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A calm, confident brand for a modern tax practice.

We created the logo and full brand identity for Still Waters Tax Services — turning the name's promise of calm into a wave mark and a layered blue-and-purple palette that feels trustworthy, modern, and reassuring.

Client
Still Waters Tax Services
Industry
Tax Preparation & Advisory
Services
Logo · Brand Identity · Color System · Mark
Location
Houston, TX

The brief: make taxes feel calm, not stressful.

For most people, "taxes" means stress. Still Waters set out to be the opposite — a steady, reassuring partner that brings order to the chaos. The name itself is the promise: still waters.

Our job was to make that promise visible. We designed a wordmark anchored by a three-tier wave mark — calm, layered water — and a palette that moves from deep navy through royal purple to an open, friendly blue. The result feels professional and trustworthy, but warmer and more human than the typical tax firm.

Brand Identity

One wordmark, a whole system.

A confident stacked wordmark with a layered wave mark — built to work in full color, single-color, and reversed across every surface.

Still Waters Tax Services primary logo
Purple primary lockup
Primary — Purple
Navy lockup
Navy
Blue lockup
Royal Blue
One-color black lockup
One-color Black
The Mark

Three waves. Still water.

The standalone wave mark works as an app icon, favicon, or social avatar — calm, layered, and instantly ownable.

Full-color wave mark
Full Color
Reversed wave mark on navy
Reversed on Navy
Reversed wave mark on purple
Reversed on Purple
Color System

From deep navy to open water.

A layered palette that mirrors the wave mark — grounded navy, confident purple, and a calm, approachable blue.

Still Purple
#6F4FB3
Deep Navy
#2B1B6B
Open Blue
#3D8DE5
Ink
#1A1A1A
Purple tints & shades
100%
80%
60%
45%
30%
18%
8%
4%
Blue tints & shades
100%
80%
60%
45%
30%
18%
8%
4%
Typography

Bold, modern, grounded.

Set in Montserrat — a heavy, condensed-feeling display weight for the name, with a clean, calm tracking on "Tax Services" for balance.

Montserrat
Aa Ss Ww
LightDetail
MediumSubheads
BoldEmphasis
BlackWordmark
In the Wild

Built to live everywhere.

From the office door to the client portal — the identity stays calm and consistent across every touchpoint.

Still Waters office signage
Office Signage
Still Waters business card
Business Card
Still Waters app icon
App Icon
Still Waters folder
Client Folder
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