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"A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique"

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Branding advice tends to get dressed up as mysticism; Primo Angeli yanks it back to craft. The line reads like a checklist, but its real move is rhetorical: it makes “great” feel measurable. By stacking five adjectives, Angeli turns trademark quality into something you can audit, not just admire. That’s the intent: demystify the “it factor” and give creators a working standard.

“Appropriate” is the quiet gatekeeper. It signals that a mark isn’t art for art’s sake; it must fit the product, the audience, and the cultural climate. “Dynamic” then nudges against the old fantasy of a logo carved in stone. In a world of app icons, responsive design, and brand identities that have to move across screens, merch, and memes, a trademark has to flex without dissolving.

The cluster “distinctive, memorable and unique” is where the subtext sharpens into a warning. You’re not competing in a vacuum; you’re battling noise, near-copies, and the human brain’s laziness. Distinctiveness earns attention, memorability earns return visits, uniqueness earns legal and cultural defensibility. Angeli is smuggling in a hard truth: if you can’t be recalled, you can’t be chosen; if you can’t be protected, you can’t be owned.

As a writer speaking into business culture, he’s also arguing for restraint. Great trademarks aren’t loud; they’re precise. The sentence itself mirrors that ideal: compact, direct, built to stick.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Angeli, Primo. (2026, January 16). A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-great-trademark-is-appropriate-dynamic-125608/

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Angeli, Primo. "A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-great-trademark-is-appropriate-dynamic-125608/.

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"A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-great-trademark-is-appropriate-dynamic-125608/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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