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Checkmate Live brand assets

Official Checkmate Live logos, colours, typefaces and media assets for press and partners. Everything here is free to use as supplied — please don't redraw, recolour or rebuild it.

ZIP · updated September 2026 · SVG and PNG · 4.4 MB

Product screenshots

Full-resolution stills of the platform, free to use in coverage. Games are played face to face over live video embedded in the platform — the screens show it.

Checkmate Live player view — live video board
Player viewLive video boardDownload PNG
Checkmate Live tournament view — schedule and standings
Tournament viewSchedule and standingsDownload PNG

Clear space and minimum size

Leave clear space on all four sides equal to the height of the bolt. Nothing sits inside it — no type, no rules, no image edges, no other logo. Don't reproduce the logotype below 96 px wide on screen or 24 mm in print; below that, use the icon.

Checkmate Live logotype with its clear space marked by a dashed outline
Clear spacex = the height of the bolt in the mark. Nothing enters the dashed zone. The supplied files carry this space in the artwork.
Checkmate Live icon mark at its 24 pixel minimum width
Minimum sizeLogotype 96 px on screen, 24 mm in print. Icon 24 px / 8 mm. Shown here at actual size.

Backgrounds

Three grounds: black, off-white, and the brand purple. Use the colourway supplied for the ground rather than recolouring the mark. On photography, use a solid panel or a scrim dark enough to keep the mark clearly legible. The “Powered by” lockup shown here is for partner and production credits only — it is not a logo substitute and never replaces the primary logotype.

Checkmate Live official badge, on dark
On blackPrimary mark · #07080BDownload SVG
Checkmate Live official badge, on light
On off-whiteBlack mark · #E3E5EADownload SVG
Checkmate Live official badge, on purple
On brand purpleWhite mark · #923DFFDownload SVG
Powered by Checkmate Live lockup, white on dark
Powered by lockupPNG · credits and partner use onlyDownload PNG

What not to do

Please do
  • Use the supplied vector files, unaltered.
  • Scale proportionally, at any size above the minimum.
  • Give the mark its clear space.
  • Default to the flat purple — it is the primary mark.
Please don't
  • Don't recolour the mark or apply effects, shadows or outlines to it.
  • Don't stretch, rotate, crop or redraw it.
  • Don't set the name in all caps in running text to match the wordmark.
  • Don't place it on a busy image or a low-contrast ground.
  • Don't lock it up with another mark as though it were one brand.
  • Don't rebuild the logotype in a typeface — it is custom artwork, supplied as vector outlines.

Asian Chess Federation mark

Checkmate Live is the exclusive online partner for the Asian Chess Federation and operates the official ACF Echess competition. Where coverage or collateral needs the federation mark alongside ours, use the crest supplied here. It is a third-party mark: use it as supplied, never modify it, and never lock it up as though it were a Checkmate Live sub-brand.

Co-branded lockups pairing the two marks need approval first — ask us at hello@checkmate.live before publishing one.

Asian Chess Federation crest
Asian Chess Federation crestSVG · PNG · supplied by the ACFDownload SVGDownload PNG

Colour

Black is the default ground. The purple carries the brand. These values are for screen and broadcast — there is no print or merchandise system, so no Pantone or CMYK equivalents are published.

Brand purple#923DFF · the mark
Action purple#6D34B5 · buttons and interactive
Ground#07080B · default background
Light#E3E5EA · text on dark

Typefaces

Two typefaces, both open source and free to use. Sora Semibold sets headlines, navigation and labels. Inter sets body copy, tables and data. If neither is available to you, substitute a clean neutral sans — never a display or script face. The wordmark itself is custom artwork supplied as vector outlines; there is no need to license the typeface it was drawn from, and no reason to re-set it.

Aa
Speed chess, played face to face over live video.
Regular400
Semibold600 · headline weight
Sora · Semibold 600Headlines, navigation, labels · fonts.google.com/specimen/Sora
Aa
Speed chess, played face to face over live video.
Light300
Regular400 · body
Medium500
Semibold600
Inter · 400 / 500 / 600Body copy, tables, data · fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter

Boilerplate

Approved copy, ready to paste. Please use it as written — these blocks are our signed-off wording.

One line

Checkmate Live is a real-time video broadcast and tournament platform for speed chess and competitive play.

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Short paragraph — base for media

Checkmate Live develops games, runs tournaments and produces and promotes live broadcasts for skill-based mind games — speed chess and esports first, social through pro. It is the exclusive online partner for the Asian Chess Federation, operates the official ACF Echess competition, and plays its games face to face over live video. The platform was built by VADR Media, whose anti-cheat research is developed with the University of Technology Sydney's Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute.

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Full paragraph — media use

Checkmate Live is a real-time video broadcast and tournament platform for speed chess and competitive play. It develops games, runs tournaments and produces and promotes live broadcasts for skill-based mind games — speed chess and esports first, social through pro — where quick minds, steady hands and the best moves win. Competitive play is its mission. Fair play is its foundation.

Checkmate Live is the home of Echess and the exclusive online partner of the Asian Chess Federation, holding the ACF's digital rights and operating the official ACF Echess competition across 52 national member federations spanning Asia, the Middle East and Oceania. It is also a partner of the Arab Esports Federation and its 20 member nations. Echess operations are coordinated from Al Ain by the ACF and from Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, with live operations run from Australia.

Checkmate Live takes a vertically integrated approach to media, gaming and publishing. It was built by VADR Media, which remains its executive production, broadcast sportstech and integrity monitoring infrastructure partner. Anti-cheat detection is developed in research collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney's Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, recognised with the 2024 ANZ Sports Technology Award.

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Naming

  • The name is Checkmate Live — two words, both capitalised.
  • Not CheckMate, Checkmate.live or Checkmate-Live. CML can be used as shorthand for Checkmate Live — spell the name out in full on first mention, then CML is fine, as it is in interface labels and captions.
  • In the logo the wordmark is set CHECKMATE. That styling belongs to the mark — don't set the name in all caps in running text to match it.

Usage terms

“Brand Assets” means anything we use to identify Checkmate Live and checkmate.live — names, logos, icons, screenshots and design elements. By using them you agree to these guidelines, our Terms of Service and our Community Guidelines. You don't need our permission to use them for editorial coverage, partner materials or anything else consistent with these terms. Permission is non-exclusive and non-transferable.

  • Use the assets as supplied. Don't modify, redraw, recolour or add effects to them.
  • Don't use them in a way that implies endorsement, affiliation or partnership that doesn't exist.
  • Don't use them in anything misleading, unlawful or infringing.
  • If you are not a partner, don't say you have collaborated with, worked with or partnered with Checkmate Live.
  • Partners should follow their agreement with us where it differs from these terms.
  • We may ask you to stop using the assets, and may withdraw permission at any time.

Seen someone using our assets badly? Tell us — we'd rather fix it than chase it.

Questions

For approvals, co-branded lockups, interviews, b-roll or anything not covered here, get in touch — we answer press enquiries quickly.

hello@checkmate.live