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(Case study)02 · Brand identity

Rival AviationPrivate charter · Brand identity

A brand identity for a private charter platform: a purely typographic wordmark, a night-navy palette and one gold accent. The brand comes first, the website is next.

Client
Rival Aviation
Sector
Brand identity
Services
Brand identity
Year
2026
Rival Aviation brand guidelines as a printed booklet, with loose pages and business cards

Rival Aviation is a private charter platform for people who move faster than the industry built to serve them: transparent pricing, real empty-leg deals and straight answers, where traditional brokers trade on opacity.

The brand comes first, then the website. The identity had to communicate one thing, effortless command: private aviation reduced to its essentials, precise, calm, nothing decorative.

Charter brokers default to daylight palettes: sky blue, red and white. Rival goes to night, the hours its clients actually fly, with a midnight navy as the canvas and gold kept to a tenth of any composition.

(What we did)
  1. (01)

    Brand strategy and positioning: modern luxury, without the ceremony

  2. (02)

    The wordmark: RIVAL in Ivy Mode at wide tracking, AVIATION between two hairlines. No icon, no emblem

  3. (03)

    Colour: Midnight Approach, Cabin Gold and Cloud Cream, with the share each may take

  4. (04)

    Typography: Ivy Mode where the brand speaks, Outfit for everything functional

  5. (05)

    Brand guidelines with usage rules for navy, cream, photography and engraving

  6. (06)

    Applications mocked up on terminal signage, stationery and an app icon

(The brand guidelines)

6 pages
Rival Aviation brand guidelines, coverRival Aviation brand guidelines: brand strategy and positioningRival Aviation brand guidelines: the wordmark, clear space and minimum sizeRival Aviation brand guidelines: Midnight Approach, Cabin Gold and Cloud CreamRival Aviation brand guidelines: Ivy Mode and OutfitRival Aviation brand guidelines: usage on navy, cream, photography and engraving

(In short)

A brand with no icon, no crest and no jet. The website is next.

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