Trulioo head and light beam illustration

Summary

One spot illustration alone on a deep green field: a near black head in profile whose eye emits a pale cone of light that widens backwards and cuts the skull in two.

Visual description

The background is a flat deep green with no texture or gradient. Centred in the upper two thirds sits a head facing left, drawn as a single dark teal silhouette with a rounded crown, a small stepped nose, a chin and a squared neck. There is no ear, no hair detail and no mouth. At the eye position a short horizontal bar sits in two tones, a green outer segment and a coral inner segment, from which a pale ice blue triangle opens rightwards and upwards, widening until it clips the back of the head and takes a wedge out of the silhouette. A second small green wedge sits below and left of the eye bar. Everything is hard edged with no outlines, no shadows and no overlaps other than the beam. Wide empty margins surround the figure on all four sides.

Key takeaway

The beam does two jobs at once, reading as sight leaving the eye and as light carving away the head, which gets a whole idea across with three shapes. Giving a small illustration a very large empty field is what makes it feel like an artwork rather than an icon.

Reuse notes

Reach for this when an abstract concept such as insight, recognition or verification needs a mark that is not a literal icon. Works only on a flat single colour ground with generous margin; dropped into a busy layout it loses the negative space it depends on. The coral accent is the only warm note and should stay that rare.