The brand's mark

Upload your logo as it really appears — embossed on calf, woven into a label, foil on a swing tag — and the house sends the picture into every lookbook frame, then reads the frame back against it. A collection can carry its own finish and it wins whole.

Your pieces already carry your mark — printed on a chest, stitched into a label, debossed into a strap. A generated frame can quietly redraw it: a letter thickens, the spacing drifts, the logo becomes almost yours. Describing the mark in words does not stop that, because words are how you get a sticker instead of a deboss.

So the house takes photographs of it. One or two of them ride every lookbook frame as reference images, alongside your garments and your model — not to put the mark anywhere, but so the mark your piece already carries comes back exactly as it really is. The frame is graded against the same picture afterwards.

The brand's mark →

What a rendition is

A rendition is one photograph of your mark on a material, with the material named:

embossed on black calf
woven label, ivory on navy
polished brass hardware
gold foil on the swing tag
tonal embroidery, self on self

The material is not a caption. It goes into the frame's instructions verbatim, because a mark blind-debossed into calf and the same mark flat on white are two different pictures, and a model shown only the flat one will render the flat one.

That is also why we ask for it. If naming the material is hard, the photograph is probably not of a material — a screenshot of your website header is a logo, not a rendition, and it will teach the house the wrong thing.

Adding one

Two steps, because the picture goes into your library like any other image:

Upload the photograph — Settings → The mark → Add a rendition. It lands in your library tagged as a mark.
Name what it is on, and where it sits on the piece if that is fixed.

Nothing is charged. There is no read, no analysis, no generation — a rendition is a picture you own and a line of text.

Which ones ride

Two. The panel says which, in magenta, at rest — you never have to work it out from an order.

Past two, the reference budget is being spent telling the model the same thing twice while its attention thins across more images. If you have five finishes, put the two the piece actually carries at the top.

The mark is never added. A rendition is the ground truth for a logo your piece already carries — it is not an instruction to place one. A piece that shows the mark is held to the photograph; a plain piece stays plain, and a frame that grows a logo the piece never had is graded wrong, not right. The renditions only travel where they could matter — a lookbook frame with pieces in it; never a background removal, an upscale or a reframe, where there is nothing that could be carrying a logo.

A collection with its own finish

A capsule that foil-stamps where the main line embosses sets its own renditions under the collection → The drop → This drop's mark.

It replaces the house's set. It does not add to it.

That is deliberate and it is the important part of this page. Showing a model both finishes — "reproduce the mark in reference image 4" and "reproduce the mark in reference image 5" — is a contradiction, and models resolve contradictions by averaging. You would get a third finish that exists on neither piece.

An empty list on a collection is not an override. It falls through to the house, which is what you want almost always.

What the house checks afterwards

Every frame is graded, and one of the marks it can leave is the logo is wrong — a mangled, misspelled or invented mark.

That mark is only ever raised when a rendition rode the frame. Before this shipped it was raised in principle and never in practice: the house was asking whether the logo matched a reference it had never been given, and a question with nothing behind it does not produce a careful answer. It produces silence, and silence reads as a pass.

So: no rendition, no question. Register one and the question becomes real, and a paid redraw is told to reproduce the exact picture the grade was made against.

What it costs

Nothing. Not the upload, not the registration, not the ride.

A rendition travels with a develop you were already paying for, as one more reference image, and the grade it makes possible happens in the pass that already runs. There is no tool to buy here and no line on your bill.

For agents

read_mark over MCP returns your renditions and which set rides in a given collection. You do not pass anything to start_develop — renditions ride on their own. Read it when you want to know whether a frame will carry the mark, because the logo grade is only reported when one did.

Over HTTP the doors are GET, POST, PATCH and DELETE on /api/toolkit/brand/marks. The bytes go through the ordinary POST /api/toolkit/assets/upload with kind=mark first — there is no separate upload for renditions.