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02** 06**

**Case study**** · Halcyon**

# **A calmer face for a fintech**

A new wordmark, palette and visual language that made a crowded money app feel quiet, clear and trustworthy.

<dl>

<dt>**Client**</dt>
<dd>**Halcyon**</dd>

<dt>**Year**</dt>
<dd>**2025**</dd>

<dt>**Category**</dt>
<dd>**Branding**</dd>

<dt>**Industry**</dt>
<dd><a href="https://promovery.com/industries/finance">Finance </a></dd>

<dt>**Services**</dt>
<dd><a href="https://promovery.com/services/branding-advertising">**Branding &amp; advertising**</a></dd>

</dl>

## 01** The results **

<dl>

<dt>Brand recall</dt>
<dd>3×3×</dd>

<dt>Assets delivered</dt>
<dd>40+40+</dd>

</dl>

Halcyon had a strong product hidden behind a loud, generic fintech look: neon gradients, shiny 3D coins and a name set in four different typefaces depending on who had made the slide.

Their customers told us the same thing in different words: they liked the app, but they didn’t yet trust it with their savings. So we rebuilt the identity around one idea – calm.

The new brand uses a restrained palette, a custom wordmark with softened corners and a visual language of layered, slowly shifting shapes that suggest money in motion without shouting about it. The tone of voice got the same treatment: shorter sentences, no exclamation marks, no jargon.

Everything ships as a design system, so the product team rolled the new look into the app in a single release instead of a year of patchwork.

## **What we did**

**01**

- [**Branding & advertising**Brands people remember, and ads they actually enjoy.](https://promovery.com/services/branding-advertising)

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