Brand
Brand and press kit
Narrator Check looks like a recording studio because that is where its users work: a calm reading room with a broadcast console running through it. Here is the mark, the colours, the type, the icons and the photographs, with the files to take away.
01 · The mark
A needle over an open book
Three marks were drawn. The first was chosen, because it is the only one that says both halves of the product in one shape: a book, which is what a narrator reads, and a meter, which is what this site does to the recording.
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A · Needle and page Chosen
The only amber element is the needle, so it survives at 16 pixels. The red zone on the scale is the one place the brand uses the tally colour.
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B · Reel
Warm and unmistakably audio, but a reel says “recording”, not “checking”, and the waveform turns to noise below 24 pixels.
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C · Scope
Clear at every size, and generic for exactly that reason: a trace ending in a tick belongs to any app that approves anything.
Lock-ups
Narrator Check
Narrator Check
The wordmark is Narrator in the display serif beside CHECK on an engraved plate, the way a studio machine carries a maker’s name and a model. On a phone the plate folds back into the serif. Keep clear space of half the mark’s height on every side; never recolour the mark or set the name in another face.
02 · Colour
Studio green, meter amber, paper
Green is the anchor and every link and primary control. Amber is light: a meter’s glow, a lit key, never text on paper. Ratios are measured against the surface each colour is used on; every pair clears WCAG AA.
Studio
- Studio green
#17523FLinks and buttons: 7.9:1 on paper; white on it 9.1:1 - Meter glass
#1D6650The mark’s dial; decoration only - Phosphor
#62E39DScope traces on the console: 11.6:1
Console
- Console black
#0E1311Header, title bands, footer - Console panel
#161D19Raised panels on the console - Console ink
#F1EBDFText on the console: 15.8:1 - Brushed aluminium
#C4C9C3–#EEF0ECTrims and faceplate edges
Meter glow
- Meter amber
#F5B13DLit keys and needles: 10.0:1 on the console - Tally red
#FF6B57The red zone, on the console only: 6.7:1
Paper
- Paper
#F4EFE4The page. Ink on it 15.7:1 - Faceplate
#FFFDF8Tools and cards - Recess
#EBE5D7Drop zones and wells. Graphite on it 6.3:1 - Ink
#121815Body text - Graphite
#4A544DSecondary text: 6.9:1 on paper
Verdicts
- Pass
#1A7F335.0:1 on a card; the LED is #4EE07F - Fixable
#8A5A005.8:1 on a card; the LED is #FFB627 - Fail
#B3261E6.4:1 on a card; the LED is #FF5A47
A dark scheme follows the system setting: the paper becomes console black, green lifts to #6FDCA5 (10.2:1 on a dark card) and pass becomes #B8E86B, still a clear channel away from the brand green. A verdict is never carried by colour alone: every lamp has a word and a mark beside it.
03 · Type
A book face, a reading face, an instrument face
Three open-licence faces, served from this site, about 90 KB together. Only the display face is preloaded.
Every chapter, to the spec.
A chapter recorded at −27 dB needs about six decibels, and the order the fix is applied in decides whether it passes.
RMS −20.4 dB PEAK −3.1 dB FLOOR −64 dB
04 · Icons
One line family, one per tool
Drawn on a 24-unit grid with a 1.6 stroke and round ends, and served as one sprite. An icon always sits beside a word.
- Chapter check
- Batch
- Loudness
- Noise
- Mic test
- Room test
- Room tone
- Convert
- Join
- Trim
- Calculator
- Read-back
- Pronunciation
- Proof-listen
- API
- Guide
05 · Photography
Real equipment, one grade
Public-domain photographs of real studio equipment, cropped close and given one grade: a quarter of the colour taken out, blacks lifted into console green, whites warmed to paper. Blurred and darkened when they sit under text. Never a person, never a stock smile.
Sources, authors and licences are on the licences page.
06 · Details
Retro as a detail, not a costume
The studio shows up in small, working parts of the interface, each one doing a job.
The verdict is a lit meter: the needle swings to its zone once, and a lamp repeats the word.
LED lamps mark each measured row: green passes, amber can be fixed here, red cannot.
A tape reel turns while a file is being worked on, and stops for anyone who has asked for less motion.