WSTC 2023 logo lockup on yellow

WSTC 2023 logo lockup on yellow, flat, line-art, vibrant

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The championship logo, a line-drawn globe held between two hands above a solid chess piece, centred on a flat yellow field.

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Summary

The primary vertical logo shown alone on flat yellow: a hand-drawn globe and pair of hands sitting above a solid black chess piece, with the acronym and year stacked beneath.

Visual description

A flat saturated yellow field fills the frame with the mark centred and given generous space on all sides. At the top a globe is drawn in thin open line with a single diagonal band and curved meridians, and two loosely drawn outlined hands reach in from the left and right as if catching or tossing it. Below sits a solid dark chess piece with a flared silhouette and a horizontally divided base, so it reads as both a pawn and a small trophy. Under that, "WSTC" and "2023" are stacked on two lines in a plain grotesque with wide even letterspacing, aligned to the width of the piece above. Everything is drawn in a single near-black.

Key takeaway

Combining an open-line illustration with a solid filled shape gives one mark two textures and keeps it from reading as clip art. The piece doubling as a trophy means the logo says both chess and championship without a second symbol.

Reuse notes

A useful reference for an event mark that has to feel handmade and youthful while still working as a one-colour stamp. The thin globe lines are the weak point at small sizes, so a simplified small-use variant would be needed.

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