zenstox
a ring set into the word where its o should be
- Client
- zenstox
- Year
- 2025
- Kind
- Letter substitution
On light and dark, large and small
Small sizes
The ring keeps its opening at 16px. The fine brush strokes at its lower left are what blur.
The idea
A stock trading brand. Six drawn glyphs and one green ring spell the seven letters of the name.
The ring is 96.33 square in a lockup 97 tall; its neighbours occupy 72. It breaks the x-height by 16.04 and the baseline by 8.33.
Geometry and measurements
Constructionas drawn · measured
As drawn
The shipped glyph, untouched.
Measured
The two horizontals are taken from the letters either side of the ring. It overshoots both.
What the file says9 properties
The ring
96.33 × 96.33
Square to the hundredth, in a lockup 97 units tall. It uses the whole height.
Position
glyph 6 of 7
Six drawn glyphs and one ring spell a seven-letter name. The mark is a letter.
Oversize
+16.04 / +8.33
It breaks the x-height above and the baseline below. No other glyph in the word does either.
Left fit
5.56
An ordinary letterspace to the glyph before it. The ring is fitted as type.
Right fit
−1.85
And on the other side the boxes overlap. The last glyph tucks into the ring's curve.
Shared cap line
y 0.00
One drawn glyph also reaches the top of the box. The ring is not alone up there.
x-height
69.94
Measured 17.05 to the 86.99 baseline, across the flat-sided letters only.
Overshoot
+1.01
Rounds drop past the baseline by a single unit. Tight, and consistent across all of them.
Variant rule
6 of 7 paths
The wordmark adapts between grounds; the green ring is identical in both files.
Contrastfour ratios
WCAG relative luminance on the fills in the file. The 4.5:1 bar is applied only where it applies — a graphic element is not text. Cards that say “on dark” are measured on near-black, #08070a.
7.21:1
Green on dark
Clears AA comfortably on near-black.
2.79:1
Green on white
A letterform-shaped graphic here, never set as running text.
9.74:1
Wordmark on white
The light lockup's ink. A soft charcoal rather than a black.
15.37:1
Wordmark on dark
The reversed lockup, tinted just off white.
Measurements
Measured off the vector
The mark occupies a letter position in the word.
Six glyph paths for a seven-letter name, with the ring between glyphs five and six by x-position.
It overshoots its neighbours above and below.
Ring y 0.00–96.33 against neighbouring glyphs at 16.04–88.00.
Only the wordmark changes between grounds.
Six of seven paths differ across the supplied files; the ring does not.
Measured from both supplied SVGs, x-height and baseline from the adjacent glyphs' own bounds.