A reference library of historic bank, corporate, seal, and privacy/identity marks, collected to inform the REGARDE logo work (the consent gate — "nothing about you, without you."). The brief is trust, and this is the lineage a trust/consent mark should sit inside: notary seals, institutional monograms, and the modernist abstract marks that made organizations feel solid.

66 marks fetched from Wikimedia Commons, organized into four sections with per-mark provenance (designer, year, motif, aesthetic register, why-it-matters). The whole point is aesthetic range — to break out of a single flat-vector default and find genuinely different ways in.

Sections #

Section	Marks	What it teaches	Sheet
Banks & Finance	16	how money signals trust — heraldic animals, swiss slashes, vault geometry	`banks-finance/_sheet-banks-finance.png`
Modernist Designer Canon	19	abstract geometry = institutional solidity (Rand, Chermayeff & Geismar, Bass, Vignelli)	`modernist-canon/_sheet-modernist-canon.png`
Seals · Monograms · Notary	15	the verification grammar closest to a consent receipt — engraved seals, certification roundels, authority monograms	`seals-monograms/_sheet-seals-monograms.png`
Surveillance · Security · Consent	16	the category REGARDE actually competes in — and its clichés to avoid	`surveillance-consent/_sheet-surveillance-consent.png`

How this informs REGARDE #

Four distinct registers to pull the logo toward, instead of the flat-green-on-cream default:

Engraved seal / intaglio — the Great Seal's all-seeing eye, Treasury's scales (1789), the Penny Black. A consent receipt is literally a seal; the anti-surveillance pitch can reclaim the all-seeing-eye as a returned gaze.
Swiss constructivist — Stankowski's Deutsche Bank slash, NatWest's cubes: one geometric idea, growth held in a stable frame.
Heraldic-flattened — Lloyds' horse, Barclays' eagle, UBS's keys: a guardian emblem modernized to flat. A gate-keeper animal is on-brief.
Negative-space / figure-ground — FedEx's arrow, PBS's faces: the meaning hidden in the counter. REGARDE's "you held inside the gate" wants exactly this.

The surveillance-consent section maps the clichés to diverge from: padlocks, blue shields, green checks, fingerprints. REGARDE's opening is to look unlike a security vendor — warmer, more civic, a seal not a shield.

Provenance & use #

These are third-party trademarks, collected from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licenses for design research / moodboard reference only — not for redistribution or any REGARDE deliverable. Each manifest.md lists the source. Tooling: fetch-logos.mjs (collect), lib-data.mjs (captions), finalize.mjs (manifests + contact sheets).