05 · RSX Design
Not everything RSX makes wears the RSX symbol. Services do; products have marks of their own, drawn on the same grid. This page sets out which is which, and why.
Parent mark
The parts of RSX that people visit and sign in to. They are RSX, so they use the RSX symbol and are named RSX plus their function. None has a symbol of its own.
Own mark
Distinct pieces of the system with a role of their own. Each has its own symbol, logo and textmark. They share the RSX grid and textmark lettering, never the RSX symbol, and are monochrome so they never read as RSX itself.
Each service is identified by the interface lockup: the RSX symbol, the name, and the function after a rule. Services that do not exist yet are not listed.
rsx.group
The main site: what RSX is, what it runs, and who runs it.
id.rsx.group
One account across everything RSX runs, and the OpenID Connect provider behind it.
cdn.rsx.group
File hosting and sharing, served from its own domain.
legal.rsx.group
The terms, policies and notices governing the platform.
design.rsx.group
This reference.
A new service follows the same pattern from its first page: RSX plus one plain word for what it does, on its own subdomain, using the parent symbol. It does not get a symbol of its own, however prominent it becomes.
Four product identities, all currently infrastructure: the system RSX runs on, rather than something a person signs in to. Their marks are published here so that every use of them starts from the right file.
The custom-built, Linux-based operating system that runs first-class RSX infrastructure hardware.
The client agent that supervises container applications and reports to RSX Infra.
The connectivity layer linking Native, Node and enrolled devices with RSX Infra.
The custom-built Rust library for Discord integrations.
Every RSX mark is boxed: it fills the same square, divided three by three. What differs is how the shape is made inside it.
Start from the solid square and cut wedges out of it. The block stays dominant and the cut is the identity. RSX and Metal are cut in.
Build the shape from whole modules and the diagonals between their corners, leaving the centre open. Native, Node and Link are assembled.
RSX
Cut in. Three wedges cut from a solid block, from the left, right and bottom edges, leave an arrow pointing up and to the left. Every point falls on a module or half-module line.
Native
Assembled. The four corner modules, joined by two parallel diagonal bands that pass either side of an open centre.
Node
Assembled. A ring of modules around an open centre, its top and bottom rows sheared into parallelograms.
Link
Assembled. Two L-shapes of whole modules, interlocked around an open centre. The only mark with no diagonal.
Metal
Cut in. A solid block with one narrow wedge cut down from its top edge, its point on the first module line, a module and a half in.
The logos follow the same logic: symbol, a gap of about one module, then the textmark, all in the same drawn lettering. A family resemblance comes from the grid and the lettering; no mark borrows another’s shape.
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