Brand

How we look
and sound.

A rooted tree, a gold seal, and a quiet serif. The brand should feel like the room we keep — grounded, unhurried, and built for people who serve others.

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The Leadership Exchange badge

The marks

Badge, lockup, logomark, and wordmark — in color, dark, light, and outline.

SVG is for screens. PNG is the @2x raster. PDF is CMYK for print. Preview each file on the field it was made for. Never redraw the leaves.

Badge

TLE-Badge-Color

TLE-Badge-Color

Badge

TLE-Badge-Dark

TLE-Badge-Dark

Badge

TLE-Badge-Light

TLE-Badge-Light

Badge

TLE-Badge-Outline-Dark

TLE-Badge-Outline-Dark

Badge

TLE-Badge-Outline-Light

TLE-Badge-Outline-Light

Badge

Logomark

TLE-Logomark-Color

TLE-Logomark-Color

Logomark

TLE-Logomark-Dark

TLE-Logomark-Dark

Logomark

TLE-Logomark-Light

TLE-Logomark-Light

Logomark

TLE-Logomark-Outline-Dark

TLE-Logomark-Outline-Dark

Logomark

TLE-Logomark-Outline-Light

TLE-Logomark-Outline-Light

Logomark

Logo

TLE-Logo-Color-Dark

TLE-Logo-Color-Dark

Logo

TLE-Logo-ColorLight

TLE-Logo-ColorLight

Logo

TLE-Logo-Dark

TLE-Logo-Dark

Logo

TLE-Logo-Light

TLE-Logo-Light

Logo

TLE-Logo-Outline-Dark

TLE-Logo-Outline-Dark

Logo

TLE-Logo-Outline-Light

TLE-Logo-Outline-Light

Logo

Logo + tagline

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Color-Dark

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Color-Dark

Logo + tagline

TLE-Logo-Tagline-ColorLight

TLE-Logo-Tagline-ColorLight

Logo + tagline

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Dark

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Dark

Logo + tagline

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Light

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Light

Logo + tagline

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Outline-Dark

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Outline-Dark

Logo + tagline

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Outline-Light

TLE-Logo-Tagline-Outline-Light

Logo + tagline

Wordmark

TLE-Wordmark-Dark

TLE-Wordmark-Dark

Wordmark

TLE-Wordmark-Light

TLE-Wordmark-Light

Wordmark

TLE-Wordmark-Tagline-Dark

TLE-Wordmark-Tagline-Dark

Wordmark

TLE-Wordmark-Tagline-Light

TLE-Wordmark-Tagline-Light

Wordmark

Clear space

Give the seal room to breathe.

Keep at least one-eighth of the mark’s diameter clear on every side — about the height of the gold leaf. Do not crowd it with type, photography, or another organization’s mark.

  • Minimum digital size. Mark at 40 pixels. Lockup at 160 pixels wide.
  • Minimum print size. Mark at 0.7 inches. Lockup at 2.25 inches wide.
  • On a circle. Crop to the gold ring on the logomark. Do not cut through the roots or the letters on the badge.
Clear space around the mark

Color

Forest, paper, and a little brass.

Eleven approved values. Tap a chip to copy HEX, OKLCH, or CMYK. Brass is an accent, not a fill.

Paper

Pale leaf

Leaf

Forest

Deep forest

Ink

Cream

Brass

Spring

Soil

Water

Type

Source Serif 4 and IBM Plex Sans.

Headlines sit in Source Serif 4 — optical size on, a little negative tracking, often in sentence case. The interface and body live in IBM Plex Sans. Both are free on Google Fonts.

Headline

Empowering beyond the passion.

Italic

Growth needs more than passion. It needs roots.

Body

Leading a nonprofit is lonely work. The Exchange puts you in a room with coaches and peers so vision can find traction.

Voice

Speak as if you are in the room.

Warm, exact, and unhurried. We write to executive directors who already care — they need company and craft, not a pitch. Prefer short sentences. Prefer the words members, coaches, peers, and Exchange.

We exist to equip nonprofit leaders to be empowered beyond the passion.

We say

Empowering beyond the passion.

Not

Unlock your leadership potential.

We say

A seat in the Exchange.

Not

A scalable coaching platform.

We say

Sponsors keep a seat open.

Not

Donate now and change the world.

Hold the line

What we do not do.

  1. 01

    Do not stretch, rotate, or outline the mark.

  2. 02

    Do not recolor the leaves, ring, or type except in the official versions.

  3. 03

    Do not place a color mark on a busy photograph.

  4. 04

    Do not set the name in a novelty script or a heavy geometric sans.

  5. 05

    Do not add a drop shadow, glow, or extra ring around the seal.

  6. 06

    Do not separate the tree from the name in a lockup. Use the official files.

Downloads

PNG, SVG, and PDF.

Twenty-six official files. SVG for screens, @2x PNG for raster, and a CMYK PDF for print. The zip is the same package as the brand board.

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TLE-Badge-ColorBadgePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Badge-DarkBadgePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Badge-LightBadgePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Badge-Outline-DarkBadgePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Badge-Outline-LightBadgePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Color-DarkLogoPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-ColorLightLogoPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-DarkLogoPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-LightLogoPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Outline-DarkLogoPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Outline-LightLogoPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Tagline-Color-DarkLogo + taglinePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Tagline-ColorLightLogo + taglinePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Tagline-DarkLogo + taglinePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Tagline-LightLogo + taglinePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Tagline-Outline-DarkLogo + taglinePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logo-Tagline-Outline-LightLogo + taglinePNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logomark-ColorLogomarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logomark-DarkLogomarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logomark-LightLogomarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logomark-Outline-DarkLogomarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Logomark-Outline-LightLogomarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Wordmark-DarkWordmarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Wordmark-LightWordmarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Wordmark-Tagline-DarkWordmarkPNGSVGPDF
TLE-Wordmark-Tagline-LightWordmarkPNGSVGPDF