This section states what you may and may not do with the material in this repository. It is deliberately explicit: a design system that is source-available without clear terms is a liability for everyone who touches it.
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Governance
Licensing, trademark, the pre-launch legal assessment, and per-asset provenance.
1 - Licensing
A split licence — brand assets are proprietary, code and tokens are MIT.
The repository carries two categories of intellectual property under
different terms. The full text is in
LICENSE.md;
this page summarises it.
Brand assets — proprietary, source-available
Everything representing the visual identity: logos, brand imagery, and the
design-system documents under brand/.
| Permitted | Download and view for personal reference, editorial reporting, or authorised partner use |
| Prohibited | Modification, derivative works, sale, or commercial use — including merchandise or software featuring these assets — without prior written consent |
| No impersonation | Use must not imply endorsement, affiliation, or ownership by anyone other than projectious.work |
Document templates under brand/templates/ fall under these same terms: they
embed brand identity (colours, fonts, tagline). You may use them as structural
reference for your own templates, but not redistribute them with projectious.work
branding intact.
Code, scripts, and tokens — MIT
Source code, automation scripts, and configuration files (.py, .js, .sh,
.json, .yaml) are MIT-licensed: use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and sell, provided the copyright and permission notice
travel with the software.
The design tokens — brand/tokens/ — are in
this category. The values are free to use; the marks are not.
What this means in practice
Do
Use the token files, the spacing scale, and the component measurements in your own work. Link to this documentation. Write about the brand editorially.
Don't
Ship the logo in your product, sell anything carrying the marks, or present modified brand assets as projectious.work’s.
For commercial inquiries or brand consent: info@projectious.work
2 - Trademark
Guidelines for referring to projectious.work and using its marks.
The names, logos, and icons associated with projectious.work are its
trademarks. Full text:
TRADEMARK.md.
Not permitted
- Using the logo as your own, or as part of your own logo.
- Using the brand name in a way that suggests partnership or official status without a signed agreement.
- Registering domain names, social handles, or app names that include the trademarks in a confusingly similar way.
Permitted
- Linking to the official website.
- Press articles or blog posts about the project.
- Technical documentation that refers to the tools.
These are nominative uses — referring to the thing by its name. They do not require permission, and they do not grant any broader licence.
When in doubt, ask
Unauthorised use of the trademarks may result in a request for removal. Contact info@projectious.work before shipping anything you are unsure about — asking first is always cheaper than a takedown.
3 - 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:
brand/html/projectious-legal-assessment.html.
Not legal advice
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 — Lucide | 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 served from Google Fonts. 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. Since the fonts are linked rather than bundled, no font binaries are redistributed by this repository.
Icons — Lucide
ISC License, functionally equivalent to MIT: free commercial use, modification, redistribution, sublicensing. No attribution required in product UI — only the notice retained in source. Over 1,400 icons, actively maintained, a fork of Feather with a broader community.
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.
4 - Asset provenance
Per-asset source, licence, and attribution status for every third-party dependency.
The authoritative inventory is
brand/PROVENANCE.md
in the repository. Check it before adding an asset or shipping collateral.
Fonts
Loaded at runtime from the Google Fonts CDN — no font files are bundled.
| Font | Licence | Attribution | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plus Jakarta Sans | SIL OFL 1.1 | Not required | Headings, display |
| Source Sans 3 | SIL OFL 1.1 | Not required | Body, UI |
| IBM Plex Mono | SIL OFL 1.1 | Not required | Code, data |
Icons and photography
Neither is bundled in this repository. Both are cleared for future use:
| Source | Licence | Attribution | Commercial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucide Icons | ISC | Not required in UI | Allowed |
| Unsplash | Unsplash License | Not required | Allowed |
| Pexels | Pexels License | Not required | Allowed |
Original work
All logo files, design tokens, document templates, and design-system documents are original work, © projectious.work, under the brand-asset terms in Licensing.
Review status
Last reviewed 2026-07-26: no unlicensed, sensitive, or third-party binary assets are committed to this repository. Every physically present file is original.
Adding a bundled asset
If you commit a third-party binary — a font file, an icon SVG, an image — add a
row to brand/PROVENANCE.md recording its individual source, licence, and
attribution requirement. Do not rely on the summary tables above.