Ludus

Because why still using Powerpoint?

Ludus is one of the new presentation tool that you wan use to make great slides. Yes, for real. Mixing very simple features with more designer targetted ones, Ludus brings presentations to the nex level.

Existential time leads to existential questions

There were some pretty big changes at Ludus. As usual when that happens, it's always good to make sure that we all agree on what the brand should be. Let's not get into too many details here but after several meetings and workshops we all agreed that:

Ludus is a playground, the magical and smart platform where talented teams collectively enhance their brand daily and cast it to wow the world.

The next question was of course: does Ludus need a visual re-branding? You don't really want to change something that's not that old nor terrible. That being said, we saw several issues with the previous branding.

Where's my wordmark?

Ludus's logo was only a symbol. A pretty nice symbol. But for people who saw this geometric shaped L and didn't know anything about the company, they were like “Yup, I have no idea what to type in Google to find what that is.”

Expanding the visual system

The shapes

If you've been using and following Ludus for a while now, you might remember that we used geometric-based illustrations. We used geometric-shaped animals. Geometric-custom-based typeface. Geometry everywhere.

However, we felt that the whole animal realm was taking too much space and attention (and a looooot of time to create ^^).

But these geometric shapes still represent Ludus' identity: building, creating, being rigorous while being playful. And we did not want to ditch that at all.

Therefore, we decided to go more abstract and leave more space to the product itself. At the same time, we're still creative. That's why we introduced naive illustrations to visualize features from our product.

Colours

To match this new cycle of life, we thought we might expand the color palette as well. All of Ludus colors were all very saturated and we wanted to tone some of them down to create a better balance between the playfulness and the confidence.

We kept the original blue and infused some into the black. We kept the contrast with a new secondary coral color to bring positivity and friendliness. We added as well a range of new tertiary and UI colors.

Finally, we used to work with a lot of gradients in our marketing assets. We decided to go back to basics and use plain colors.

A beautiful typeface to rule them all

Finally, we also thought of bringing some new blood into the typography. We were looking for a typeface to be bold, confident while playful and energetic. Well, that's exactly the definition of Bossa. How cool is that?!