Brand Bible · 2026-06-15
Politick.
Sri Lankan Parliament · Hansard Record

The chosen identity: Broadcast · Soft red. A non-partisan public record of parliament, made readable and verifiable — an identity built from the broadcast mark (the record, opened and transmitted to every citizen) in a restrained soft red on ink and beige.

The mark

Logo

The “Broadcast” mark — concentric arcs radiating from a single origin dot — with the engraved serif wordmark. Works as a wordmark, a compact lockup, and a favicon-scale mark.

Politick logo suite
Logo suite — wordmark, mark, lockups, favicon.
Colour

Palette

Black + beige as primary; a single soft-red accent. Red is muted a touch from the original vermilion so it carries no party charge; no green secondary (red+green imply value judgements). A brighter red is reserved only for alert states.

Paper #F6F3EC
Ink #1C2024
Soft red #B84A38
Muted #5C564E
Rule #D8D2C4

Ladder for reference: original vermilion #C5482Fsoft #B84A38 (chosen) → muted rust #A6553F. Alert-only red: a brighter shade, never used decoratively.

Typography & system

Identity board

An engraved newspaper-of-record serif for display, a clean sans for UI, and a tabular monospace for dates, counts and citations.

Identity board
Identity board — logo, palette, type specimen, motif, UI atoms.
Reusable pieces

Brand assets

The in-site kit: section dividers, a ~10-icon line set, the motif as pattern/texture, data-viz style, badges (provenance chip, AI-summary label, status pills), a social/citation card, MP portrait treatment, and reading marks.

Brand assets sheet
Design-system assets sheet.
In context

Key visual & applied page

Key visual
Key visual.
Applied home page
Identity applied to the home page.
Motif in motion

The dash & dot system

The broadcast rings become working UI: dividers between debate records, dotted leaders to source citations, activity dots, a sitting timeline, and a broadcast pulse on load/hover (calm, reduced-motion-aware).

Dash and dot UI patterns
Dash/dot UI patterns — see the motif note.
Patterns

Seamless tilings

The mark, made contiguous — true vector <pattern> tiles (reusable as CSS backgrounds, any scale, recolourable).

Wave tiling
Waves — svg
Fish-scale tiling
Scales (seigaiha) — svg
Concentric-circle tiling
Interlock — svg
How to use it

Principles