True Fit ✴ 2012 – 2023

Brand Evolution

I joined True Fit at the beginning of online shopping. I left when personalization had become an expectation.

ROLE
Art Director, Brand & Marketing

TENURE
10+ years

FUNDING
Series A -> C

TYPE
In-House Designer

85M+

Active shoppers on the platform

250+

Global retail partners

$152M

Raised across 11 rounds
during tenure

11

Years as in-house
creative brand lead

True Fit maps apparel and footwear data from retailers across the globe to recommend products that will actually fit you. In 2014, that was a genuinely new idea. Most of the people we needed to convince of it had never heard the words "machine learning" applied to a pair of jeans.

My job was to make the technology tangible. To retailers, that meant translating complex fit algorithms into pitch decks, product demos, and trade show experiences compelling enough to get some of the world's largest fashion brands to integrate our software. To shoppers, it meant building an identity warm and human enough that people would trust an app they'd never heard of with their measurements.

Over time, that work became a visual language for technology the industry was just starting to understand. The brand kept pace with the platform as it grew: from a startup pitch to 85 million active shoppers, 250+ retail partners, and collaborations with Google Cloud and Shopify.

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CHAPTER 01

The Brand System

A single "T": logo, widget, and visual anchor. Deployed across enterprise sales materials, consumer apps, retail partner checkouts, and trade show environments, usually without the company name attached.

The "T" was never just a logo. It was the widget: the interface element embedded inside every retail partner's checkout experience, often the only visible sign of True Fit. Shoppers encountered it across 250+ storefronts without ever seeing our name. That meant it had to carry recognition and brand equity on its own, at every size from favicon to trade show signage.

The broader system layered on top: guidelines, typography, photography direction, and a visual tone built to serve two very different audiences. For enterprise retail buyers, the brand was a credibility signal. For shoppers, it needed to feel warm enough to trust with their personal data.