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Brand guidelines
How Dorm Room Fund is built: the logo, the colour, the type, the grid, the components, and the motion, with the files to use them.
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A door standing ajar beside the name set in three stacked lines. It is one drawing: the door and the wordmark are a single compound path, so the lockup can never come apart or drift.

Anatomy
The doorThe mark

The frame is the doorway; the opening is the panel swung aside. The panel's two left corners are square, the two right corners round. That asymmetry is the mark: it is what makes it a door and not a phone.

The wordmarkNever alone

Dorm, Room, Fund on three lines, drawn as outlines at the size and spacing of the lockup. It does not appear without the door, and it is not reset in Satoshi: the letterforms are the logo's own.

Clear spaceOne panel width
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Keep a margin equal to the width of the door's panel on every side. Nothing enters it: not type, not a photograph's edge, not another logo.

On every ground
Lockup on inkPrimary
Lockup on lavenderLight ground
Lockup on purpleCards and hero
Mark on orangeAction
Mark on elevatedPlates
Mark on whitePartners and print

One drawing, one colour at a time: lavender on dark grounds, ink on light ones. The kit derives every version from the same file, so there is nothing to keep in sync.

Misuse
Do not round the left corners

This was the old mark. The panel's left corners are square now; anything rounded is out of date.

Do not stretch

Scale proportionally, always.

Do not two-tone

One colour per lockup. The door and the name are the same ink.

Do not tilt or outline

The door stands upright and solid. No strokes, no shadows, no effects.

Minimum size
28 pixels tall on screen, 8 millimetres in print

Below that the panel's opening closes up. Use the mark alone when the lockup would have to go smaller.

Files

Every variation is below, generated from the one drawing: the lockup and the mark on every ground as SVG, PNG and PDF, one-colour files on transparent, squares for favicons and social, and covers for every platform.

Every file
The lockup and the mark on every ground
Squares

Favicon, web clip and social square, the mark at 55% of the side on each ground.

Covers

Platform sizes with the art centred in each platform's safe area (dashed in the preview, not in the file). Pick the art and the ground.

PNGs render at 2048 wide (variations) or at exact size (squares, covers). PDF needs a network connection for the exporter.

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Color
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Ink
The ground#1c1525
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Lavender
Text on ink, and the light ground#d9d5df
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Purple
The signature: hero, cards, links#9378ee
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Orange
Action only, and the founder’s position#ff6a33
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Elevated
Plates and surfaces on ink#3e344c
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Lavender lightest
Alternate light ground#f1eff4
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Lavender muted
Secondary ground#b8b0c4
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Purple light
Inside purple only#a892f2
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Purple pale
Inside purple only#b9a8f5
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Navy
Legacy, retire#080331
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White
Type on the deepest grounds#ffffff
Proportion
Mostly ink, then lavender, then purple. Orange is rare and means something.

Ink is the ground and lavender is the voice on it. Purple is the signature: the hero card, the company cards, the link colour, the one bright band on a page. Elevated is the surface that sits on ink without leaving it. Orange is action and the founder's own position in a graphic, so it appears once per moment and never as a ground for reading. The two paler purples exist only inside purple, for a hover or a ring.

The bands
Five grounds a section can sit on, and what action looks like on each

The site is built from bands. Each carries its own text colour and its own idea of a button, so orange is the action on ink and elevated, and ink is the action on purple and lavender. No two neighbouring sections share a ground.

Ink

The default. Most of every page.

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Purple

Hero, closing ask, the one bright band.

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Elevated

Plates and graphics on ink.

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Lavender

The conversion moment, the brightest text band.

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Muted

Secondary cards, the FAQ.

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Pairings
Which colours can carry words

Three groups, measured live. The first works for anything, including small body copy. The second holds only at headline sizes. The third is never for words: shapes and fills only. Each tile shows the pairing at the size it is allowed, with its contrast ratio.

Use at any sizeBody copy, labels, headlines. The everyday set.
Headlines onlyHolds at 24 pixels and up. Never paragraphs, never buttons.
Never for wordsShapes, fills, and graphics only.
Tokens
The names the build uses

These are the Webflow variables, one to one. Design in these names and the handoff is already done.

