NEXUS — Brand Guide

01

North star

The membrane breaks once. Everything after is woven.

NEXUS is the second wave — AI as instrument in the atelier, environment on the architecture, portrait on every guest. Presage hosts the threshold where advanced designers and advanced systems are equals.

01 Emergence — Nebula as birthplace
02 Mirror — avatar, double, stained glass
03 Weave — thread as circuit
04 Echo — chrome ritual, couture severity

02

Decks & assets

Outbound sponsorship decks live at /decks/. This guide keeps Pinterest pins for mood; deck heroes and stacks are generated from those refs inside the token system.

Outbound decks

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Partnership
overview

PARTNERSHIP /decks/partnership Open ↗

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Tech
sponsors

TECH /decks/signal Open ↗

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Luxury
presenting

LUXURY /decks/mirror Open ↗

Asset paths

decks/assets/breaks/ — hero + full-bleed section images (generated)
decks/assets/mood/ — mood-stack stills per deck (generated)
decks/assets/hub/ — dispatch preview thumbnails
assets/pins/ — Pinterest mood references (style guide only)
assets/gen/ — generated texture strip (style guide Mood section)
assets/logo-nexus-signal.png — primary lockup · logo-nexus-vanilla.png · logo-nexus-ink.png

Internal dispatch (team routing, targets, Nebula hold): /decks/ · not for sponsor forward.

Partnership deck ↗ Dispatch hub ↗

03

Color

Sampled from your pins — murky bog green, slate + ice blue, chrome + mist. Infrared locked. No purple default.

Void#000000

Ground#141413

Mist#8A7F78

Chromesurface

Slate#4C596B

Ice#A8D8FF

Bog#1E4A38

Infrared#FF4C00

Smoke#C4BBB3

Bog = ominous phosphor green from pins. Slate + ice = the room blue you pinned — environmental only. Infrared = one human pulse. Chrome + mist carry the grey field.

04

Logo

Ship the approved PNG lockups only — NEXUS + star X + square frame + BY PRESAGE. Never rebuild in CSS, Syne, or plain text.

Signal · orange + green BY PRESAGE · hero · decks · marketing

Vanilla · dark void · site bar + footer

Three files

logo-nexus-signal.png — primary brand · outbound decks + print
logo-nexus-vanilla.png — dark backgrounds · UI chrome
logo-nexus-ink.png — light backgrounds · documents

Clear space

×

Minimum height 32px digital · 12mm print. Never crop the square frame or star. Never on busy photography without a void plate.

Download signal PNG Download vanilla PNG Download ink PNG

Archive · do not ship

Legacy chrome mocks and monograms below — mood boards only. Partner-facing work uses the PNG lockups above.

RENDER REFERENCE mirror.axis = vertical chrome mock · not the shipped lockup

NEXUS · matte + mirror

NEXUS · stack · chrome drip

N + X · script chrome

P + S · script chrome

05

Typography

Pairing 03 locked — Syne display, Instrument Sans body, IBM Plex Mono code. KODE brutal editorial.

03

The stack

Role	Font	Get it
Display	Syne · 800	Google Fonts →
Body	Instrument Sans · 400–600	Google Fonts →
Code / stamp	IBM Plex Mono · 400	Google Fonts →

Locked everywhere. Inspiration sites archived — not alternate pairings.

Display

New flesh, woven.

Headline · max 6 words

Identity, rewritten in light.

Body

Invite-only. Three hundred decision-makers. Photography carries every page. Half the layout stays empty.

Code / stamp

NEXUS · NYFW · 09.2026 · PRESAGE NYC

// threshold.state
mirror.active = true;
grid.quantum = "woven";
ir.pulse = #FF4C00;

06

Motifs

Grid · mirror · quantum · code. Surveillance as tension — not the welcome mat.

GRID

Textile logic = circuit logic. PCB lines, runway grid, quantum weave. Use as overlay at 8–12% opacity.

MIRROR

NEXUS

The mirror that thinks. Avatar · double · stained-glass screen. Split reflection, never carnival distortion.

INFRARED

BODY_HEAT_DETECTED

Thermal readout, REC stamp, crosshair corners. One orange pulse per layout — body against cold machine.

CODE

specimen TH-07 :: mirror/avatar
status   veil.thinning = 0.94
alert    threshold.open()

Sapiens-style specimen IDs. Monospace metadata in one corner. Glitch only at threshold moments.

PCB

Thread as circuit. PCB traces, weave grids, runway floor logic. Allowed — never the whole page.

ROBOT

Machine as equal in the atelier — portrait rigs, wireframe avatars, chrome limbs. Couture severity, not toy aisle.

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Imagery & components

What you're looking at on this page — and why each piece exists.

HERO · IR FRAME

Wireframe figure inside a thermal readout frame. Crosshair corners, one REC stamp, hover heat-rise. Conceptual surveillance — not decorative tech.

SMOKE WORDMARK

NE + US in smoke, threshold X as two crossing strokes — a gate, not a letter. Same lockup at every size: hero, deck slide, site bar, contact.

DITHER LAYER

Bayer-ordered noise across the viewport and on imagery hover — dithertone-adjacent texture. Infrared orange pixels, not purple static. Visible on scroll and on pin hover.

MOTIF CARDS

Grid, mirror, IR, code, PCB, target square — each is a reusable module for decks and site. Use one per layout, never as wallpaper.

MOOD CATEGORIES

Four curated lanes from your Pinterest board — weak pins removed. Select a category; concept copy updates below. Click any ref for full image.

TEXTURE OVERLAYS

Infrared-orange gradients with film grain and variability — pulled from your pin refs. Applied on hero, apply mocks, and key photography. Still IR, still one pulse.

07

Mood

Four curated categories — select a lane, read the concept, browse refs.

01 · Threshold

BEFORE THE ROOM OPENS, SOMETHING IS ALREADY READING YOU.

Wireframe bodies, mirror doubles, and surveillance framing — not as decoration, but as tension. These references teach us how NEXUS holds the guest at the edge: half-seen, half-rendered, always one pulse from crossing. Thermal readouts and crosshair corners belong in corners, never as wallpaper. The threshold is where couture meets instrument — cold machine, warm body, one infrared accent per layout.

The membrane is watching