OVIOS · brand concept · round 2Direction: Caught

Every lead caught. Every job finished.

What Softriver does well

Five habits behind their best marks

I went through all 32 brand boards in their portfolio. The look varies, but the method is consistent.

Two shapes, no more

Exposure is four pills. Monty is two slashes. Buddzee is circles. The mark is built from one or two primitives you could describe over the phone.

The letter hides in it

Monty's slashes are an M, Point's flag is a P, Paradigm's loop is a P. The initial is there if you look, so it never feels like a random icon.

Mark becomes the system

Exposure's pills turn into photo crops. Ovia's line wraps people and posters. One shape carries the whole brand.

One owned colour

Each brand commits to a single saturated hue against near-black or white: cobalt for Point, red for Visunect and Quint.

Sold in use

Nothing is shown on a white page alone. You see the mark on an app icon, a billboard, a badge and a UI, so it already feels like a real company.

One of their recent clients is Ovia, a marketing company with a lime ring-shaped "o" on black. It sounds a lot like OVIOS, so this direction deliberately avoids a ring O, lime and a black-and-lime palette.

The idea

A V and a dot. Three ways to read it.

The mark is two strokes and a circle. It's simple enough to draw in the air, and each reading says something true about OVIOS.

A lead dropping into the funnel

Marketing brings them in, sales catches them, nothing falls through. The V is the funnel and the dot is the lead.

A customer with arms up

The same shape is a person cheering, like the old \o/ emoticon. The end result of the platform is a happy customer and a finished job.

The heart of the name

It's the v and the dot of the i from ovios, lifted straight out of the wordmark. Mark and name are made of the same parts.

Construction

Built on one stroke weight

The mark and the wordmark share one rule: round-ended strokes of one weight and perfect circles. The wordmark is drawn, not typed. Its two o's are true circles, its v uses the same 31° angle as the mark, and the dot on the i is the customer, in coral.

Stroke
20 units on a 100-unit grid, round caps and join
Angle
31° from vertical, shared by mark and wordmark v
Dot
Diameter equals stroke weight. Always coral where colour allows.
Clear space
One dot diameter on every side
Min size
16px for the mark, 64px wide for the wordmark
Wordmark with construction circles and stroke centrelines
Colour

Deep ink, with one warm signal

Most sales and CRM software is blue. OVIOS keeps a cool, trustworthy base and owns signal coral as its single accent. Coral marks the moment that matters: the lead, the win, the finished job.

Ink#0C0E2B · base, text, UI
Signal coral#FF6A47 · the dot, wins, CTAs
Cobalt#4357FF · links, data
Mist#EEF0F8 · surfaces
In use

The mark at work

Mock-ups only. The names and figures are illustrative.

Every lead caught. Every job finished.

Billboard
09:41
Monday 5 October
OVIOS · nowNew lead caught. Website form, Bristol. Survey requested.
OVIOS · 8m agoJob #2041 marked complete. Invoice sent.
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This week

From first click to finished job
New leads48
Quoted17
Won9
Delivered6
Website form · BristolNew lead
Referral · CheltenhamQuote sent
Meta ad · CardiffWon
Syncing jobs. The loader is the logo: the dot drops in, again and again.
Product UI
32
24
16
App icon · favicon
TonyCo-founder
Business card
Pattern: one coral lead in the funnel
Also explored

Two alternates built the same way

Flywheel

Four identical quarters turning around a square hole: sales, marketing, customers and fulfilment, each pushing the next. Strong for an "all in one" story, but less personal than Caught.

Relay

Two halves of an O passed across a gap, forming an S. The handoff from the team that sells to the team that delivers. Calmer and more corporate.

If you pick Caught

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