Layback
Brand guidelinesVersion 1 · September 2026London

Every value here is read from the live site, not invented for this document.

If the site changes, this is wrong and should be re-cut.

01 / The wordmark

It is type, not a drawing

The mark is the word LAYBACK set in Alan Sans ExtraBold, uppercase.

There is no symbol, no monogram and no icon-only lockup.

The name is the mark.

On the site it is live text.

The files below are that same setting converted to outlines, so nobody needs the font installed to open them.

The Layback wordmark in amber
Typeface
Alan Sans ExtraBold, weight 800.
Case
Uppercase, always.
Tracking
−18 on the wordmark files, which is −1.8% in Premiere and After Effects units.
Headlines take −12, the hero caption −15, and Alan Sans set small runs looser at −5 so the letters do not close up.
Proportion
6.4 times wider than it is tall.
Never re-set the word by hand.
Use the files.
The wordmark at its minimum width of 84 pixels
Minimum width, shown actual size.
84px on screen, 21mm in print.
Below that the A and the K close up.
02 / Clear space

Half a cap height, all the way round

Measure the cap height of the mark, halve it, and keep that much space clear on every side.

It scales with the mark, so there is one rule instead of a table of values.

Nothing sits inside the box: not a strapline, not a client mark, not an edge.

½ cap heightThe Layback wordmark in white, with its clear space drawn around it
03 / Misuse

Four things that break it

The mark carries no effects of its own.

If it is hard to read on a background, change the background or use the reversed file.

Do not add a shadow, a box or a glow.

The wordmark stretched wider
×Do not stretch or condense.
Scale both axes together.
The wordmark rotated off the horizontal
×Do not rotate.
The mark sits on the horizontal.
The wordmark with a hard drop shadow
×No shadows, outlines, glows or bevels.
The wordmark on a busy mid-tone background
×Not on a busy or mid-tone image.
Use white on a scrim.
04 / Files

Download the wordmark

Four colourways, each as vector and as a 2000px transparent PNG.

Use the SVG wherever you can.

It is 2 KB and sharp at any size.

The PNG is only for tools that will not take one.

Amber on navy
The primary.
Use this first.
White
Over film, photography, or any busy ground.
Navy
On amber.
Also on white, where navy reads better than black.
Black
Single-colour print.
Anything that cannot hold a tint.
currentColor
For developers
Inherits the colour of whatever it sits in.
For inline use in code.

Files open in a new tab.
Right-click and Save to keep one.
Hosted on the Layback Webflow CDN, so these links are stable and safe to share.

05 / Favicon

The mark, cut down to 16 pixels

LB, flush left, anchored low.

Cut from the same Alan Sans file the site loads, so it is the wordmark and not a redraw.

Amber on navy for light browser chrome.

Navy on amber for dark.

The colours swap.

The drawing does not.

Amber on navy
The default.
Light browser chrome.
Navy on amber
Dark browser chrome.
The same mark, inverted.
Both, in one file
Switches itself on the reader's system theme.
This is the one to install.
Webclip
Home screen and bookmark tile.
Square, because iOS adds its own rounding.

Webflow takes two of these.
Site settings, General, then Favicon and Webclip.
Use the 32px PNG and the 256px webclip.

06 / Colour

Navy holds the page.
Amber means act.

Two colours do nearly all the work.

Navy is the ground almost everywhere; the site has no light sections at all.

Amber is for the wordmark and for anything a visitor can press.

If amber appears on something that is not the mark and not interactive, it is wrong.

Click any value to copy it.

White, at four strengths

There is no grey in this palette.

Every step below the headline is white at a set opacity over navy.

That is what keeps the page feeling like one material.

07 / Typography

Two faces, one job each

Aa
Alan Sans ExtraBold

Display only: the wordmark, headlines and section titles.

Always uppercase, always 800.

Never used for running text.

Aa
Figtree

Everything else: body copy, labels, buttons and form fields.

Three weights are in use: Regular, Medium and SemiBold.

The scale, as it is actually set

Nothing here is a fixed point size.

Every step is measured against one body size, so the whole page scales together.

Tracking is given in Premiere and After Effects units, so you can type the number straight into the character panel.

A minus number pulls the letters together.

A plus pushes them apart.

Hero headlineAlan Sans ExtraBoldFills the screen, about 118px on a laptop and 47px on a phoneLines almost touchingTracking −12

Video production.
Start to finish.

Section headingAlan Sans ExtraBoldThe same size as the hero headlineTracking −12

Get in touch

Lead paragraphFigtree RegularHalf again bigger than bodyNever wider than about 45 characters

Elite rowers turned filmmakers, we are passionate about storytelling.

Body copyFigtree RegularThe base size, and everything else is measured against itWhite at 80%

A London-based production partner for brands that want premium-quality video and stills, without the overheads of a huge agency.

LabelFigtree MediumSmall, about 12px, and it scales with the pageAll caps, letters opened upTracking +80

Selected work

ButtonFigtree SemiBoldJust under body size, all capsTracking +40Corners 4px, or fully round on the hero

Watch the reel

The same table, for whoever builds with it

Hero headline
font-size: 8.2vw; line-height: 0.92; letter-spacing: -0.012em
Section heading
font-size: 8.2vw; line-height: 0.92; letter-spacing: -0.012em
Lead paragraph
font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4; max-width: 45ch
Body copy
font-size: 1.0625em; line-height: 1.6; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8)
Label
font-size: 0.75em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.08em
Button
font-size: 0.8125em to 0.875em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.04em; border-radius: 4px or 999px

One size sets everything

One base size sits behind the whole page.

It grows with the screen: 16px on a phone, 30px on a big display.

Every other size is a multiple of it.

Change that one number and the entire site resizes in proportion.

In the stylesheet: font-size: clamp(16px, 0.4916vw + 11.12px, 30px) on the root.

08 / In use

The short version

Ground
Navy, everywhere.
The site has no light sections.
A white panel would be the loudest thing on it.
Amber
The wordmark, anything you can press, and the one line that says something went wrong.
Never ordinary copy.
Type over film
White, over a scrim.
Never amber on picture.
Case
Display type is uppercase.
Body copy is sentence case, and stays that way.
Corners
4px on inputs, and on the buttons that sit beside them.
Fully round where the shape is the point, which is the hero call to action and the social icons.
Hairlines
1px, white at 18%, for dividers.
Input edges sit brighter, 22 to 26%, and validation borders carry their own colour.
Voice
Plain and specific.
“Video production. Start to finish.”
Not “bespoke visual storytelling solutions”.

Values read from the production stylesheet, September 2026.
The wordmark files were cut from Alan Sans ExtraBold at the site's own tracking.
They are not a redraw.
Layback Media · London · seb@layback.media · layback.media