BRAND GUIDE · 01

Throughline

A collaborative narrative studio where RPG sessions become source-linked Playlogues: editable, inspectable, voiced, and ready to carry forward.

Throughline logo on ink background

POSITION

Editorial craft for living campaigns.

01

Source-linked

Every panel, bubble, render, and review should feel connected to the session that produced it.

02

Player-authored

The brand respects character ownership: players add voice without losing the GM’s continuity contract.

03

Studio-grade

Interfaces should feel like production tools: precise, inspectable, and calm under repeated use.

COLOR

Ink, paper, signal accents.

The palette should read like a production desk, not a fantasy poster. Ink and paper carry the interface; coral, gold, blue, and mint are reserved for state, emphasis, and character-coded moments.

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TYPE

Condensed labels, human copy.

Barlow Condensed carries the production voice: headings, folios, labels, and panel metadata. DM Sans carries product copy and dense controls. Hand lettering appears only inside story bubbles and annotation moments.

PLAYLOGUE ARCHIVE

Every session carries forward.

Players shape their character’s words while owners and GMs preserve continuity, visual contracts, and source traceability.

“I know what I said. I need the page to remember why.”

VOICE

Clear, grounded, production-minded.

Throughline should sound like a careful editor in the room: specific about consequences, respectful of player agency, and concise during action.

Say

“Select a panel to inspect its render history.”

“Moves preserve artwork, dialogue, audio, revisions, and consistency labels.”

Avoid

Marketing abstractions, fantasy flavor as UI copy, or vague reassurance when a production action has real consequences.

USAGE RULES

Keep the mark legible and handmade.

Clear space

Leave at least the height of the TL mark around the full logo. Do not crowd it into dense toolbars.

Minimum size

Use the full wordmark at 180px wide or larger. Below that, switch to the compact mark.

Backgrounds

Use the paper logo on light surfaces and the reversed logo on ink surfaces. Avoid low-contrast artwork behind the mark.

Do not

Recolor the thread, remove crop marks, straighten the pencil line, add drop shadows, or set the wordmark in a different typeface.