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Human Values identity system shown across printed and digital applications with a restrained palette and clear hierarchy

Brand Identity

Human Values

Identity work built around clarity, calm and considered hierarchy.

Role
Identity design, typographic system, applications
Disciplines
Branding, Digital

The challenge

Values-led organisations tend to accumulate a lot of message at once. Without a firm hierarchy, every application ends up equally weighted and nothing gets read.

Hand-drawn sketches exploring the hexagon mark and icon ideas on paper

The approach

We built the identity around a strict three-level hierarchy — one statement, one supporting line, one action — and held it across every application. The palette is deliberately narrow so colour carries meaning rather than decoration, and the type system uses two weights of a single family, which keeps applications consistent when produced by someone other than a designer.

Sheets of icon and lettering studies for the Human Values marks

The outcome

The system makes the important thing visibly the important thing in each piece, and is simple enough to hand over. Rollout and results to be confirmed.

Two hexagonal marks with icons, labelled Respect and Loyalty
Two hexagonal marks with icons, labelled Equality and Harmony
Two hexagonal marks with icons, labelled Peace and Freedom
A hexagonal mark with an icon, labelled Justice
All the value marks arranged together as a honeycomb of hexagons
Three Human Values posters shown side by side
The Human Values mark: a dark hexagon containing five linked figures drawn in single lines

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