Provenance

A traced monogram, set type

The monogram is vectorised straight from the original SAVIO artwork — the swash on the S, the weight shifts through the ring, the way the V pierces it are the drawn shapes, not a font that resembles them. The wordmark and tagline are the opposite: cut fresh from Garamond and a condensed grotesque. Tracing them carried the scan's wobble into the outline, which reads as mush once the letters are extruded and lit. All files paint with currentColor, so one asset serves every colourway.

Construction

Three letters, two drawn

The mark is not a stack of initials. The S is set proud and swashed; the V is cut wider and slides beneath it; the round counter their crossing leaves is the O. All three letters of the name are present, but only two are drawn.

Crossing rule

Letters cross the ring; they never fuse with it

Where a letter meets the ring, a channel opens on either side so the two shapes stay legible as separate strokes: 0.021 D at the S, which is how the original drew it, and 0.026 D at the V, cut wider because the bevel on the dimensional build eats into it. The V's tip carries 0.011 D past the ring's outer edge, so the pierce reads as deliberate rather than as a collision.

Proportions

Measured off the artwork

Every value below was read back off the drawn shapes and is stated as a multiple of D, the ring diameter. D itself comes from a least-squares circle fit across 3,757 samples of the ring's outer edge; the drawn ring holds that circle to within 0.34% of its radius, so treating it as a true circle when you rebuild is safe.

Colour

Gold carries it; navy holds it

Gold is the only saturated colour in the system — spend it on the mark and nothing else. Navy exists so the identity survives places gold cannot go: app icons, single-colour print, embroidery.

Applications

Three grounds it has to hold

Each panel below is the same file with one CSS property changed. That is the whole point of shipping currentColor artwork.

Dimensional

The same curves, given depth

The 3D build imports the shipped curves directly, so the rendered lockup and the flat one are the same geometry — nothing was re-modelled by eye. Depth is set per band, since a bevel sized for the ring would swallow the tagline whole. The bevel also pushes every outline outward, which quietly closes the crossing channels; pulling the outline back by the same amount reopens them without changing the silhouette.

Source

the shipped SVG curves

Monogram

0.098 / bevel 0.0083

Wordmark

0.039 / bevel 0.0030

Tagline

0.017 / bevel 0.0011

Outline offset

−bevel, where gaps are tight

Material

metallic 1.0, roughness 0.21

Render

Cycles, 448 samples

Usage

Clear space and the size floor

Assets

What ships

All vector files are outlined paths — no font has to be installed anywhere for them to render correctly.