What does DanLogo · Swiss Tech 静几何 do?
Letters are graphics; extract the symbol from the letterform: quiet, precise — like a sentence landing on its final word.
A direction within the danlogo series, a wordmark-as-logo style: Chinese and English letterforms are constructed from scratch, the entire word treated as a single graphic composition; the icon is extracted, combined, or transformed from one or more parts of the wordmark. It defines a formal language — constructing letters, correcting geometry, modularity and grids, quiet/loud color separation, correction as character — without prescribing which letters, how to combine them, what colors to use, or the industry. Its ideas come from Bauhaus constructed letters, concrete poetry, Swiss International Style, modernist classic wordmarks, visual correction and parameterization of type, and signal colors from functionalist products. It was reverse-engineered from the EonPoint "Shouwei" (首尾) case (cases/), but every new brand must find its own approach within its own name.
Read First
Before starting any project, read the first three style chapters in order; read chapter four only at stage 6:
references/philosophy.md— Intellectual coordinates: why design like thisreferences/style-dna.md— Style DNA, knobs, and litmus tests: what does it feel likereferences/creative-methods.md— Creative methods and anti-homogenization: how to come up with something new each timereferences/style-extension.md— Style extension: what systems, scenarios, and presentations look like (stages 6–8)
references/exemplars.md (reference works) and cases/index.md (used combinations and knobs) should not be read until after listing combination candidates in stage 2 — use them to eliminate default answers and overlapping motifs; reading them earlier will bias you. Full cases should only be read when you need to reference "how far to go", and even then only borrow method, not form. Other files are read at their corresponding stage (see table below).
Three Layers of Requirements
| Layer | Content | Can it change? |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Gates (shared across series) | references/quality-gates.md; the "first, it's a graphic" gate is judged by this style's "letterform-as-graphic" standard (style-dna.md) | Every project must pass |
| Style DNA (this style) | style-dna.md + self-check from philosophy.md | Default; adjust if the user explicitly asks, and record in decisions.md |
| Creative Freedom Zone | Which parts to extract, how to combine, case, squareness, weight/width, signature correction, signal colors, materials | Derived anew for each project; at least two "knobs" must be clearly different from all existing cases |
Three reminders:
- Wordmark is the logo; letters must become graphics. Choosing this style means the user explicitly requests a wordmark logo (see replacement of shared chapters below; record in decisions.md). The wordmark must read as a designed shape, and the symbol must be a solid plane that can stand alone as an object; judge using the "four questions for letterform-as-graphic" from
style-dna.md. Do not break letters into lines. - Judge by temperament, not by elements. The specific shapes, colors, and letterforms in the examples are answers for that brand, not rules of this style.
- Symbol comes from the letterform. This style is most often misunderstood as "pick a nice font, put the first letter in a box." Letters must be constructed from scratch; the symbol must be composed or transformed from elements within the wordmark (combining several parts, or cutting and transforming one glyph); what is highlighted is exactly that which is borrowed. The relationships between them are derived by rules.
This Style's Replacements for Shared Chapters
The five shared chapters are written for graphic symbols. This style uses wordmarks as logos; follow the right column below, and follow shared chapters for everything else:
| Shared chapter wording | This style |
|---|---|
The mark is first a graphic; by default do not do letterform marks (quality-gates.md, craft.md) | The wordmark and symbol must both pass the "four questions for letterform-as-graphic" (style-dna.md), equally strict |
The distinctiveness checklist must differentiate from letters, numbers, and punctuation (quality-gates.md) | Letters can be recognizable, but must not look like common fonts or pre-existing letter combinations |
Graphics should not borrow structure from letters (craft.md) | The symbol precisely borrows structure from letters: extract the symbol from the letterform |
The entire wordmark has only one signature detail (craft.md) | Similarly keep only one signature; combination, signal, and signature should ideally fall on the same part; if the same signature recurs in Chinese characters, it still counts as one |
| The main element is called "graphic", not "symbol" | In this style, "symbol" is the graphic mark (icon), and must equally have a solid plane and stand alone as an object |
At most 1 concept per round from letterforms (workflow.md, stage 2) | Every concept comes from the name's letterforms; cover at least three categories of material with 10+ candidates; among 5 cards, at least three different combination types, with at most two of the same type |
| Stage 3: first only the graphic, no letters; custom lettering in stage 5 | Stage 3: first define the letterform grammar, draw key Latin letters, Chinese keywords, and the symbol; Stage 4: complete English and Chinese wordmarks; Stage 5: extend to a–z and full Chinese, finalize colors |
| At least two different silhouettes for prototypes; no direct illustration of the motif | ≥3 prototypes for the same concept must differ in concrete approach (position, proportion, relationship, cut, thickness); no need to change combination type just to get different silhouettes, and do not make weak prototypes just for that. "Direct illustration" means common font output or first letter in a box. |
| Name-swap test | Rename the brand: does this combination and its relationships still hold? Any single-letter modification must be tied to that name by a relationship or part of the name's meaning; if any brand sharing that letter could copy it, it must be replaced. |
| Only draw letters in the name | Stage 5 extends to a–z and the Chinese wordmark, proving it's a cohesive typeface |
When the user authorizes the AI to decide and lock an option on their behalf, proceed with the workflow and mark each AI-made decision in decisions.md with 【AI代定】; wait for the user to review. For items that can't be asked (e.g., whether there are concurrent projects), mark them with 【假设】(assumption).
