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Indigo

An energy brand with a laboratory's discipline and sudden heat

Black profile silhouette against a cool blue grey gradient with the white Indigo pinwheel lockup centered

Brand identity for Indigo, a petroleum separation technology company: a pinwheel mark and tracked wordmark in Unitea Sans, monochrome cinematic photography, a bracketed archival index system, and a palette that detonates in ultramarine and burning orange.

INDIGO

Separation Solution

Ribbed glass tile carrying the Indigo pinwheel logo and Separation Solution label, floating over a field of black rounded tiles

The brief

A laboratory's discipline, a film still's drama

Indigo is a petroleum separation technology company, and the identity treats energy work like classified research. Monochrome cinematic photography puts people first, bracketed indices file every artifact, and one geometric sans does all the talking. Color is held back for exactly two moments, an electric ultramarine and a burning orange that fill entire panels instead of decorating them.

HEX[2B00FF]RGB[43 / 0 / 255]
Ultramarine
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HEX[FE7329]RGB[254 / 115 / 41]
Burning Orange
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600
HEX[2A3D4B]RGB[42 / 61 / 75]
Dark Blue Grey
HEX[121115]RGB[18 / 17 / 21]
Cinder
HEX[E3E5F2]RGB[227 / 229 / 242]
Mercury
[Petroleum 2025]
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789 [ ] ( ) / . , : ·
Unitea Sans 300[Petroleum 2025]
Unitea Sans 400[Petroleum 2025]
VisionPerformanceInnovationReliabilitySustainability
Five rotated step statements on black beside a deep blue macro photograph of rippling liquid
Motion blurred figure walking through a glowing burning orange fieldThe photograph
Finished poster: burning orange gradient panel labeled Petroleum 2025 over a blurred grayscale figure with Separation Solution set beside itThe poster
Three Indigo posters on black: a cream poster with a blurred figure, a burning orange type poster, and an off white ink blot poster

Filed, worn, archived

The archival layer becomes physical. A tabbed folder indexed like a records office, ink studies that could hang in the lab, a technical jacket printed in metallic white. One voice at every scale, from screen to fabric.

Hand holding a grey tabbed Indigo document folder marked with an office designation and the index 32-3 N
Back of a dark technical jacket printed with the Indigo wordmark and Separation Solution in metallic white
Diagonal streaked black ink blots on off white, source art from the 2025 poster

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