Brand Guidelines
Building critical infrastructure for the third sector.
Community Stack represents a vision of critical national infrastructure for the third sector. Our brand reflects our commitment to ensuring that being small or under-resourced does not mean being invisible.
18+
Practitioner Communities
25,000+
Members Worldwide
8+
Global Conferences
2025
Founded
Who We Are
Founded and run by community operators.
Community Stack is a social infrastructure company headquartered in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. We build, operate, and invest in community-led organisations, platforms, and events across the UK and globally.
Ethan Sumner
Co-Founder and CEO
Community organiser and technologist from Barnsley. Has worked at Microsoft, Mastercard, and global consultancies. Leads strategy, partnerships, and operational model.
Mercedes Moxon Greenfield
Co-Founder and CTO
UK Robotics Champion, accessibility advocate, and engineer from Sheffield. Leads platform delivery with an accessibility-first, inclusion-led approach.
Our Mission
“To build critical national infrastructure for the third sector, ensuring that being small or under-resourced does not mean being invisible.”
Our Focus
The six pillars.
Community Stack operates across six interconnected pillars, each serving a distinct purpose in building social infrastructure.
Ecosystem
We own and operate practitioner communities as long-term infrastructure, not as events.
Engine
The operating system for technical communities. Events, sponsorship, memberships, and analytics in one platform.
Switchboard
The discovery layer for the third sector. Free, accessible websites and a directory that people can actually search.
Intelligence
Insight drawn from the network, used to support communities, never to direct or extract from them.
Enterprise
Internal community infrastructure for organisations. Engineering guilds, communities of practice, and advocate programmes at scale.
Labs
Applied research and national campaigns on digital inclusion, accessibility, and the future of community infrastructure.
Logos and Assets
Core brand logos.
Download our official logos in PNG format. Each brand has a full wordmark and an icon mark for different use cases.
Community Stack
Primary brand logo
Community Engine
Events and conferences platform
Community Switchboard
Third sector discovery platform
Color Palette
Brand colors.
Our color system is built on a deep navy foundation with vibrant accent colors for each brand. Click any swatch to copy the hex value.
Primary Palette
Brand Colors
Community Colors
Typography
Type system.
We use two typefaces throughout our brand: Montserrat for headings and Poppins for body text.
Headings
Montserrat
Used for all headlines, titles, and display text. Bold weight (700) for maximum impact and clarity.
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Body Text
Poppins
Used for body copy, labels, buttons, and UI elements. Regular (400), Medium (500), and Semibold (600) weights.
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Usage Guidelines
Brand usage.
Follow these guidelines to ensure consistent representation of the Community Stack brand across all touchpoints.
Do
- Use official logo files from this page
- Maintain clear space around logos
- Use brand colors as specified
- Keep logos on dark navy backgrounds
- Credit Community Stack in press coverage
- Link to communitystack.io when referencing us
Do Not
- Alter, rotate, or distort logos
- Use unapproved color combinations
- Place logos on busy backgrounds
- Recreate logos using different fonts
- Use logos smaller than minimum size
- Add effects like shadows or gradients
Community Moments
Our community in action.
Photos from our events, conferences, and community gatherings. Available for press use with attribution.
Jeff Barr presenting Engineering in the AI Era at AWS Gen AI Loft London
Matthew Skelton presenting Platform Engineering at Yorkshire DevOps meetup
Tech meetup presentation at Incident.io office
Speaker presenting at BrainStation event
Community event in modern venue
Speaker presenting at community event
Community Stack founders at launch event
Yorkshire tech community gathering
Press Contact
Need more information?
For press enquiries, interviews, high-resolution assets, or additional brand materials, please get in touch with our communications team.