Ryan Perez · Marks & attribution

One seal. Every property. No exceptions.

The Bow Tie Kreative seal appears in the navbar beside the site name, and the attribution line sits in the footer of every site the studio ships. Both are non-optional. This page holds the mark, the lockups, the favicon set as real files, and the head tags that install them.

Est. 2002 on the seal. Bow Tie Kreative trading since 2013, Calgary.
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Anatomy

Five parts, none removable

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The seal is a single locked artwork. Nothing inside it is repositioned, recoloured or used on its own — except the shield, and only at favicon scale.
Space & scale

Clear space is a quarter of the diameter

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Misuse

Eight things that are never done to it

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Required

Symbol, then site name

Seal on the left at 32–36px, twelve pixels of gap, then the site name in Inter 600 at −0.03em. The seal never sits alone in a navbar, and the name never sits alone either.
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Lockup rules

Seven, and they are mechanical

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Markup

The lockup, once

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The seal is decorative next to a text name that already says who this is, so its alt text stays empty and the link carries the accessible name.
Required on every site

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Bottom legal row, left-aligned, beside the copyright. Seventeen-pixel seal, muted label, the domain carried in ink at 600 so it reads as the link it is. It ships on client sites and on the studio's own properties alike.
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Attribution rules

Eight, including when it comes off

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Markup

The attribution line

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Why the link is not nofollow A studio credit in a footer is an editorial statement of authorship, not a paid placement. It stays a normal link. If a client ever pays for placement or trades it for a discount, it becomes sponsored and takes rel="sponsored" — that is a commercial decision, not a design one.
The set

Nine files, shown at real size

Every icon is generated from the seal, inverted to white, on the canvas colour so it survives both browser themes. Small sizes use the shield; large sizes use the whole seal.
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The 16px problem

Why the favicon is not the seal

At tab scale the seal's laurel, ring of dots and double border collapse into a grey ring. The shield survives because it is three shapes and a word.
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Install

Head tags, complete

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