Day of Design
← All workFBW LLP · 2026

Law firmBusiness law · Litigation · Real estate

Three names,
cut into one mark.

FBW LLP primary lockup, reversed
Primary lockup, reversed

00The project

Client
Freedman · Benipal · Wu LLP
Practice
Business law, litigation, real estate
Year
2026

FBW LLP is the law firm of three partners — Freedman, Benipal and Wu — practising business law, litigation and real estate. They needed a mark that would hold up engraved in brass, printed on a card and shrunk into an email signature. We drew their three initials as a cut serif, set a brass rule beneath and the full name under that, then built it into a set of files anyone can be handed.

  • Logo design
  • Logo quick guide, 9 pages
  • Business card
  • Logo production set, 7 parts
  • Email signature
  • Plaque visualisations

01The letters

Every stroke
stands on its own.

FBW is drawn as a high-contrast serif with every stroke cut free: the F’s arms stand off its stem, the B’s bowls never touch theirs, the W’s thin strokes stop short of the cap line, and each end finishes in a small rounded notch. It reads like a seal, or letters cut through brass — the gaps are detail at large sizes and air at small ones.

The FBW wordmark
F — both arms stand off the stem
B — the bowls never touch the stem
W — thin strokes stop below the cap line

02The lockup

A brass rule,
then the names in full.

Under the letters runs a brass rule, graded dark to light and back, exactly as wide as FBW; under that, the three partners’ names in bold, widely spaced sans capitals with interpuncts. Black and white versions do the daily work. The gold-plate version sets the letters on a brass field so it can sit on white, grey or black without adjustment.

FBW LLP primary lockup, black
FBW LLP primary lockup, reversed
The FBW gold-plate lockup: black letters on a brass field
The FBW gold-plate lockup: black letters on a brass field
The FBW gold-plate lockup: black letters on a brass field
BlackLetters and name
WhitePaper and reversals
Brass#9F7330 · #FFC064 · #C89140

03The card

The front carries the name.
The back carries the rest.

A vertical card, two by three and a half inches. The front is solid black with the reversed lockup and nothing else. The back is white: a small lockup top left, then name, title and contact lines, a brass rule, and the firm’s three offices — Toronto, Markham and Oakville.

Front
Back · personal details replaced with bars
A brass plaque on a walnut wall, engraved with FBW and the partners’ names (AI-rendered visualisation)
Plaque visualisation · AI-rendered for the quick guide, not an installed sign

04The files

For every use,
a file already made.

A nine-page quick guide shows how to use it: on light grounds, on dark ones, the gold plate on anything, and the plaque. With it went a production set sorted by use into seven parts, each in the formats that use needs, and an HTML email signature.

  1. 01Primary lockupBlack, white, gold plate; with and without clear space — SVG · EPS · PDF · PNG
  2. 02One colourBlack, white, gold — SVG · EPS · PDF · PNG
  3. 03Wordmark onlyBlack, white, gold — SVG · EPS · PDF · PNG
  4. 04App icon & favicon192 and 512 px, Apple touch icon, .ico, SVG
  5. 05Social & presentationAvatars, LinkedIn banner, 1200 × 630 share image, 16:9 slides in dark and light
  6. 06Web bundleA set of files for the website
  7. 07Colour referenceValues sheet — PNG · SVG · TXT
The FBW gold-plate lockup: black letters on a brass field
Gold plate, on black
Client
FBW LLP
Year
2026
Scope
Logo design · Logo quick guide, 9 pages · Business card · Logo production set, 7 parts · Email signature · Plaque visualisations

The logo, quick guide, business card and production set were delivered by the studio in 2026. The marks on this page are the delivered SVG files; the wordmark is the same file cropped above the name line. The card is re-set from its print file with names, numbers, emails and addresses replaced by grey bars. The brass plaque is an AI-rendered visualisation from the quick guide, not an installed sign. The partner portraits in the guide and the business proposals are not shown.