innovationterms

The innovationterms brand kit

The working vocabulary of innovation — strategy, methods, leadership, ecosystems, and how organizations innovate with technology and AI. Explained with enough rigor to use at work. The visual system is calm, hand-made, and built so the content does the heavy lifting.

innovationterms logo

Logo

A hand-drawn teal diamond inside a sketched circle, paired with the lowercase wordmark — “innovation” in ink, “terms” in deep teal. Keep clear space around it and never recolor or smooth the linework.

Color

White is the dominant surface. Teal is the brand voice — frame, accents, links, and active states. Spot colors appear only inside illustrations, max two per image.

Teal #76CED8 Brand frame, header, accents
Teal Soft #9ADEE6 CTA fills
Teal Deep #0097A7 Links, active text
Mist #F1FAFB Tinted backgrounds
Ink #071628 Body text
Heading #0A0A0A Headings
Illustration spot colors #8A6AD8 #E8923E #9CB83A #5B8FE0

Typography

Exo 2 · 300–800 · all roles

Everyone has ideas.

A friendly humanist-technical sans used across headings, body, and metadata. Arabic locales pair it with Noto Kufi Arabic.

Voice

Between dictionary definitions and consulting thought leadership — never either. Smart, time-poor readers who are skeptical of buzzwords.

Plain, not dumbed down A sentence the reader never has to re-read.
Lead with the answer Framing comes after, not before.
Specific over vague Named examples and numbers beat adjectives.
Opinionated on evidence Take positions the evidence supports.

Coverage scope

innovationterms covers the practice and vocabulary of innovation — not technology as a standalone subject.

What we cover Innovation types & theory, strategy & portfolio, product & business models, customer & market insights, design & prototyping, delivery & agile, leadership & culture, ecosystems & sustainability, and innovating with technology & AI.
What we don't cover General technology encyclopaedia entries, product-feature wikis, news, consulting services, certification programmes, or paywalled research. A technology appears only through the lens of how organizations innovate with or around it.

Illustration

Loose editorial doodles drawn with soft marker or colored pencil on clean white — wobbly outlines, single-color linework per object, one combined idea per image, intentionally unfinished. No gradients, no glossy 3D, no stock-photo polish.

Example marker-sketch illustration in the innovationterms style