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Branding2025

Kepler Brand System

A bold two-hue identity built around orbital motifs and hard-edged shadows.

Role
Brand & Art Direction
Client
Kepler
Year
2025
Category
Branding
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Overview

Kepler needed an identity that felt confident and a little playful without tipping into gimmick. The answer was a disciplined system: two hues, one geometric motif, and a signature shadow.

The system

  • Two hues only — navy for structure, orange for energy
  • Orbital mark — a ring and a dot, endlessly reusable
  • Hard-offset shadow — a solid block, never a blur

Approach

Every asset derives from the same tokens, so the brand scales from a favicon to a billboard without redrawing anything. Constraints did the heavy lifting.

Outcome

A living design system that non-designers can extend safely, because the rules are few enough to remember.