TWO SIX TECHNOLOGIES — BRAND KIT
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Mission Focused. Impact Driven.

Source of truth: the Two Six Technologies Brand Kit page (index.html).
Derived from the 2025 TST Brand Guidelines and the current twosixtech.com build.

CONTENTS
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tokens.css        Canonical design tokens as CSS custom properties.
                  Import this file — do not copy values into components.

logos/            Two-color is the standard lockup. One-color is the fallback
                  for where two-color reproduction is not available.

                  Two-color — STANDARD
                    logo-2color.svg           Full lockup, Navy + Grey
                    logo-2color-white.svg     Full lockup, White + Grey
                    wordmark-2color.svg       Name only, Navy + Grey
                    wordmark-2color-white.svg Name only, White + Grey
                    mark-2color.svg           DNA mark, Navy + Grey
                    mark-2color-white.svg     DNA mark, White + Grey

                  One-color — FALLBACK
                    logo-primary.svg      Full lockup, Two Six Black (#01121E)
                    logo-white.svg        Full lockup, White
                    wordmark-primary.svg  Name only, Two Six Black
                    wordmark-white.svg    Name only, White
                    mark.svg              DNA mark, Two Six Black
                    mark-white.svg        DNA mark, White
                    mark-blue.svg         DNA mark, Royal Blue (favicon / app icon)

icons/            The 14-icon application suite. 24px grid, 1.4px stroke,
                  stroke="currentColor" so they inherit the surrounding colour.

graphics/         Textures, gradients, and signature compositions.

                  Textures and gradients (tile, crop, sit behind content):
                    aurora-blue / aurora-green / aurora-light
                    starfield, signal-field, helix-rule
                    gradient-p1-s4 (Royal Blue -> White)
                    gradient-p3-s2 (Black -> Navy)

                  Signature compositions (use whole, at size, with room
                  around them -- do not crop into a background):
                    orchestration-cycle  R&D -> Operational Transition ->
                                         Productized Capabilities, around
                                         the mark. Dark surfaces. The centre
                                         mark is the two-color White + Grey
                                         lockup (it was previously filled with
                                         a blue-to-green gradient, which is not
                                         a logo colourway).
                    network-globe        Global scale and allied reach.
                                         Light surfaces.

imagery/          Production imagery from twosixtech.com. Use these files as
                  they are -- do not redraw or approximate them.

                  Capability renders (1100x733 webp), one per capability
                  area. Each carries its own pale-blue ground, so place them
                  on white or paper -- never on a dark surface or over a
                  gradient.
                    01-secure-solutions       glass cube lattice
                    02-information-advantage  rings + orbiting nodes
                    03-data-analytics         surface chart + glass torus
                    04-electronic-systems     glass wave ribbon
                    05-cyber                  hex lattice

                  photography-leadership.jpg
                    The CEO quote card. The reference for how photography
                    and type sit together, and for the photography rules:
                    real employees, real work-life, no conceptual styling.

COLOR
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PRIMARY
  Two Six Royal Blue    #1E41DD   RGB 30 65 221    CMYK 86 75 0 0     PMS 2132 C
  Two Six Bright Green  #24D4A0   RGB 36 212 160   CMYK 65 0 53 0     PMS 7465 C
                        ^ the hex is canonical. Page 12 of the 2025 PDF prints
                          "RGB 36, 212, 221" next to it, which is a different
                          colour and is wrong.
  Two Six Black         #01121E   RGB 1 18 30      CMYK 85 72 59 76   PMS Black 6 C

SECONDARY
  Two Six Bright Blue   #1667FF   RGB 22 103 255   CMYK 80 60 0 0     PMS 2727 C
  Two Six Navy          #002643   RGB 0 38 66      CMYK 100 82 45 50  PMS 7463 C
  Two Six Grey          #889EA9   RGB 136 158 169  CMYK 50 30 28 0    PMS 2163 C
  Two Six Teal          #008AA3   RGB 0 138 163    CMYK 84 31 28 0    PMS 3135 C
  Two Six White         #FFFFFF   RGB 255 255 255  CMYK 0 0 0 0       PMS 11-0601 TCX

TYPOGRAPHY
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  Instrument Sans   The brand typeface. One family for everything — display,
                    headings, UI, and body copy, in digital and in print.
                    Free from Google Fonts, so it ships without a licence.
                      500 Medium     display sizes, tight tracking
                      600 SemiBold   titles
                      400 Regular    body copy
                      700 Bold       uppercase eyebrows and buttons

  Arial             System substitute for Microsoft Office assets only.
                    Use it where Instrument Sans cannot be embedded.

  (Aeonik is no longer part of the system. Page 15 of the 2025 guidelines
   is out of date on this.)

RULES OF THUMB
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  - Two-color is the standard lockup: Navy + Grey on white, paper, and light
    surfaces; White + Grey on navy and dark surfaces. The two-color treatment
    is original to the mark and is what appears on Two Six office signage.
  - One-color (Black on light, White on dark) only where two-color cannot
    reproduce -- single-ink print, etch, embroidery, engraving.
  - On Royal Blue, use one-color White. Grey against Royal Blue is only about
    3.4:1, so the "six" softens and the back strand of the mark drops out.
  - Below roughly 24px on white, use one-color. Grey on white is about 2.8:1,
    which holds at signage and header sizes but not at favicon size. For
    favicons and app icons use mark-blue.svg.
  - Never substitute other palette colors into the lockup. Teal, Bright Green,
    and Royal Blue are not logo inks.
  - Clear space around the logo >= the height of the stacked wordmark.
  - Gradients: sparing and subtle. Never behind the logo or long-form reading.
  - Icons: simple clean lines, one concept each, no type inside, vector only.
  - Our name is Two Six Technologies. Alternates: "Two Six" and "TST" only.
    Never "Two Six Tech" or "TwoSix".

Questions, new collateral, and exceptions: branding@twosixtech.com
