The question this sheet answers is “what makes the shape recognisably Equinox’s?” so that no option can be met with that is not my shape. Every figure below is drawn from the Brand Kit mark's own geometry — the four circles, their radii, their positions — in one shared 400-unit grid, and no option introduces a colour that is not in the palette.
The finding, and it is the whole sheet in one line: their circles are DIFFERENT SIZES and they are OFFSET. They share a lower-left origin and grow up and to the right. They are not concentric. That single relationship is what a viewer recognises, long before they could tell you how many rings there are — which is why variation 4, two offset circles, already reads as theirs, and why the control at the bottom does not, despite using the same four radii.
Each option is shown twice: the figure alone, so the shape can be judged, and in place at the page edge at the opacity it would actually run at. The in-situ panels use the same content-column anchoring as home-A-v2.html, so the figure can never sit behind text.
Two things worth knowing before choosing. The Brand Kit's mark uses a slate that is lighter than NIGHT and a gold lighter than CONFIDENCE — the mark and the palette are not quite the same set. Everything here uses the palette, so it will read slightly cooler than the logo file. And the more faithful an option is, the closer it comes to the line where a decoration becomes a second logo: variations 6 and 7 are the ones to watch on that.
1One ringThe slate ring alone, even stroke.
The least it can be and still be theirs. One circle claims nothing about the mark's arrangement, so there is nothing to get wrong — but it is also the option a client is most likely to say could belong to anyone.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
2One ring, gold, fadingThe outer ring alone, with the mark's own fade.
The gold ring in the Brand Kit fades out towards its top right. Taking one ring and keeping that fade is more specific than taking one ring plain — the fade is a property of their mark, not a generic circle.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
3One ring, as a bandThe same circle at four times the stroke weight.
Not a line but a band. The mark's slate ring is already its heaviest stroke, so weight is a property worth exaggerating rather than inventing. At the page edge it reads as a curved field of colour rather than an outline.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
4Two rings, offsetThe smallest arrangement that is recognisably the mark.
The one relationship that makes the shape theirs is that the circles are different sizes and OFFSET, not concentric. Two circles is the minimum that states it. If the client can only accept one thing from this sheet, this is the thing to keep.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
5Three ringsThe mark minus its innermost circle.
The outer gold, the blue and the slate, in the mark's own positions. Drops only the small inner ring, which is the one that reads as detail rather than structure and the first thing to go when the figure is cropped anyway.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
6Four rings — the figure in v2All four, flat brand colours.
What home-A-v2.html carries now. The most faithful to the arrangement, and the most likely of any option to be read as the logo if it were ever shown uncropped at full strength.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
7Four rings, with the mark's gradientsThe gold fades; the blue runs light to deep.
The Brand Kit mark does not use flat colour: the gold fades out and the blue runs from FREEDOM into BUSINESS. Reproducing that is the most literal derivation on this sheet — which makes it the hardest to dispute and the closest to the line where a decoration becomes a logo.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
8Arcs, not circlesEach ring cut to the segment that would show anyway.
At the page edge most of every circle is clipped, so this draws only what survives. It removes the risk of a full circle appearing whole on a very wide screen and reads as a gesture rather than a mark. The cost is that the offset relationship is harder to see.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
9Discs, not ringsThe same circles filled instead of stroked.
Filled at low opacity the shapes overlap into soft fields of colour. It keeps the sizes and the offsets — the two things that make the shape theirs — and drops the outline entirely, so it can never be mistaken for the mark. The quietest option here by some distance.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
10One disc, two ringsA filled circle behind two outlines.
Mixing the two treatments gives the figure a centre of gravity the all-stroke versions do not have. It is the most designed-looking option, which is either the point or the objection: it makes a composition out of the mark rather than quoting it.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
!Concentric — the controlThe same four radii, sharing one centre.
Drawn to be rejected. This is what the mark becomes if the offsets are dropped, and it is the mistake anyone redrawing it from memory makes. It is a target, a dartboard, a ripple — anything but Equinox. Put it beside variation 4 and the offset stops being a detail and becomes the whole point.
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The figure sits outside the text column at 20%. Nothing here is behind a word at any width.
If one option has to be defended to the client, defend the offset. Number of rings, stroke weight, gradient, fill, arc — all of those can move without the shape stopping being theirs. Drop the offset and it stops immediately, whatever else is kept.