Trademarks tell the world the source of a good or service. Protecting them for an open-source project matters precisely because anyone can fork the code: limiting use of the RetractorDB trademarks lets users know they’re getting the project’s own product, or a variant it has approved, rather than someone else’s modified version under the same name.
The RetractorDB trademark covers one word mark — RetractorDB — protected under exclusive right R.332224 from the Polish Patent Office.
Word mark
RetractorDB is written as one word, no space. Retractor starts with
a capital letter; DB is always capitals. It’s correct to use a single word in the text: RetractorDB without spaces or dashes. If you want to use the color form, you must follow certain rules. If font is selected - It is set in Ubuntu Italic. “Retractor” is black on a light plane, white on a dark plane. “DB” is always baby blue, #6699FF.
RetractorDB
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Ubuntu:ital,wght@0,300;1,300&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
<i><font face="Ubuntu">Retractor</font><font face="Ubuntu" color="#6699FF">DB</font></i>
The word mark is also available as pre-drawn SVG artwork, in the same two background variants as the device mark below:
Download the light-background version (.svg) · Download the dark-background version (.svg)
Device mark: the scissors
The primary graphic mark is the scissors / “cut-here” lockup — a literal drawing of the de-interleave operator.
The mark is distributed as SVG in two ink variants — black for
light backgrounds, white for dark backgrounds — so it stays crisp
at any size. The pivot ring is always baby blue, #6699FF, in both.
Download the black version (.svg) · Download the white version (.svg)
Usage
- Don’t recolor the device mark outside black / white /
#6699FF. - Don’t distort, rotate, or add effects (shadows, gradients, outlines).
- Keep clear space around the mark of at least one mark-width on every side.
*-onblack.svg(word mark) and*-dark.svg(device mark) variants exist for dark surfaces; don’t place the light variant on a dark background or vice versa.