Namooney — Brand Guidelines
Version 1.0 · 2026
namooney — for modern essentials

Good fit, better days. Underwear with room where it matters — and a straight face only when it has to.

Bold.
Playful.
Masculine.
Modern.
Memorable.
01 — The brand

Namooney makes the layer nobody sees and everybody feels. We take the most ignored thing in the drawer, give it real engineering, and refuse to be too serious about it.

Promise

Fit first, physics second. Breathable pouch, no ride-up, no mid-meeting rearranging. Your boys get their own room, not a bunk bed.

Personality

A wink, never a nudge. We will happily make a joke about airflow; we will never make one about you.

Audience

Men 25–45 who upgraded the mattress, the coffee and the chair — and are finally getting to the drawer.

02 — Logo suite

Five approved lockups. Pick by space, not by taste: if the wordmark reads under 90px wide, use the icon.

Stacked primary logo
Primary (stacked)
Horizontal wordmark
Primary (horizontal)
Icon only
Icon only
App icon dark
App icon (dark)
App icon light
App icon (light)
Clear space
Icon with clear space

Keep clear space equal to the height of the bowl of the “o” on all four sides. Nothing — type, edges, product, other logos — enters it.

Minimum sizes
Wordmark minimum sizeWordmark · 24 mm / 120 px
Icon minimum sizeIcon · 10 mm / 48 px

Below these sizes the counters close up in print and the mark turns into a blob. Embroidery: never smaller than 15 mm.

03 — Misuse

The mark is already doing the work. Leave it alone.

Stretched icon
Don't stretch or squash
Rotated icon
Don't rotate or tilt
Recoloured icon
Don't recolour
Low contrast icon
Don't drop contrast
04 — Colour

Four neutrals, no accents. Black and cream carry the brand; charcoal and stone are supporting cast — backgrounds, labels, rules.

Black
#111110
C0 M0 Y4 K93
Pantone Black 6 C
Charcoal
#5A544F
C0 M6 Y13 K65
Pantone Warm Gray 11 C
Stone
#CFC6BB
C0 M5 Y10 K19
Pantone Warm Gray 3 C
Cream
#EFEBE2
C0 M2 Y6 K6
Pantone 7527 C
Cream on black
Good Fit Better Days
Black on cream
Good Fit Better Days
Black on stone
Good Fit Better Days

Ratio guide: roughly 60% cream, 30% black, 10% stone across any surface. Charcoal is for body copy and secondary labels only — never as a large field behind the logo.

05 — Typography

The logotype is the only groovy type in the system. Everything else stays quiet so it doesn't have to compete.

Display · Instrument Serif
Good Fit
Better Days
Campaign lines, hang tags, packaging quotes. Regular and italic only. Tight leading, generous size, sentence case.
Text · DM Sans
Everyday copy: product detail, site, email, care instructions. Regular 400 and Medium 500.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
Label · DM Mono
For Modern Essentials
Size M · 95% Cotton
Uppercase, tracked .18–.24em. Labels, tags, size runs, navigation. Never below 10 px.
H1 · Serif 64/1.05
H2 · Serif 38/1.15
Body · Sans 16/1.6
Label · Mono 11/.22em
06 — Voice

Short sentences, dry wit, one joke per surface. We can say “breathable” and “swamp” in the same paragraph — but the punchline is always the product, never the customer.

We say
“Good fit, better days.”
“Room with a view of nothing.”
“Ventilation: a family value.”
“Ends the 3 p.m. readjustment.”
“Softer by the third wash.”
We don't
Locker-room crudeness or size jokes.
Anything that shames a body.
Performance-tech jargon.
Exclamation marks. Ever.
07 — Ball talk

Comfort is the joke and the product claim at once. Keep it anatomical, not sexual — a doctor could read it out loud.

Green light
“A breeze is a human right.”
“Anti-stick technology, also known as cotton.”
“Two things, one hammock.”

Airflow, temperature, sitting down, long flights, gym bags. Physics jokes age well.

Handle with care
“Chafing is not a personality.”
“Your 3 p.m. self says thanks.”

Fine in email and packaging inserts. Not on shop-window vinyl, not in paid social headlines.

Never
Size jokes. Smell jokes.
Anything with an eggplant.
Anything a 14-year-old would text.

If the laugh comes at the customer's expense, it isn't ours.

Care label voice
Machine wash cold
Tumble dry low
Do not iron — nothing in here needs a crease
Do not bleach
Air out after leg day
Hang tag, reverse
Comfort isn't
a luxury down
there. It's the
whole point.
08 — In the world

One mark, repeated. On product it is the icon; on packaging it is the full lockup with the descriptor.

Waistband with repeating icon
Embroidered icon detail Woven label Round hang tag Black gift box Open box with folded product Cream shopping bag Pair of hang tags Stack of waistbands
WaistbandIcon repeated at even intervals, alternating cream and black on black elastic. 18 mm tall.
Labels & tagsStacked lockup, black on natural cotton. Tagline in serif on the reverse, never on the same face.
PackagingMatte black or uncoated cream only. Foil and gloss are off-brand; texture does the luxury work.
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Questions on usage
brand@namooney.com