Il Sigillo
The seal of the house. Two serpents, two swords, a name and one word of Greek, cut by hand and printed in a single ink. This is the book of how it is drawn, what colours it wears, and how it came to be.
Drawn like a stamp, not a logo
The line is allowed to wobble and the impression is allowed to wear, the way a brass stamp prints on paper. Nothing in it is decoration; every part is named.
Black, red, white
One ink per impression. Each colourway downloads as a vector.
The house colours
Four colours, taken from the front of the house. Select one to copy it.
Four voices
The small seal and the device
Below 120 pixels the legend closes up, so the house carries a small seal: ring, serpents and swords only. The device stands alone where a ring would crowd.
Small seal · white
Small seal · black
Small seal · red
Small seal · on red
Device · white
Device · red
The name tab carries the small seal, never the full one.
Full seal from 120 pixels. Small seal from 16 to 120.
How the seal was found
Before the stamp there were ten flat heraldic studies and a ring of two serpents biting each other’s tails. All were set aside. What survived was the idea underneath them: snakes and swords, drawn by hand.
The inheritance
The first emblem: a monogram, two snakes and crossed daggers. The serpents and swords were the part worth keeping.
First impression
Redrawn as an inked house stamp. The serpents climb the blades. Stars and an English motto crowd the ring.
Name only
A study without “House of”: the name larger and wider, the Greek small and open.
Lowercase Greek
The motto written as it would be by hand, with its breathing mark and accent.
Il Sigillo
The official symbol. Stars and tagline removed; one word of Greek beneath the name.