Text / Primary#d9d5df
Text / Secondary#1c1525
Text / Super mutedlavender 50%
Background / Primary#1c1525
Background / Secondary#b8b0c4
Background / Alternate#f1eff4
Background / Elevated#3e344c
Background / Light#d9d5df
Background / Accent#ff6a33
Background / Card#9378ee
Border / Primary#ff6a33
Link / Primary#9378ee
Button / Primary#ff6a33 on ink
Button / Secondary#3e344c
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Typography
Satoshi
Satoshi Medium, the only display faceSet at 30 viewport widths, tracked minus 6Get Satoshi on Fontshare
One family
Satoshi

A geometric grotesk with warmth in the round letters and a slightly narrow set that lets headlines run long without shouting. It does everything: display, body, labels, numbers. One family means every surface, from the site to a deck to a social cover, is recognisably the same hand.

Two weights
400 and 500

Regular for reading. Medium for headlines, buttons, and emphasis. That is the whole system: the build serves exactly these two, so there is no bold and no light. When something needs more weight, give it more size or more room, not a heavier face.

AMedium
gRegular
RMedium
9Regular
The alphabet
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
The best time to find us is before the answer is obvious. First check, full conviction. A network that does not graduate.
Regular 400You already know who's building the future.
Medium 500You already know who's building the future.
The scale

Display sizes are Medium at 1.1 line height, tracked minus four percent; the biggest two tighten to minus five. Body sizes are Regular at 1.5. Labels of 14 pixels and under may run in capitals, tracked slightly open; nothing larger ever does.

Display huge 82
The first yes.
Display large 72
Built for this stage
Display medium 56
A network that does not graduate
Display small 24
What happens after graduation?
Display xs 20
Do you only invest in students?
Body large 20
We back students and recent graduates before the market catches up.
Body 18
You will meet with two of our student investment partners first, then pitch your regional team.
Body regular 16
Check sizes range from $90K to $500K, and we are often the first money in. Standard terms, no surprises.
Small 14 · caps
First customer · Series A
Tiny 12
Dorm Room Fund © 2026
Display and body, together
The best time to find us is before the answer is obvious

We back founders still in school or just out while the idea is taking shape, then stay useful as the company does.

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Layout
The grid
Every section is a card, inset 12 pixels on ink

There is no full-bleed section. The page is ink, and each section is a rounded card sitting on it with a 12 pixel margin on every side, which is also the gap to the next card. Cards run the full width of the page; their content sits in a 1280 pixel container.

Measurements
12
Page margin and card gap

The one number the whole page hangs on. Cards never touch the viewport edge or each other by more or less.

80 · 32 · 16
Card inner padding, horizontal

Desktop, tablet, phone. It is the hero's padding, so every card's copy starts on the same vertical line as the hero's headline.

152 · 96 · 64
Section padding, vertical

Desktop, tablet, phone. Generous on purpose: four big sections beat ten thin bands.

1280 · 1024 · 768
Containers

Content width inside a card at the three breakpoints. Cards themselves are always full width.

32
Gutter and card padding

The gap between columns in a grid, and the padding inside a small card such as a company tile.

8
Gap inside a card grid

Tiles, stat cards and quote cards sit 8 apart: tight enough to read as one object, open enough to count.

Radii
Three, and they mean size

20 for a card or a section. 12 for a button, a nav tile, a numeral chip, a plate's inner panel. 999 for a pill label. Nothing is square, and nothing is rounder than its size deserves.

Grounds in sequence
No two neighbours share a ground

Down a page the cards alternate: purple hero, then ink or elevated, then lavender for the moment that matters most, muted for the FAQ, elevated for the closing ask. The lavender card is the brightest text band on the page, so there is exactly one per page and it carries the conversion. Orange is never a section ground; it is a card inside one.

