# 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.

{{% callout title="Not legal advice" type="warning" %}}
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.
{{% /callout %}}

## 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 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 — 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](/docs/governance/provenance/)
  current as assets are added.
- Retain licence notices in source for all third-party dependencies.


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Source: https://projectious-work.github.io/brand/v3.0.0/docs/governance/legal-assessment/index.md