Nine Stages
Details, naming conventions, and exit criteria are in references/workflow.md. Each stage ends with the user's explicit confirmation; the user can always revert, add, modify, or merge.
| Stage | What to do | Output per round | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Briefing | User provides info; AI asks one-time follow-up questions (≤10) | Briefing card | workflow.md |
| 2 Concepts | Read the name's letterforms and meaning; find combinations | 5 concept cards (one combination each), can be modified, added, or merged | creative-methods.md, philosophy.md, workflow.md, quality-gates.md |
| 3 Prototypes | For each locked concept: first define the letterform grammar, draw key Latin letters, Chinese keywords, and the symbol; mainly black & white, with a two-color version (neutral + tentative signal color) | ≥3 prototypes per concept + preliminary uniqueness check (including existing letter combinations) | style-dna.md, craft.md, quality-gates.md |
| 4 Graphics | Refine the symbol and complete English & Chinese wordmarks: construction rules, visual corrections, small-size version (wordmark tested at actual height), construction diagram | Refined wordmark and symbol | craft.md, quality-gates.md, style-dna.md |
| 5 Final | Extend grammar to a–z and full Chinese; colors | 2–3 color schemes per wordmark + full uniqueness check | craft.md, style-dna.md |
| 6 System | Combinations, color changes, white space, minimum size, incorrect usage, dynamics | Full SVG / PNG set | deliverables.md, style-extension.md |
| 7 Scenarios | 6–10 industry-appropriate scenarios | Scenario mockups | deliverables.md, style-extension.md |
| 8 Presentation | Presentation document + speaker notes + source files + re-check uniqueness | Presentation | deliverables.md, style-extension.md, adapters/ |
| 9 Summary | Proactively ask whether to use this project to optimize the skill | Modification suggestions, written in after user approval | workflow.md, section 9 |
Throughout the Entire Process
- Project archive: one folder per project with a
decisions.md(first line:skill: danlogo-swisstech v<version>), recording what was shown in each round, user's exact words, what was locked and what was rejected. When taking over an existing project, read it first. - Structure first: before stage 5, review structure in black & white. This style declares color participates in structure: from stage 3 onward, each black & white prototype is accompanied by a two-color version (neutral + one signal color marked "tentative"), highlighting only the combined parts; the black & white version must still hold its own through shape and purity.
- Calculate before drawing: first write down the grid, squareness, terminals, and cut parameters, then generate the letters; the combination relationships are derived by rules.
- Letters as a family: do not only draw the letters in the name; by stage 5, extend the rules to a–z and the Chinese wordmark, confirming they belong together.
- Rejected → go back, don't add: change the motif or prototype; do not add decoration to the existing drawing.
- Uniqueness check three times: preliminary check at prototype, full check at final, re-check before presentation (
quality-gates.md); also check combinations like "industry-leading brand's color + first letter". - Look at rendered images with your own eyes: always judge aesthetics based on rendered images, including 16 px thumbnails.
- Communication: use the user's language. For each round, first say in one sentence what was done, then list the options with numbers and a one-sentence rationale for each, give a recommendation with reason, and ask whether to lock, modify, or continue. For short feedback, consult
references/feedback-playbook.md. - Client materials stay in the project folder only, not written into the skill.
When Multiple danlogo Styles Are Installed
If the user names a specific style, use that skill. If the project's decisions.md specifies which skill to use, follow it. If neither specifies, and multiple danlogo styles are installed, first list the installed styles, ask the user to choose, then start.
Tools & Files
scripts/: General tools — geometry and SVG generation (geom.py), multi-image comparison review viewer (sheet.py), graphic-sense and distinctiveness review board (review.py), SVG to PNG conversion (render.sh), scenario mockups (mockup.py). Seescripts/README.mdfor instructions. When using, copy to the project'ssrc/.examples/eonpoint-shouwei/src/: Complete generation code for the case (alphabet, Chinese wordmark, system, and scenario images). Use its toolchain for constructing letters from scratch:setup.shinstalls superellipse, boolean operations, and non-clipping rendering (geo.py,render.mjs). Learn its engineering approach; do not reuse its forms or letter shapes.adapters/for-claude.md,adapters/for-codex.md: Differences across AI tools for viewing images, making presentations, previewing web pages.PROMPT-CARD.md: A style prompt card to paste into any AI when the skill is not installed.evals/briefs.md: Test briefs to verify this skill does not turn all brands into the same look.
Five files in references/ marked with danlogo-core (workflow, quality-gates, craft, deliverables, feedback-playbook) are shared chapters across the danlogo series, consistent across all styles; this style's exclusive files are philosophy, style-dna, creative-methods, and style-extension: the first three govern the mark itself, the fourth governs the aesthetic of systems, scenarios, and presentations, so that the entire design system and the mark radiate the same temperament.