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Components
Buttons
Two buttons, three sizes, one hover

Primary is orange with ink type. Light is lavender-lightest with ink type, for purple and lavender grounds. Large is 56 tall with 32 of side padding, medium 44 and 16, small 32 and 12; 12 radius throughout, Medium weight, sentence case. Every button wipes on hover: the colour slides out toward the top-right and leaves the outline, on the .85 second curve. There is no ghost button and no bold.

On ink and elevatedHover
On purple and lavenderHover
Chips, pills and tiles
Numeral chip44 × 44 · 12
123

Purple with an ink numeral. Marks an ordered step; never used on the three pillars, which are reasons, not steps.

Label pill14 caps · 999
MVPFirst customerSeries A

Plate-coloured, so it knocks a line out where it sits. The only place type runs in capitals.

Nav and footer tiles12 · 20
Apply

The nav is three 80 pixel tiles, 4 apart: logo on muted, orange Apply, ink menu with a 10% lavender edge. The footer is the same tile language at card scale.

Cards
500+alumni
Value cardLavender
First check, full conviction

Copy left, graphic right, 20 radius, 80 padding. The plate on elevated is the same card on a dark ground.

Alumni tileElevated · 20
Talia Goldberg
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
FAQ row
Do you only invest in students?
We invest in current students and recent alumni, generally up to two years post-graduation. That includes undergraduates, graduate students, MBAs, and PhDs.
How much does DRF invest, and how does the deal work?+
Do I need an MVP?+

Rows on the muted card, 12 radius, 32 side padding; the open row goes lavender-lightest; one open at a time; the icon is a 28 pixel plus that rotates to a minus.

Composed
You already know who's building the future. Here, you get to back them.
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A network that does not graduate

Once DRF invests, you also gain the support of the DRF team and a wider community of founders, operators, and investors.

320direct advisors
1,800questions answered
640connections made
45first hires sourced
500+alumni
80%of alumni become founders or VCs
50%of partners are female or nonbinary
Open the siteThe pages themselves are the reference, with the motion running.
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Motion

Everything opens. That is the whole motion language. New colour arrives from a corner and slides home; a number climbs to its value; a line draws itself and a dot rides its tip. One curve, one duration, and the founder's position is always the orange thing. The door itself moves in exactly one place, the footer, and that is the footer's job, not a motion device to borrow.

The wipeHover the buttons

A layer of the arriving colour waits off the bottom-left corner and slides to cover the button over .85 seconds, the label crossfading over .35 as the ground changes under it. Orange things wipe to ink, ink things wipe to orange, and the purple call to action wipes out toward the top-right, leaving an outline. Nothing else on the site is a hover.

The curveOne easing, everywhere

cubic-bezier(.22, 1, .36, 1) over .85 seconds. Fast out of the gate, then a long settle with no bounce. The same curve moves the wipes, the hero door, the labels, and the count-ups; springs are reserved for the door panel alone.

The countNumbers arrive, they are not printed
0+

A statistic counts up from zero when it scrolls into view, on the same decelerating curve, over about 1.4 seconds. Once. Tabular figures so nothing jitters.

Graphics
Find the orange. That is you.

The How We Work graphics follow one colour contract so they read as one instrument. Purple is what DRF already believes, and it never moves. Lavender is what the founder can show today, thin and partial. Orange appears exactly once per graphic, always on the founder's own position: the dot that leaves the dotted circle and rides the curve off the top of the card; the pulse at the origin. When a new graphic is needed, it inherits this contract before it inherits anything else.

Downloads
Everything in one place

Logo

The lockup and the mark as SVG, one colour, ready to recolour. The panel's left corners are square: if yours are round, it is the old file.

Every variation

Both marks on every ground as SVG, PNG and PDF, one-colour files on transparent, favicons and web clips, and social covers for LinkedIn, Facebook, X, YouTube and link previews.

Typeface

Satoshi by the Indian Type Foundry, free for commercial use through Fontshare. Regular and Medium only.

Color

The eleven values as CSS variables, plus the token names the build uses.

The site and the system

Wireframes, the design system, and this book live together and update as the brand does.