The lockup on the dark track

The light-background lockup, rebuilt for the glass canvas: the same five blades and the same geometry, never redrawn, with a gradient across each blade, a specular bevel and a cast shadow so the mark sits proud of the surface. Three variants differ only in which colours the blades and the wordmark carry. Shown at lockup size, at masthead size, as the mark alone down to favicon scale, and inside a frosted tile in case the masthead keeps a plate.

A · Brand blades, raised

The five blades keep their true hexes. Every blade carries a top-left to bottom-right gradient plus a specular bevel and a cast shadow, so the mark reads as raised rather than lit from within. Wordmark in ink, rule and CAPITAL in the lightened siblings, since both are thin marks.
lockup, 268px
MERCIA
CAPITAL
masthead scale, 150px
MERCIA
CAPITAL
mark alone, 128 / 64 / 32px
on a glass tile, the masthead slot
MERCIA
CAPITAL

B · Navy and teal blades lifted

Identical treatment, except the two blades that measure below 1.2:1 on this canvas take their chart-tier siblings: navy to #6e8dc7, teal to #1e9baa, petrol to #5497aa. Maroon and gold are untouched. All five blades separate from each other and from the canvas.
lockup, 268px
MERCIA
CAPITAL
masthead scale, 150px
MERCIA
CAPITAL
mark alone, 128 / 64 / 32px
on a glass tile, the masthead slot
MERCIA
CAPITAL

C · Lifted blades, gold wordmark

Variant B with the wordmark in gold rather than ink, since gold is the one brand colour that carries at text weight on this canvas at 6.58:1.
lockup, 268px
MERCIA
CAPITAL
masthead scale, 150px
MERCIA
CAPITAL
mark alone, 128 / 64 / 32px
on a glass tile, the masthead slot
MERCIA
CAPITAL
Mercia Capital · glass lockup study, not client facing. Paths are read from the production masthead at build time, so the mark cannot drift from the original.