Branding & Style Guide
Official naming conventions, logos, and colours for the LightningPiggy open-source project.
Naming
LightningPiggy
No space, CamelCase — the canonical form.
Use for:
- • Project and repository references
- • Code (classes, functions, variables, filenames)
- • Usernames, handles, and hashtags
- • Asset names (SVG, PNG, GIF)
- • Firmware, releases, APIs, and technical docs
Examples
LightningPiggy firmware v2.1 class LightningPiggy #LightningPiggy lightningpiggy-logo.svg Lightning Piggy
With a space — for natural language readability.
Use for:
- • Website and marketing copy
- • Blog posts and articles
- • Human-friendly documentation
- • Storytelling and descriptive text
Examples
"Lightning Piggy helps kids save sats."
"Meet Lightning Piggy, the Bitcoin piggy bank."
Capitalisation
Always capitalise both words:
lightningpiggy Lightningpiggy LIGHTNING PIGGY Consistency
- • Do not mix both forms within the same sentence.
- • First mention may use: LightningPiggy (Lightning Piggy)
- • After first mention, choose one form and stay consistent.
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Avoid common typos such as
LightingPiggy - • When unsure, default to LightningPiggy.
Logo
Pink & Yellow
For light backgrounds
White & Yellow
For dark backgrounds
Colours
Accent Pink
Outline & primary accent
#EC008C Light Pink
Fill & background
#F0BCD7 Lightning Yellow
Lightning bolt accent
#FFDB00 LightningPiggy provides a strong, unique, brandable identity for open-source software and community use. Lightning Piggy improves readability for non-technical audiences. This follows conventions used by other open-source mascot projects.
Proposed changes to this guide should be discussed via a pull request.