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Brand Guidelines

This guide defines the visual language, design style, and principles that shape a clear and consistent brand experience, no matter the team or area of expertise.

At its core, Codex is about financial speed and scalability, just like our mission to make currency conversion cheap, instant, and global. This guide lays out the essential design standards that bring our brand to life, from our color system and typography to accessibility benchmarks and documentation.

Whether you’re designing for digital platforms or printed materials, these guidelines ensure every touchpoint reflects the trust and efficiency at the heart of Codex.

Brand Strategy

Stablecoins have become a global phenomenon, but the core bottleneck in cross-border money movement hasn’t shifted: wholesale FX is still slow, expensive, and stuck inside legacy banking infrastructure. PSPs, neobanks, fintechs, and remittance companies still settle on T+2, pre-fund nostro accounts in every destination currency, and route flows through layered correspondent banks before reaching the beneficiary. The outcome is the same everywhere: wide spreads, slow settlement, locked-up capital, and corridors that are uneconomical to serve.

Codex is a stablecoin-native wholesale FX platform built for those businesses. We replace the correspondent banking stack with a single rail: settlement in under thirty minutes, zero pre-funding, around-the-clock coverage, and direct access to major and emerging market currencies. Customers get institutional pricing and execution without nostro accounts, banking cut-offs, or stacked intermediaries.

When wholesale FX becomes fast, cheap, and continuous, the economics of cross-border change. PSPs widen the corridors they can profitably serve. Neobanks pass tighter spreads to end customers. Remittance companies free up capital trapped in pre-funding. New product layers become possible on top, real-time payouts, programmable treasury, transparent FX margins, and more, all built on infrastructure designed for how money actually moves today.

Personality

Codex is the first stablecoin FX specialist built to make currency conversions to and from fiat cheap, instant, and always-on.

Anything to Anything, the Codex tagline set in Tiempos and Die Grotesk on the brand gradient

Value Propositions

  1. 01

    Settle cross-border payments in under 30 minutes using stablecoin rails.

  2. 02

    Convert anything to anything: fiat to stablecoin, stablecoin to fiat, stablecoin to stablecoin, at wholesale rates.

  3. 03

    Deep liquidity across emerging and frontier market corridors.

Sample Copy

  • Wholesale rates

    Institutional-grade pricing. Access deep liquidity and tight spreads, with clear fees and real-time quotes.

  • Settle in minutes

    Most transactions settle in under 30 minutes, not 2–5 business days. 24/7/365, including weekends and holidays.

  • No hidden fees

    See your rate upfront. Clear execution with zero hidden costs. Know exactly what you’re paying before every trade.

  • Emerging market currencies

    We go where legacy providers won’t. Deep liquidity in hard-to-reach corridors and emerging market currencies, not just G7.

Color

Codex’s color palette is designed to evoke trust, reliability, and financial clarity, ensuring that every touchpoint reflects our commitment to accuracy and efficiency.

Together, these colors create a strong, dependable, and forward-thinking brand identity, ensuring that Codex is instantly recognized as the go-to solution for financial transactions.

Neutrals

  • Warm BlackHex: #1C1B19
  • Warm Grey 500Hex: #A49C8D
  • Warm Grey 200Hex: #D1CDC6
  • WhiteHex: #FFFFFF

Color Accents

  • PompadourHex: #850053
  • CeriseHex: #D10082
  • RoseHex: #FF4B6F
  • PeachHex: #FF6A48
  • ApricotHex: #FFC6AC
  • SandHex: #FFE7CA
  • Harlequin DarkHex: #92D450
  • HarlequinHex: #AFFF60

Gradient Palette

  • Gradient 1
  • Gradient 2
  • Gradient 3
  • Gradient 4

Typography

Codex’s typography balances clarity and professionalism with a modern yet timeless type pairing, reinforcing our commitment to accuracy, efficiency, and financial scalability.

Tiempos Headline specimen: Aa in Cerise on a pale pink grid

Primary Serif (Tiempos Headline) is a clean, modern serif typeface that ensures legibility and precision across all digital and print materials. Its structure reflects clarity, efficiency, and trust, making it the ideal choice for impactful and bold positions.

Die Grotesk specimen: Aa in Pompadour on a lilac grid

Secondary Sans-Serif (Die Grotesk) is a refined, geometric sans-serif font that adds a touch of tradition and credibility. Used for emphasis in UI, dashboards, reports, and financial documents, it reinforces Codex’s expertise and reliability.

Tiempos and Die Grotesk paired: a serif headline on Cerise beside a sans-serif headline on Pompadour

This serif and sans-serif combination creates a dynamic contrast: modern yet trustworthy, analytical yet approachable, ensuring Codex’s brand communication is always clear, professional, and dependable.

  • Primary TypefaceTiempos
  • Secondary TypefaceDie Grotesk
  • Tertiary TypefaceDM Mono

Digital Type Use

Our typography is tuned for calm clarity. We lean on a disciplined type system so dense financial information stays easy to read on any screen, in any market, for anyone moving anything to anything. Use it consistently. The restraint is the point.

  1. Anything to Anything

    Tiempos Headline / Tiempos Text / Die Grotesk > 108px100% Leading0% Tracking
  2. Codex Launches Stablecoin-Powered Wholesale FX Platform for Emerging and Frontier Markets

    Tiempos Headline > 32-38px110% Leading-1% Tracking
  3. Wholesale FX, 24/7 availability, and stablecoin-powered settlement. Move seamlessly between fiat and stablecoins across emerging and frontier markets.

    Tiempos Text > 16–20px120% Leading-1% Tracking
  4. Every day, emerging-market businesses lose millions to inefficient cross-border payments. Companies manage FX exposure, wait days to settle, and bleed margin to spreads and bank fees.

    Codex FX exists to fundamentally change how businesses move money globally.

    Die Grotesk > 16–18px130% Leading0% Tracking
  5. © 2024–26 Codex Technologies PBC, Inc. All rights reserved.

    Codex Financial, Inc. (NMLS 2696269) is a subsidiary of Codex Technologies PBC, Inc.

    DM Mono > 10-12px130% Leading0% Tracking

Art Direction

Our art direction is built around refined 3D liquid-glass forms that are translucent, fluid, and quietly luminous. We use them to visualize what Codex actually does: money flowing across borders, currencies merging and separating, value moving with the softness of liquid and the precision of glass. The aesthetic should always feel calm and considered, never decorative. Each frame is a snapshot of motion, clarity, and exchange.

  • Anything to Anything hero: the tagline beside an iridescent liquid-glass sculpture of two banknote busts merging
    Hero Tagline & 3D Art Direction
  • 3D Motion
  • Spot illustration: Any asset, any direction, beside a liquid-glass coin, exchange arrows and a dollar bill on a lime gradient
    Spot Illustration
  • Product UI Dashboard