The mark

Four round a table, seen from above, and one of them is yours. A conference is not a picture of faces — it is people arranged around something, and the arrangement is the whole meaning. The table is the largest thing in it, because the table is the meeting.

Every size it has to work at

Judged here, on both grounds. Anything that fails at 16px is not a mark, whatever it looks like at 96.

180px
96px
64px
48px
32px
24px
16px
180px
96px
64px
48px
32px
24px
16px

Without the plate

For a dark surface that supplies its own ground.

96px
48px
32px

Colours

Two, and a white plate. The amber is the seat that is yours.

Amber #e8992e
Slate #2c333d
Plate #ffffff

Files

All generated from one definition, so they cannot drift apart.

pixroy-mark.svgthe mark, and the favicon · SVGapple-icon.png180px, home screen · PNGopengraph-image1200×630 social card · PNG

Every candidate

Fifty marks, numbered, each at 96px and again at 24, and then all fifty again on a light ground. If none of what shipped is right, pick numbers off that page.

See all fifty →

What did not survive

Nine other ideas were drawn. These are the ones worth remembering, with the reason each one failed, so nobody spends the rounds finding them again.

Voxel P

A letterform that could belong to anything. The first version's bowl was open and it read as an F.

Two bubbles

The cleanest of the lot, and the mark every chat app on earth already has. Unownable.

Three circles

Correct, legible and inert. A picture of people sitting down, not of them disagreeing.

The slap

The right joke, too quietly told. The tilt does not read and the sparks turn to noise below 48px.

Negative space

The most striking thing drawn, at 96px. Mud at 16.

Three, one turned

Busts turned toward each other. Better than the circles, but a turn is a small thing and it disappears the moment the mark does.

The pair, no table

Two generic avatars the moment the boardroom left.