Brand Kit · April 2026

A platform for the underserved.

Zovos AI is agentic compliance infrastructure for community banks and credit unions. This kit defines the voice, the mark, the palette, and the type system that carry the brand from landing page to regulator-facing report.

Entity
Zovos AI, Inc. · Texas C‑Corp
Founded
April 2, 2026
HQ
McKinney, Texas
Placeholder mark v0.3

Name & voice

Short, ownable, and phonetically distinct. The hard "Z" lands with authority — appropriate for a tool compliance officers trust with their exam.

Zovos AI

The full wordmark sets in Newsreader. The "Zovos" portion is roman; the "AI" portion is italic, rendered in brand amethyst. In all-roman contexts (URLs, sentence prose, legal copy) the company name renders as plain text "Zovos AI" without italic styling.

A living system for regulation that never stops changing.

Working tagline: "Compliance that keeps up."

Audience & posture

The buyer is a Chief Compliance Officer at a $500M–$10B asset community bank or credit union. Overworked, technical-but-not-engineer, conservative, evaluated by examiners.

The brand needs to read as institutionally credible and editorially smart — not as a Brooklyn-coded AI startup. Dark, restrained, confident. We sell to regulated institutions.

FFIEC · NCUA · BSA/AML · OCC

Logo & wordmark

The mark is a ribbon-Z on a dark background. It appears across five approved surface treatments. Maintain clear space equal to the height of the "Z" ribbon on every side.

Primary · Pitch Black
Surface
Deep Plum
Paper
Amethyst
Zovos AI
Wordmark Rules
  • Set in Newsreader — roman "Zovos" with italic "AI"
  • Italic "AI" always renders in --amethyst
  • Letter-spacing -0.03em at display sizes
  • Optical size opsz 72 on display headlines
  • In legal copy, render flat: "Zovos AI"
⚠   Placeholder mark — the ribbon-Z is a stylized direction render used until a designer delivers production SVG. Treat gradients and surface treatments as exploratory, not as locked brand attributes.

Palette & tokens

Dark by default — pitch black with amethyst accent. The palette is engineered for an editorial dark mode; the light-mode amethyst is deepened for contrast on warm paper. Tap any swatch to copy its hex.

Pitch Black
#030303
--bg · Page
Surface
#0A0A0A
--surface · Cards
Deep Plum
#1A1040
--deep-plum · Hover
Amethyst
#7B48E8
--amethyst · Accent
Amethyst Light
#5E32C9
--amethyst-light · Light mode
Soft White
#F0ECFF
--soft-white · Body
Paper
#F7F4F0
--paper · Light bg
Muted
#7A748C
--muted · Meta

Usage Ratios · Dark Mode

70 — BG
20 — Text
8 — Accent
  • Pitch Black + Surface~70%
  • Soft White text~20%
  • Amethyst accent~8%
  • Muted meta~2%

Application Rules

  • Primary CTAamethyst / white text
  • Focus ringamethyst @ 10–18% α
  • Italic emphasisamethyst
  • Body on darksoft white
  • Body on paper#1A1525
  • Neverwhite on amethyst fill

Type system

Newsreader for display, Libre Franklin for body, JetBrains Mono for everything machine. The pairing carries editorial-American DNA — institutional credibility for a product sold to community bank compliance officers.

Display
Newsreader
Google Fonts · Variable · OFL
Commissioned by Google for on-screen long-form. Optical sizing means strokes thicken at small sizes and refine at display sizes — one variable file from headline to footnote. Journalistic warmth without literary preciousness.
A platform for the underserved.
Editorial gravity, engineered for screens.
Aa Bb Gg Kk Rr · 0123456789
Italic accent
Newsreader Italic
Same family · Italic axis
Drawn from the same Newsreader family rather than a separate display italic. Used as a grace note in headlines — never for body copy. The italic carries calligraphic flair without departing from the family's voice.
for the underserved.
Reserved for emphasis. Never as running text.
Aa Bb Cc · & · ?!
Body / UI
Libre Franklin
Google Fonts · Variable · OFL
An open-source revival of Morris Fuller Benton's 1910 Franklin Gothic — the typeface used in thousands of American newspaper nameplates and mastheads for over a century. Pairs with Newsreader for distinct editorial-American DNA.
Running text that reads.
Community banks manage dozens of regulatory frameworks with teams of one or two. Zovos AI is the operating system they deserve — not another dashboard.
Aa Bb Cc · 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Mono
JetBrains Mono
JetBrains · OFL
Labels, code, timestamps, metadata, framework codes. Distinct from the body font — signals "machine output" and keeps dense UI scannable. Used at 10–11px with 0.16–0.20em letter-spacing for section labels.
FFIEC · NCUA · BSA
04 / TYPOGRAPHY · SECTION LABEL
Aa Bb Cc · {} [] () =>
display
clamp(48,7vw,84px) / 300
Marketing hero
h1
48–72 / 400
Section hero
h2
32–48 / 400
Section heading
h3
22–28 / 500
Card heading
body-lg
20–22 / 400 italic
Pull quotes & ledes
body
15 / 400
Default running text — the workhorse style for paragraphs and UI copy.
small
13 / 400
Form help, captions, secondary metadata.
mono-xs
10–11 / 500
SECTION LABEL · META

Building blocks

Patterns that recur across the product surface. Buttons, chips, eyebrows, cards, and the framework-code element — the brand's most recognizable typographic move.

Buttons
Read more →
Chips & Status
FFIEC BSA/AML NCUA ● Compliant ● Needs Review
Eyebrow / Section Label
Regulatory Radar · Issue 12

Headline pairs below the rule.

Framework Codes
FFIEC · NCUA · BSA/AML · OCC · CFPB

The recurring brand element — mono with bullet separators.

Card
FFIEC · 2026.04 · SR 26-3

Interagency guidance on AI/ML model risk

Sets expectations for community banks using third-party AI vendors in lending and deposit decisions. Effective September 2026. Action required

How we talk

Three principles applied to every written surface — landing pages, emails, product copy, sales decks, error messages. A brief from a smart colleague, never a vendor pitch.

Plain English

Community bank CCOs read enough regulation. Our writing should feel like a brief from a smart colleague — never a vendor pitch.

"AI-powered compliance transformation."
"Automates FFIEC gap mapping in 4 minutes."

Specific over sweeping

Concrete numbers, named regulations, real timelines. Specificity is credibility — and it's what an examiner respects.

"Comprehensive regulatory automation."
"Six agents over your policies, mapped to active FFIEC requirements."

Calm over loud

Dark, editorial, quiet confidence. Zovos sells to regulated institutions. Nothing should feel like crypto marketing — no exclamation points, no rocket emojis.

"🚀 Revolutionize your compliance!"
"Compliance that keeps up."