Brand Guidelines
Construction ERP · Built for Saudi Arabia
01 — The idea
Project Vision is the operating system for small construction contractors in Saudi Arabia. It replaces the scattered WhatsApp threads, phone calls, and paper that most jobs run on today with a single place to plan work, track site attendance, manage documents, and issue ZATCA-compliant invoices — in Arabic and English.
The brand has to earn the trust of a site engineer, not impress a boardroom. So it behaves like the best person on a job: precise, grounded, and straight-talking. Every choice — the drafting-paper surface, the structural mark, the single high-visibility accent — comes from the world of plans, levels, and survey markers, not from generic startup polish.
Who it's for
Small Saudi contractors replacing WhatsApp, phone, and paper.
What it feels like
A dependable site engineer — exact and no-nonsense, never corporate-cold.
Where it's built for
Arabic-first and RTL, ZATCA e-invoicing, geo-tagged attendance, PDPL.
02 — The mark
The mark is a V — for Vision, and for structure. Two faceted blades, read as beams or plumb-lines, converge to a single point: the single source of truth that Project Vision gives a job.
Fixed at that point is an amber diamond — the project itself: the valuable thing being built, the cornerstone. It attaches directly to the V, with no link or cord, because in Project Vision the work and the record are one and the same.
Amber is the one warm, human signal in an otherwise engineered system — the surveyor’s marker, the bubble in a level, hi-vis on site.
03 — Construction & variants
Display mark
Faceted cut. Use at large sizes — covers, hero areas, print.
Compact mark
Flat cut. Use small — app bars, favicons, anywhere under ~32 px.
Reversed
On charcoal or photography. Blades go light; the gem stays amber.
Clear space
Keep clear space around the mark equal to the height of the diamond on all sides. Nothing — type, edges, other logos — enters this zone.
Minimum size
Below these sizes, switch to the compact mark and drop the wordmark before legibility breaks.
04 — Lockup & misuse
Don’t
Recolour the blades
Rotate or tilt
Stretch or distort
Place on a busy / low-contrast colour
Also avoid: re-spacing the wordmark, swapping the typeface, adding effects (shadows, gradients, outlines), re-drawing the gem, or boxing the mark in a shape that isn’t part of the system.
05 — Colour
Balance
Roughly 60 / 30 / 10 — limestone, charcoal, amber. Amber never dominates; it directs the eye.
06 — Typography
Archivo
Wordmark only
SemiBold
IBM Plex Sans
Product UI & headings
Regular · SemiBold · Bold
IBM Plex Sans Arabic
RTL companion
Regular · SemiBold
IBM Plex Mono
Figures, IDs & labels
Regular · Medium
07 — Iconography
Style
Single-weight outline, ~1.8 px stroke, round caps and joins. Geometric, never illustrative.
Colour
Charcoal by default; amber only to mark an active or alert state.
Grid
Drawn in a 24 px box with a 2 px keyline margin, so weights stay even across the set.
Amber picks out the one icon that needs attention.
08 — Pattern
Site grid
A drafting grid with amber survey points. Quiet enough for full backgrounds — section fills, covers, large empty areas.
Diamond lattice
The gem, repeated. Higher energy — use on charcoal for edges, banners, dividers, packaging and social end-cards.
Both patterns are built only from existing brand parts — the hairline grid and the diamond — so they always feel of-a-piece. Keep them as texture, behind or beside content, never competing with the mark.
09 — Illustration
The asset
On site
What gets built
10 — Applications
App icon
Compact mark on charcoal, rounded square. Reads at any size on a home screen.
Favicon
The same mark, tightened, shipped as a multi-size .ico down to 16 px.
Social / OG card
Limestone, lockup top-left, one bold line. The amber falls on the phrase that matters.
11 — Voice
We are
Clear · grounded · exact · bilingual · respectful of the trade
We’re not
Hype-driven · jargon-heavy · cute · corporate · vague
Say what the contractor needs in the fewest words — in their language. If a sentence wouldn’t survive being read out on a noisy site, cut it.