Licensing & brand use

Names. Cosmik Labs (long form), CosmikLabs (full name), cosmiklabs (GitHub handle) and Cosmik (short form) all name COSMIK LABS, LLC and its GitHub organisation. COSMIK LABS, LLC holds the copyright in this repository's own material and holds the Cosmik marks, including the Tectra marks. The vendored foundation and the fonts keep their own terms (sections 3 and 4).

These terms are those of cosmiklabs/brand, applied to this repository's contents. Until v0.8.0 the Tectra kit lived in that repository under the same terms. This repository mixes four kinds of material with different rights. Each part is covered separately; a licence for one part says nothing about the others.

1. Tooling, token data and written guidance: MIT#

Covers:

scripts: everything in scripts/;
the token source and generated token files in tokens/;
the specimen code in specimen.html and specimen.css (HTML, CSS);
repository configuration, tests and asset-manifest.json;
all written guidance, including the kit guide (README.md), validation.md, AGENTS.md and CHANGELOG.md.

The MIT grant covers the written instructions, not the artwork or marks embedded in or referenced by them. Those remain subject to section 2, and fonts remain subject to section 4.

Example

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 COSMIK LABS, LLC

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

A permissive licence on the token values lets any project, including a fork, reuse the palette, spacing and type scale. Colours and spacing are not the identity; the marks below are.

2. Brand marks: trademark-style policy#

Covers the Cosmik marks as they appear in this repository: the Tectra Latch symbol and lockups (every file in assets/, and any render of them) and the brand artwork embedded in guide and specimen files. The written instructions in these files are covered by section 1.

These marks and artwork are not licensed under section 1 or under the licence of any project that ships them. COSMIK LABS, LLC keeps all rights in them, subject to the permissions below.

Who may ship the marks.

Official Cosmik projects: repositories under the cosmiklabs GitHub organisation and the builds, installers, websites and documentation published from them by Cosmik Labs. They may ship the marks unmodified, as supplied in this repository, following the brand guide.
Contributors to an official Cosmik project may use the marks while working on that project, including in local and test builds.
Anyone may refer to Cosmik and its projects by name and may show the unmodified emblem to identify them (for example in an article, a review, a catalogue entry or a link), provided it does not suggest endorsement, partnership or official status that does not exist.

Unmodified means: the supplied files, or exact renders of them at another size, in the supplied colour variants. No redrawing, recolouring outside the supplied variants, stretching, rotating, cropping into the flare, added effects, or recreating the wordmark in another typeface (see the brand guide).

Forks and derivative distributions. A fork of a Cosmik project, or any build not published by Cosmik Labs, must remove the Cosmik marks and must not use "Cosmik" as its own name or imply it is an official Cosmik release. It may state factually that it is "based on" or "a fork of" the Cosmik project. This applies whatever the code licence of the forked project: a copyleft or permissive code licence grants rights in the code, not in the marks. For GPL-3.0 projects, this is the declination of trademark rights that GPL-3.0 section 7(e) permits.

Everything else (merchandise, third-party products, modified marks, co-branding) needs written permission from COSMIK LABS, LLC.

3. The vendored foundation: its own licence#

Everything in vendor/brand/ is an unchanged copy of a tagged cosmiklabs/brand release, pinned by vendor/brand/brand.lock.json. It stays under that release's own terms in vendor/brand/LICENSE.md, which travels with it: MIT for its tooling, token data and written guidance, the trademark-style policy for the Cosmik marks, and the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for its fonts. Nothing in this file changes those terms.

4. Fonts: SIL Open Font License 1.1#

This repository bundles no typeface of its own. Tectra uses Inter and IBM Plex Mono from the vendored foundation, which are not Cosmik Labs' work and stay under their own licence, the SIL Open Font License 1.1:

Inter: vendor/brand/fonts/licenses/Inter-OFL.txt
IBM Plex Mono: vendor/brand/fonts/licenses/IBM-Plex-OFL.txt (Reserved Font Name "Plex")

Preserve these notices whenever font files are redistributed. The lockups in assets/ contain outlined Inter SemiBold letterforms; Inter's notice continues to apply. Using the fonts here implies no endorsement by their authors.

Notes#

Official projects are the repositories in the cosmiklabs GitHub organisation; a project elsewhere becomes official by moving there.
The marks are claimed, not registered. Nothing here claims a registration.