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Press kit

Logos, screenshots and brand details for anyone writing about Northlight. You can use them to write about the project, review it or link to it.

Download the press kit (zip)

About Northlight

Section titled “About Northlight”

A short description:

Northlight is a free and open source digital audio workstation for Windows, for recording, arranging and mixing music. It’s released under the GNU AGPLv3 and made in the open on GitHub.

A longer one:

Northlight is a free and open source digital audio workstation for Windows. It records many tracks at once at low latency over ASIO, hosts VST3 and CLAP plugins, and comes with its own instruments: Pulsar, a drum synth; Aurora, for basses and keys; Nebula, for pads; Starbit, a chiptune synth; and a sampler. Every track has a channel strip with a gate, EQ, compressor, de-esser, saturation and limiter, and sung parts can be pitch-corrected note by note. Anyone can use Northlight for anything, and its source code is public under the GNU AGPLv3. It hasn’t had its first release yet.

Section titled “Logo”

The logo is Moonrise: a half moon risen over the horizon, its light broken on the water below. The lockup sets the name beside it. Each comes in a version for dark backgrounds and one for light backgrounds, as SVG and as PNG on a transparent background.

Section titled “Using the logo”
  • Leave clear space around the mark at least as wide as the moon on every side.
  • Don’t use the mark smaller than 16 px, or the lockup narrower than 96 px.
  • The mark always comes before the name, and the name sits on the horizon line.
  • Don’t recolour the moon blue, outline it, make it a full circle, add a gradient or a glow, or rotate the mark. Don’t set the name in another typeface.
  • On a photograph, use the one-colour version in the moon’s cream (#F1EEDF), so the horizon doesn’t disappear into the sky.

Colours

Section titled “Colours”

Northlight looks like a Hebridean island in early evening: dark peat and turf greens, an overcast blue sky and a cream moon. The blue marks anything active, and red is kept for recording.

Field at night#0F1311
Peat#141815
Turf#1C211D
Moon#E8E5DA
Lichen#A9AFA6
Overcast#93ABC2
Rowan#D9705E
Straw gold#D6B36A
Sea grass#8FB38A
Heather#C3A2BE

Type

Section titled “Type”
Newsreader

The name in the logo, and headings on this site. From Google Fonts, under the SIL Open Font License.

Inter

Every control and label in the app, and body text on this site.

JetBrains Mono

Time, tempo, decibels and every other value that changes in the app.

Screenshots

Section titled “Screenshots”

Full-size screenshots of Northlight. Most show its demo song, Northern Drift. Select one to open it at full size.

Northlight with the demo song open in the arrange view and the mixerThe arrange view and mixerA vocal take in the pitch editorVocal pitch editingThe channel strip with all six modules onThe channel stripThe mixerThe mixerPulsar, the drum synthPulsar, the drum synth

Photography

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The moonlit field on the home page is by Gytis Bukauskas on Unsplash. It isn’t ours to share, so it’s not in the press kit; you can download it from Unsplash under the Unsplash License.

Questions

Section titled “Questions”

For anything else, start a discussion on GitHub.