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IRONNODE.ai
DESIGN SYSTEM

The visual language for the rented AI network for the jobsite — full-site safety, security and connectivity, deployed on bare dirt from day one.

DIRECTION / Hi-Vis Signal TYPE / Space Grotesk · IBM Plex Mono PRIMARY / #C6F135 REV / 2026.07
01 — FOUNDATION
What we're signalling

Instruments, not decoration.

IronNode builds physical-world AI: solar towers, cameras, connectivity and edge inference that light up a jobsite the moment work starts. The brand should read like the product — a live instrument on an active site. High contrast, high signal, nothing wasted. Every surface behaves like a readout: dark field, one hot accent, data in mono, decisions made obvious.

Live

The site is on. Pulses, pings and status chips convey a system that's actively watching, not a static logo on a page.

Instrumented

Mono readouts, coordinates, reticles and grids. We frame the world the way our cameras do — bounded, measured, labelled.

Hi-Vis

Signal lime is a safety color, not a trend. It borrows the language of the jobsite: see it from across the site, act on it fast.

03 — COLOR
Signal palette

One dark field. One hot signal.

The system runs on a near-black field so the signal reads like a live readout. Lime is the only "loud" color and it's rationed — reserve it for the single most important thing on any surface. Amber, hazard-red and link-cyan are functional states, not decoration: they mean caution, alert and connectivity respectively.

BG/00
Void
#0B0C0E
Primary background
BG/10
Deck
#121417
Cards, panels
BG/20
Steel
#191D22
Raised surfaces, headers
LINE
Hairline
#282E35
Borders, grid, dividers
ACCENT
Signal Lime
#C6F135
Primary accent, CTAs, live
ACCENT/2
Deep Lime
#A8D620
Hover, gradient end, on-light
DATA
Link Cyan
#38E1FF
Connectivity, data viz, secondary
STATE
Caution Amber
#FFB020
Warnings, review states
STATE
Hazard Red
#FF4D2E
Detections, critical alerts
TEXT
White
#F4F6F4
Primary text on dark
TEXT/60
Fog
#9BA3AB
Secondary text
TEXT/40
Dim
#5E6771
Metadata, mono labels
RATIO GUIDE — ~72% void + deck field  ·  ~20% white + fog type  ·  ~6% signal lime  ·  ~2% functional states (amber / hazard / link).
ON-LIGHT — for legible lime text on white use #5A7A0A (AA pass); pure #C6F135 is fill-only on light. Lime fills (buttons, blocks) stay #C6F135 with dark ink on top.
04 — TYPE
Typography

Display grotesk. Mono data. Clean body.

A three-part system. Space Grotesk for display and headlines — geometric, wide, engineered. IBM Plex Mono for labels, stats, coordinates and anything that should feel like a machine readout. Inter for body copy at length. This is a hard break from the old Arial Black system.

Display / H1
Deployed on bare dirt.
Space Grotesk
700 · 44–86px
-1 to -2px track
Heading / H2
Live safety from day one
Space Grotesk
600 · 26–34px
Label / Kicker
THE PROBLEM // 01
IBM Plex Mono
500 · 11–13px
3px track · UPPER
Body
A single operator stands up a full node — solar tower, cameras, Starlink/5G/mesh and edge AI — in minutes, with no power and no network on site.
Inter
400 · 15–17px
1.7 line-height
Data callout
$8kHARDWARE /
~5-MO PAYBACK
Stat: Space Grotesk 700
Label: Plex Mono / Dim
05 — MOTIFS
Graphic language

Draw the world like a sensor.

A small kit of repeatable devices carries the brand without leaning on the logo. Use them sparingly — one dominant motif per surface.

Detection reticle

Corner-bracket frames around a subject, stat or photo — the CV bounding box. Signals "we see this."

Signal ping

Concentric sonar rings from a node point. Denotes a live, broadcasting deployment. Use in cyan (data) or lime (live).

Hazard rule

Amber/void diagonal stripe as a divider or emphasis bar. Borrowed from site safety tape — used for caution, never for brand fill.

Sensor grid

Faint measurement grid as a background texture. Grounds every layout in a coordinate field.

◤ NODE-07 ◥
LAT 33.9192 · LON −118.4165
EL SEGUNDO · CA
STATUS: ARMED · 04:31 UPTIME

Coordinate tag

Mono metadata blocks — node ID, lat/lon, status, uptime. Turns any element into a piece of field telemetry.

● LIVE ⚑ REVIEW ▲ ALERT

Status chips

Three states, three colors: lime live, amber review, red alert. The core UI vocabulary of the product and the brand.

06 — COMPONENTS
Building blocks

Parts that snap together.

Buttons

Primary = signal on void. One per view.

Stat readouts

<1 day
to full-site live
70%+
recurring margin

System status

● LIVENode-07 · cameras streaming
⚑ REVIEWFall-protection flag · human verify
▲ ALERTPerimeter breach · Gate C

Detection card

CAM-03 · NW TOWER● REC
NO HARD HAT · 0.94
1440×900 · 33.919, −118.416
!
Real-time hazard alert — Missing fall protection detected on Level 3. Supervisor notified · evidence time-stamped.
07 — VOICE
Voice & tone

Specs over superlatives.

We sell to GCs, program managers and site operators — people who value brevity and proof. State capabilities, cite numbers, skip the hype. If a sentence doesn't add information, cut it.

Say this
  • "Full-site safety, security and connectivity — live from day one."
  • "Deploys on bare dirt with no power and no network."
  • "Flags OSHA hazards in real time; humans verify every alert."
  • "~$8k hardware, ~5-month payback, 70%+ recurring margin."
  • "Every rented tower sharpens one hazard-detection model."
Not this
  • "Revolutionary AI-powered safety paradigm."
  • "Leveraging synergies across the jobsite ecosystem."
  • "Next-gen disruptive construction-tech platform."
  • "Seamless, holistic, end-to-end AI transformation."
  • "Cutting-edge solutions that reimagine the future of work."

Proof, then claim

Lead with the number or the detection. Let the data carry the sentence.

Operator-plain

Write like an engineer who's stood on the site, not a marketer who read about it.

Two audiences, one voice

The same plain, specific language earns trust from a GC and a defense PM alike.

08 — APPLICATIONS
In context

The system, deployed.

Website / product nav
Business card
Pitch slide
App icon · dark + signal