Radicle

Radicle is an open-source, peer-to-peer code collaboration network. Code lives on a distributed network rather than on a single company’s servers, with no centralized control or single point of failure. The product had grown from a niche tool for cypherpunks into something with broader reach. The team needed positioning and a presence that matched.

We worked across strategy, brand, website, and product. Brand and product designed together by the same team.

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Grid of minimalist line icons on a light gray background, including symbols like home, info, lock, lightbulb, folder, Wi‑Fi, and smiley face.
Desktop app interface showing a sidebar of repositories and a main list of code patches with titles, authors, and colored status icons.
Dark-themed Radicle desktop app showing an Inbox view with a sidebar of pinned repositories and a list of grouped code review notifications.
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Dark-themed contribution heatmap showing 1958 contributions in the last year, with green dots of varying brightness arranged in a calendar grid for June to August.
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The identity centers on the Radicle mark, a visual starting point referencing binary systems and the human-machine relationship. The same logic carries through the geometric typography, the structured layouts, and a color palette drawn from digital nature.

The product side translated decentralized infrastructure into an interface developers could move through without re-learning everything they know. The patterns familiar from GitHub still work; the underlying network is just different.

Branding, Stategy, Product Design