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Kontour Studios

A Kyiv marketing studio gets a brand system as clear as the work it sells

Client

Kontour Studios

Kontour Studios

Industry

Marketing · Creative agency

Marketing · Creative agency

Services

Brand identity, Web design, Social, Print & merch

Brand identity, Web design, Social, Print & merch

Year

2026

2026

Timeline

10 weeks

10 weeks

Kontour Studios wordmark with its bracket-shaped D, over a black-to-orange gradient

About project

Kontour Studios is a marketing agency in Kyiv that builds brand systems, visual identities and campaigns for its clients — yet its own site, pitch deck and socials each told a different story. Agencian gave the studio a wordmark whose D opens like a bracket, one gradient that runs from Deep Black through Signal Red to Kontour Orange, Montserrat as the only typeface, and a website that leads with a single line: clarity first, then the system.

3.2

×

×

×

inbound project enquiries in the first quarter

inbound project enquiries in the first quarter

58

%

%

%

more reach on Instagram stories

more reach on Instagram stories

10

weeks from kickoff to launch

weeks from kickoff to launch

Montserrat, the one typeface, in four weights

Montserrat, the one typeface, in four weights

Montserrat, the one typeface, in four weights

Montserrat, the one typeface, in four weights

Printed brand books for new clients

Printed brand books for new clients

Printed brand books for new clients

Printed brand books for new clients

Lanyards carrying the brand line

Lanyards carrying the brand line

Lanyards carrying the brand line

Lanyards carrying the brand line

Tote bags for launch events

Tote bags for launch events

Tote bags for launch events

Tote bags for launch events

How it went

Four phases, one team throughout

Four phases, one team throughout

Four phases, one team throughout

Step #1

Discovery

Discovery

2 weeks

2 weeks

Workshops with Kontour’s founder and leads, a review of forty agency sites, and an audit of every place the studio already showed up.

Workshops with Kontour’s founder and leads, a review of forty agency sites, and an audit of every place the studio already showed up.

Positioning

Positioning

Clarity first

Clarity first

Agency audit

Agency audit

40 studios

40 studios

2 weeks

Workshops with Kontour’s founder and leads, a review of forty agency sites, and an audit of every place the studio already showed up.

Positioning

Clarity first

Agency audit

40 studios

Step #2

Identity

Identity

3 weeks

3 weeks

The bracket-D wordmark, the Deep Black to Kontour Orange gradient, Montserrat in four weights, and rules for setting type over portraits.

The bracket-D wordmark, the Deep Black to Kontour Orange gradient, Montserrat in four weights, and rules for setting type over portraits.

Identity system

Identity system

Mark, type, colour

Mark, type, colour

Brand guidelines

Brand guidelines

48 pages

48 pages

3 weeks

The bracket-D wordmark, the Deep Black to Kontour Orange gradient, Montserrat in four weights, and rules for setting type over portraits.

Identity system

Mark, type, colour

Brand guidelines

48 pages

Step #3

Website

Website

3 weeks

3 weeks

A dark, image-led site with the wordmark cropped huge behind portraits, built in Framer and adapted screen by screen for mobile.

A dark, image-led site with the wordmark cropped huge behind portraits, built in Framer and adapted screen by screen for mobile.

Marketing site

Marketing site

Desktop + mobile

Desktop + mobile

Services accordion

Services accordion

Strategy, identity, social

Strategy, identity, social

3 weeks

A dark, image-led site with the wordmark cropped huge behind portraits, built in Framer and adapted screen by screen for mobile.

Marketing site

Desktop + mobile

Services accordion

Strategy, identity, social

Step #4

Rollout

Rollout

2 weeks

2 weeks

Event screens, lanyards, tote bags, printed brand books and a set of Instagram story templates.

Event screens, lanyards, tote bags, printed brand books and a set of Instagram story templates.

Print & merch

Print & merch

Badges, totes, books

Badges, totes, books

Social kit

Social kit

Story templates

Story templates

2 weeks

Event screens, lanyards, tote bags, printed brand books and a set of Instagram story templates.

Print & merch

Badges, totes, books

Social kit

Story templates

The website: clarity first, then the system

The website: clarity first, then the system

Mobile adaptation: hero and services

Mobile adaptation: hero and services

Brand stories for Instagram

Brand stories for Instagram

The team page on tablet

The team page on tablet

Challenges

What we had to solve

What we had to solve

What we had to solve

01

01

01

The cobbler’s children

Kontour built clear brands for its clients while its own site, deck and socials each looked like a different studio.

02

02

02

Loud without the noise

The brand had to hold a 20-metre event screen and still feel calm on a phone in one hand.

03

03

03

One system, many surfaces

Website, Instagram stories, badges, tote bags and pitch decks all had to read as the same studio at a glance.

The new identity on the main stage at launch

The new identity on the main stage at launch

The new identity on the main stage at launch

The new identity on the main stage at launch

What changed

Results

Results

Results

3.2

×

inbound project enquiries in the first quarter

58

%

more reach on Instagram stories

10

weeks from kickoff to launch

A wordmark whose D opens like a bracket: Kontour frames brands, and now its own name says so.

One gradient from Deep Black through Signal Red to Kontour Orange, so every screen, tote and story is unmistakably Kontour.

Montserrat in four weights and one rule — say it clearly first. The homepage opens with “Clarity first. Then the system.”

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Jordan Ellis
Agencian team member
Agencian team member

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