Legal assessment
Pre-launch clearance review of the name, mark, fonts, icons, and imagery sources.
A pre-launch review of the elements that carry legal risk. Source: the projectious.work legal assessment supplied with the prior system.
This is a design-side risk assessment, not a legal opinion, and it is not a registered-trademark search. Obtain professional advice before relying on it for a commercial launch.
Summary#
| # | Area | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Company name “projectious” | Low risk |
| 2 | Logo similarity — stencil peony bud | Low risk |
| 3 | Font licensing | Low risk |
| 4 | Icon library — Tabler | Low risk |
| 5 | Photography and imagery sources | Low risk |
| 6 | Other design elements | Low risk |
Fonts#
All three families are SIL Open Font License 1.1 and self-hosted as pinned Fontsource 5.3.0 WOFF2 subsets. OFL permits commercial use, embedding, and redistribution; it forbids selling the fonts on their own and requires that any derivative font use a different name. The licence texts ship beside the files.
Icons — Tabler#
MIT License: free commercial use, modification, redistribution, and sublicensing. The design system uses only Tabler’s outline set, overrides the native stroke to 1.5 px, and keeps the licence notice with any vendored subset.
Photography#
| Source | Licence | Cost | Attribution | Commercial | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unsplash | Unsplash License | Free | Not required | Allowed | No reselling as-is; no competing stock service |
| Pexels | Pexels License | Free | Not required | Allowed | No reselling; no implying endorsement |
Both permit free commercial use without attribution for website imagery, marketing, social posts, presentations, and blog posts. The binding restriction is that you may not compile the images into a competing stock service.
Colour#
Colours cannot be trademarked in the abstract — only in connection with specific
goods and services in specific contexts (Tiffany blue for jewellery being the
canonical example). The palette (#1d3352 midnight, #E05232 orange, #546a82
slate) uses common design colours and does not infringe any known colour
trademark in the IT consulting space.
Recommended actions before launch#
- Run a registered-trademark search in the operating jurisdictions.
- Keep the asset provenance inventory current as assets are added.
- Retain licence notices in source for all third-party dependencies.