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DFH Commercial

Commercial building hardware is rarely associated with thoughtful branding. DFH Commercial needed an identity that elevated their position beyond commodity supplier—signaling expertise, reliability, and specification-grade quality to general contractors, architects, and facilities managers evaluating vendors for major projects.

Year
2016
Role
Art Director

Brand identity

A door built into the name

An orange lever and a navy jamb line turn the wordmark into an opening, the thing DFH actually sells

Color

  • DFH Navy

    Primary: wordmark, type, card panels

    HEX
    #223061
    RGB
    34 48 97
    CMYK
    100 91 32 22
  • DFH Orange

    Accent: lever, labels, calls to action

    HEX
    #D74620
    RGB
    215 70 32
    CMYK
    11 80 100 2
  • White

    Ground

    HEX
    #FFFFFF
    RGB
    255 255 255
    CMYK
    0 0 0 0

Typography

  • Gotham

    Print and stationery

    • Black
    • Bold
    • Book
    • Light
  • Roboto Condensed

    Website

    • Bold
    • Regular
    • Light