Legal assessment
A pre-launch review of the elements that carry legal risk. Source:
brand/html/projectious-legal-assessment.html.
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.