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What a real estate mark has to do
A property mark is a trust signal on a yard sign at thirty feet and on a business card at thirty centimetres, and it has to read the same at both. It is also seen next to a photograph of a house more often than on its own.
- Readable on a yard sign from across the street
- Holds up alongside property photography without competing with it
- One-colour version for stamped documents, folders and window vinyl
- A stacked lockup for a portrait sign and a horizontal one for a letterhead
Drawing it as a symbol and wordmark
A symbol paired with the name is the most flexible arrangement: the pair does the introducing, and once the audience knows the business, the symbol can travel alone.
- 1The symbol is built from as few shapes as will carry the idea, because every additional element is another thing to lose at small size.
- 2The lockup is spaced so the symbol and the name read as one unit rather than two adjacent things.
- 3Horizontal, stacked and symbol-only versions are drawn as separate lockups rather than rearranged on the fly.
The mistake this sector makes most
The roofline-and-key cliché is so common in this sector that it reads as generic rather than reassuring. Where a mark here uses architectural language, it earns it by being specific rather than symbolic.
Where this mark has to live
A logo is not finished when it looks right on a screen. It is finished when it still works on every surface the business will put it on, which in this sector means at least these:
- Yard and window signage
- Listing photography overlays
- Contracts and folders
- Vehicle livery
What was handed over
Every project delivered by this studio ships the same way, whichever package it was bought under: editable vector masters, every export a printer or a developer asks for, and the written copyright assignment that makes the mark genuinely the client’s.
| Vector masters | Editable AI and EPS, plus PDF and SVG. Everything else can be regenerated from these, which is why they matter more than any export. |
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| Web and social exports | PNG with transparency and JPG at the sizes profiles, favicons and site headers need. |
| Lockup variants | Horizontal and stacked arrangements, a single-colour version, and a reversed version for dark backgrounds. |
| Colour and type reference | Exact colour values for print and screen, and the typefaces used, so anything made later matches. |
| Copyright assignment | Written transfer of the design to the client. Not a licence — the assignment is what makes trademark registration in their own name possible. |
A note on what this page does not claim. We publish the mark, the sector it was drawn for and how work of this kind is built. We do not publish a client’s budget, timeline or commercial results, and we do not invent them. If a client wants their project written up in full, they tell us so and we ask them for the numbers.
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