Purpose

Akrites exists to close the gap between how fast vulnerabilities are found and how fast they can be fixed.

AI has made discovery cheap and fast. Disclosure is still chaotic. Maintainers, often one or two people sustaining software that millions depend on, absorb the flood: duplicate reports, competing timelines, and organizations racing for credit before patches are ready. Akrites changes the structure of that problem. It brings critical infrastructure operators, their vendors, and security teams into one confidential coordination facility, so the open source ecosystem gets one organized partner instead of a hundred independent ones.

The name comes from the Akritai, the Byzantine frontier guardians who held the edges where threats arrived first and defenses were thinnest. That’s the position Akrites takes: beside the maintainers, upstream, where it matters most.

Brand Attributes

Disciplined
Akrites operates on structure and protocol. TLP classifications, synchronized disclosure windows, one front door — everything runs on defined process because undisclosed vulnerabilities are weapons, and weapons require discipline to handle.

Collective
No single organization scanning in isolation makes this better. Akrites is built on the belief that shared infrastructure requires shared defense. The work is done together, or it isn’t done well.

Upstream
Akrites positions itself at the source — not responding to incidents after the fact, but intervening before a vulnerability becomes a crisis. The orientation is always toward the origin, toward the maintainers, toward the commons.

Substantive
Technical contribution is the price of admission. Akrites doesn’t convene observers — it convenes builders and fixers. This shapes everything: who belongs, how value is defined, what participation means.

Protective without being alarmist
The threat is real and the stakes are high, but Akrites communicates with the calm of an institution that has a plan. It doesn’t traffic in fear; it traffics in coordination.

Clearspace

Give the logo room to breathe. Keep a clear margin of one grid layer, marked “A” in the diagram, on all sides of the logo. Nothing else should enter this space: no type, images, or edges. The same rule applies to the symbol and to every lockup.

Partnership Lockups

For partnership lockups, pair our logo with a partner’s logomark, symbol, or icon. Use our logo’s height as the base for all measurements, and separate the two with a vertical bar 1.5 times the symbol’s height. Keep at least the minimum clearspace between each element so both brands feel equally present and respected.

Watchouts

To preserve the integrity and effectiveness of our brand, it’s crucial to use the our logo consistently and as intended. The following examples illustrate common misuses to avoid.

Symbol

Our symbol is three overlapping shields. The center shield carries a stylized “A”; the two outer shields stand beside it. Together they represent the frontier guard, standing watch with others.

Use the symbol on its own as a shorthand for the brand where a full lockup isn’t practical, such as social media avatars, app icons, and other small applications. It may also appear on select swag, where a bold standalone mark has more impact.

Symbol in Shape

For avatars, app icons, and other contained uses, the symbol may sit inside a geometric shape, such as a circle or rounded square. Follow the clearspace rule and keep one additional grid layer between the symbol and the edge of the shape.

Primary Palette

Our visual foundation is Deep Indigo and White. Together they create a high-contrast visual language that’s striking and functional, with optimal readability and a clean, professional feel. This restrained palette lets our logo stand out.

Secondary Palette

Our primary palette is supported by a secondary palette of Lilac and Amber. Together, these tones add warmth and energy while keeping the logo the focal point. Use Lilac for accents on dark backgrounds, such as buttons, highlights, and callouts, and Amber sparingly, for a single point of emphasis.

Typography

Our typographic system is built on Saira, for a clean, consistent feel across all brand communications. Saira is open source and free to use.

Use Saira Medium for headlines and Saira Regular for body copy. Set eyebrows and labels in Saira Medium, all caps, with slightly wider letter spacing.

Our type scale doubles from five root sizes (8, 9, 10, 12, and 16), so 8 becomes 16, 32, 64, and 128, and 12 becomes 24, 48, and 96. This gives a full range of sizes for precise, consistent hierarchy.

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Legal

By using Akrites brand materials you agree to the Linux Foundation Terms of Use, the Trademark Usage Guidelines, these Akrites branding guidelines, and all Akrites rules and policies as may be updated from time to time. You also acknowledge that Akrites is the sole owner of Akrites trademarks, promise not to interfere with Akrites ‘s rights in them, and acknowledge that goodwill derived from their use accrues only to Akrites . Akrites may review use of the branding materials at any time and reserves the right to terminate or modify any use.

In general

For those using Akrites brand materials on a site external to Akrites, please don’t use our name, logos, or screenshots (“brand materials”) in ways that may be confusing, misleading, or suggest our sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation. For example, your name and logo should be more prominent than the Agentic AI Foundation name or logo. And please don’t edit or change the Akrites logo — we like it how it is!

Advertising, promotional, and sales materials

Please check in with us before using our logo on websites, products, packaging, manuals, or for other commercial or product use. It’s ok to say in text “Member of the Agentic AI Foundation” or “Akrites Member” (as long as it’s true!)

Education and instruction (books, guides, publications, and conferences)

You can use our brand materials for educational and instructional purposes but please remember that it shouldn’t be confusing, misleading, or suggest our sponsorship. For example, we generally don’t allow use of our logos or screenshots on book covers.

Also remember to include this statement (or something like it) in your printed materials: “[Title] is not affiliated with or otherwise sponsored by Akrites.”

Products, websites, names, and logos

Please don’t use our name as a part of your company or service name, website name, trade name, or product name. Don’t use our logo or incorporate our logo into yours. Don’t use a domain name containing “akrites” or any confusingly similar words.

Linking to Akrites

If you want to promote your organizations affiliation with Akrites you can use our logo if it meets our guidelines. For example, “[Company Name] is a member of [linked logo].”

Merchandise

While we do produce lots of t-shirts for our events that have our logo on them, we don’t generally allow third parties to make, sell, or give away anything with our name or logo on it.

Attribution

Please include appropriate attribution of Akrites’s ownership of its trademarks when you use them. This attribution notice can be included in the fine print at the bottom of your content. An example is, “Akrites and the Akrites logo design are registered trademarks of the Linux Foundation.”

More questions?

Feel free to email questions to marketing@akrites.org. It helps if you send a mockup of your intended use so we can be specific in our response. We’ll do our best to get back to you ASAP but please give us two weeks (please note that no response doesn’t mean approval.) We’re currently only able to respond to inquiries made in English.