Bassam Al Derazi Design Studio
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Sortex

Client
Sortex
Year
2026

Brand identity for Sortex, a software company that turns scattered data into ordered systems. The emblem sorts four rounded blocks into an S.

Role
Emblem, visual identity, applications

Every ambitious business collects unstructured problems and complex data: the unknowns Sortex calls “X”. Sortex runs them through its own programming logic and sorts them into a working system. The name is the method, sort then X, and the identity is built on it.

Taming the chaos

The identity rests on one move, from disorder to order. On the rationale board, loose bars of unstructured data pass through the emblem and come out as tidy rows of structured data.

Loose sky-blue bars labelled unstructured data, the Sortex emblem in the middle, and the same bars in tidy rows labelled structured data.
From unstructured to structured data

The emblem

Four blocks with rounded ends stack into an S, drawn inside a hexagon. Each block is flat on one side and round on the other, so the mark reads as pieces being put in order. Beside it, the wordmark is set in lowercase.

Construction drawing of the emblem: four rounded blocks drawn in violet lines inside a hexagon.
Emblem construction
The Sortex emblem in white on violet.
The emblem
The violet emblem beside the lowercase wordmark sortex in black.
Emblem and wordmark

Colour

Near-black #0C0C0C is the primary colour, with violet blue #5655F9 and sky blue #8ED7F8 beside it. Three softer tints, #8B8AF0, #BEDDED and #DEE3E7, round out the palette with white and black.

Colour palette: near-black #0C0C0C, violet blue #5655F9 and sky blue #8ED7F8, with #8B8AF0, #DEE3E7, #BEDDED, white and black.
Colour palette

Type and pattern

Ghroob Geometric is the typeface, shown on the type board in Arabic and Latin. The emblem’s outline repeats as a light pattern and stands alone as one large outline.

Type board in Ghroob Geometric: the word sort, an @ sign, 1.5M and Arabic lettering in violet, sky blue and black.
Typography: Ghroob Geometric
A light sky-blue pattern of the emblem’s outlines repeated across a white page.
Supporting pattern
The emblem as a single large violet outline on white.
Large outline

Applications

The identity at work: the emblem as a 3D object, business cards, a document cover, the website and a tote bag.

Two stacks of Sortex business cards, one violet and one in a pale gradient, on a blue background.
Business cards
A hand opening a printed booklet with a Sortex cover in a violet to sky-blue gradient.
Document cover
A laptop on a café table showing the Sortex website, headlined Unlock data collaboration.
Website
A person carrying a violet Sortex tote bag printed with the wordmark, the emblem and the outline pattern.
Tote bag