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A purpose-built brand book for a grant management platform — turning a quiet compliance category into a visual system bold enough to walk into any conference and own the room.

Works
Category
Web Design, Branding, Visual Design
Year
2025
Services
Brand Identity, Web Design, UI/UX
Client
SmartGrantSolutions
06/ 21

Role

Brand & Digital Designer · Sole Designer

Industry

Grant-management SaaS

By the numbers

20+
Landing pages
Designed, built, and shipped end-to-end.
30+
Design-system components
12
Monthly newsletters
40+
Social assets

Mission granted.

Grant management software does not have to look like grant management software. The deck pulls a rocket-ship motif and a magenta-on-yellow signal palette out of an industry stuck in muted blues — turning compliance, audit, and reporting into a visual identity that reads as confidently editorial as it does institutional.

01 / 02

Part One — Brand

slides 01–10

Cover, mission, attributes, mark, and color/type fundamentals.

SGS Brand Book — Cover
CoverBrand Guidelines v1.0 — April 2026.
SGS Brand Book — Our mission is to fuel yours.
Our mission is to fuel yours.Founded by Jessica Jiang in Newcastle, PA — purpose-built financial software for the people who do public-good work.
SGS Brand Book — Clarity. Compliance. Control.
Clarity. Compliance. Control.Four brand attributes that frame every visual decision.
SGS Brand Book — The BIG mark.
The BIG mark.Primary lockup, full-color, sized large enough to read across a conference hall.
SGS Brand Book — Mission Granted.
Mission Granted.Product wordmark — the rocket-ship motif drops the dot of the lowercase i.
SGS Brand Book — A purposeful palette.
A purposeful palette.Five colors with locked roles — magenta leads, yellow contrasts, navy grounds.
SGS Brand Book — Aa — Mission Granted.
Aa — Mission Granted.Type stack: Poppins Black for headlines, Poppins Regular for body.
SGS Brand Book — Eliminate spreadsheets. Ensure compliance. Drive strategy.
Eliminate spreadsheets. Ensure compliance. Drive strategy.The mantra — three verbs that should appear, in order, in every product brief.
SGS Brand Book — In the wild.
In the wild.Mockups across web, social, and print so the system feels resolved before it ships.
SGS Brand Book — Mission Granted. — stamp
Mission Granted. — stampThe wordmark on solid black, reserved for closing pages and signature moments.
02 / 02

Part Two — Design System

slides 11–18

Spacing, components, and patterns that translate the brand into shippable UI.

SGS Brand Book — Design System.
Design System.Section header — yellow on black, signaling the move from brand to system.
SGS Brand Book — Spacing & grid.
Spacing & grid.8-point grid, 12-column desktop, 4-column mobile — every layout falls into the same lattice.
SGS Brand Book — Buttons.
Buttons.Six variants × three sizes. Primary magenta, secondary outline, ghost text.

§ · Brand book — continued

Design system 14–18
Cards · forms · number blocks · photo treatment
Social media 19–25
LinkedIn · lead magnets · voice · cadence
Blog covers 26–27
Cover families · anatomy of a cover