything goes public: the four headline figures (6,400+ acres · 1,850 MW · 3 markets · 75+ years), team titles and bios, the contact email and LinkedIn URL, the form endpoint, and the site names in the deck and app guide. Each is marked where it appears.

06 · Downloads

Take the files

Everything on this page and more. Start with the brand book PDF.

The whole package
All eight folders in one zip: logos, guidelines, PowerPoint, website, app kit, fonts, imagery, design-system source.
ZIP · 10.6 MB · v1.1 · Sep 2026
Brand guidelines
The brand book, 23 pages: logo, color, type, topography and gridlines, imagery, motion, layout, voice.
PDF · 2.6 MB
PowerPoint
25 example slides, a blank for every layout, and a .potx that opens as a new deck. Install the three Google fonts first.
PPTX + POTX · 4.7 MB
Fonts
Archivo, IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono as WOFF2, with their SIL OFL licenses. For Office and design tools, install the desktop versions from Google Fonts.
WOFF2 · 221 KB
Logos, all of them
Six variants × four colorways × three formats (SVG, transparent PNG, PNG on ground), plus the one-sheet overview.
52 FILES · 2.9 MB

The package README with the folder-by-folder guide is here.