GRIDFORM Studio

Every identity project ends the same way: hand-assembling a logo package. Export each variation in color, black, and white; in three sizes; for web and for print; name every file so the client can find things; write a README nobody budgets time for. It is an afternoon of error-prone busywork at the exact moment the creative work is done, and every studio does it slightly differently every time.

GRIDFORM Studio turns that afternoon into a minute. Drop one SVG per logo variation, toggle the outputs you want, and review the exact folder tree — down to every filename — before a single file is written. Print files carry real Pantone spot colors when you name them, so the PDFs and EPSs open in Illustrator as true spot swatches, not CMYK approximations.

The shell follows the studio’s own philosophy: less noise. A black ground, one sidebar, and a wizard that moves in three steps — import, outputs, review. Palette pulls exact fills from an SVG or eyedrops any image, then exports the same colors as CSS and SCSS variables, design-tokens JSON for Figma, Adobe ASE swatches, and a printable swatch sheet with HEX, CMYK, and Pantone for every color. Specimen builds a brand typography page from your own styles, or a classic specimen with character set, weight waterfall, and size ladder, with a live preview as you work.

Every project saves to a home grid, so when the brand changes you reopen it and export again. Nothing leaves the machine: the app never connects to the internet.

The tool that started as a way to stop hand-assembling GRIDFORM’s own deliverables became a product: a cross-platform studio that packages for the Mac App Store and ships installers for Windows and Linux. It is the studio’s design philosophy applied to its own workflow — the noise removed from the last mile of brand work.