Visual system · The distinctive assets · Element

The recognition

How strongly the asset is attributed to the brand.

The part

What it is

Measured by showing the element without the name and asking who it belongs to. Fame and uniqueness are separate readings: many people may recognise it, and some of them may name a competitor.

Assets that are widely recognised and misattributed are the most expensive kind, and they are usually category conventions.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.