Brand guide

The Olympia Tech brand

Logo, color, gradient, typography, and voice. This page is rendered from the same design tokens the site itself uses, so it never drifts from what you see in production.

Foundations

The thesis is the brand

Olympia Tech is opinionated tech-industry analysis: the signals, the implications, and where the opportunity is. The name and the mark carry that idea.

Olympia is the summit, the high vantage point you watch the industry from.

The mark reads three ways at once: a delta for change, a peak for the Olympus vantage point, and an upward arrow for momentum and the signal of what is next.

Principles: opinionated not neutral, signal over noise, decision-useful over comprehensive.

Color

Palette

Click any swatch to copy its hex. Tokens map one-to-one to the CSS variables in the codebase.

Brand

Neutrals

Gradient

The signature gradient

Magenta to indigo, reserved for large surfaces: hero bands, section headers, and key art. Never on the logo mark, badges, underlines, or other small UI — use a solid brand color there. Keep text legible by placing it on a solid container when needed.

115deg · #CC3399 → #363794 → #4831B0
background: linear-gradient(115deg, #CC3399 0%, #363794 52%, #4831B0 100%);

The family

On-brand variations for accents, kickers, and interactive surfaces. All are built from the five brand colors and stay color-to-color (never fading to white); pair them with white or near-white text.

Ember

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115° · #FF832F → #CC3399 → #4831B0

Warm and energetic. Editorial accents, kickers, article headers.

Aurora

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115° · #CC3399 → #6366F1

Vibrant two-stop. Buttons, highlights, badges on dark.

Deep

.grad-deep

150° · #CC3399 → #4831B0 → #17123F

Premium and moody. White-text headers, cards, key art.

Eclipse

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near-black → indigo, magenta glow

Dark-first. Callout panels and dark sections with white text.

Typography

Type scale

Poppins for display and headings, Inter for body and UI. Live specimens, not screenshots.

The signals reshaping tech.

Display

Poppins Bold · up to 72px

Choose your ascent

Heading 1

Poppins Bold · 36px

Latest analysis

Heading 2

Poppins SemiBold · 24px

Opinionated analysis of the high-impact shifts in tech.

Body large

Inter Regular · 18px

We track the signals, the implications, and where the opportunity is.

Body

Inter Regular · 16px

Alt. 2,917 m · The Summit

Eyebrow / label

Inter SemiBold · uppercase · tracked

Voice & tone

How we sound

The voice is the moat. Opinionated, but earned.

  • Opinionated by default, but earn it: every piece states a clear thesis, then shows the work.
  • Analyst voice, not pundit voice: confident and direct, but precise about uncertainty.
  • Signals, then implications, then opportunities: name the event, reason the consequences, surface the move.
  • Credible, not corporate; sharp, not snarky. Argue against ideas, not people.
  • Plain, modern, jargon-aware language. No hype, no doomerism, and no em dashes.

Do

"The carve-outs, not the headline, are where this rule actually bites. Here is who should care."

Don't

"This game-changing, revolutionary breakthrough will disrupt everything as we know it."

Downloads

Assets

Vector files for every variant. More raster sizes live in /public/brand.

Explorations

Design explorations

Standalone studies used to review and pick component designs before they ship. Working artifacts, not production pages, they open in a new tab.