Estd · MMXXVI Referent Atelier · By appointment
PLATE I The wordmark
Referent
A small firm’s quiet luxury.
— OBJECT 01 / WORDMARK · 248PX —
Referent
DM Serif Display · roman + italic · ink + wine
R
— APP ICON · 96PX —
Referent
— LOCKUP · 48PX —
R
— FAVICON · 36PX —
PLATE II The landing
A small practice · A taste decision

For lawyers who care about taste as much as standing.

Referent is the legal AI a small firm picks because Harvey looks like everyone else’s. We don’t shout. We don’t court enterprise. We sign on, work alongside you, and leave the room when we’re not needed. Day one useful. No annual minimums.

“The taste choice in legal AI.
— OBJECT 02 / EXHIBIT —

The quiet alternative.

Referent is what a four-person family-law shop above a coffee shop runs because it doesn’t feel like vendor software. Real legal AI that reads like a senior associate took the time to write it. Cited footnotes. Plain English. No platform-speak.

For
1–10 attorneys
Day-one
useful
Citations
every claim
Annual min.
none
PLATE III The palette

Bone, ink, wine.

Atelier is the colour of an empty gallery on a Sunday — bone walls, dark ink type, a single deep wine that commits without raising its voice. Counter to corporate navy by quietness, not by warmth.

— BACKGROUND —
Bone
oklch0.965 0.006 30
hex#F5F0EC
— FOREGROUND —
Ink
oklch0.18 0.012 25
hex#26201D
— PRIMARY —
Wine
oklch0.36 0.1 15
hex#5C2A2D
— SECONDARY —
Warmer bone
oklch0.93 0.012 25
hex#EAE0DA
Ink on bone
14.2:1
AAA
Bone on ink
14.2:1
AAA
Bone on wine
8.1:1
AAA
PLATE IV The product

The working room.

The wine recedes into accent positions inside the product — active row, avatar, empty-state matter title. The serif italic carries voice from the marketing into the workspace. The whole UI is restrained on purpose.

— PLATE IV / OPEN — Ortega · I-589 ⌘ K

What shall we open?

A draft, a citation check, a forty-page country-conditions packet. We’ll mark the parts worth pushing back on, footnote the rest, and keep our voice out of the way of yours.

DRAFT — I
A continuance motion citing the new I-589 backlog data.
RESEARCH — II
9th Circuit credibility-finding standards, last 24 months.
READ — III
38pp country-conditions packet · surface the four pages.
INTAKE — IV
A one-page client memo from Tuesday's call notes.
Tell Referent what to open… ⌘ ⏎