Chameleon Trademark Guidelines

Effective 2026-10-20

These guidelines say how you may use the Chameleon name and logo. They are the guidelines referred to in clause 24.9(b) of the Chameleon Software License Agreement, and they apply to everyone — licensees, writers, conference speakers and people who have never held a license.

They govern the marks, not the software. What you may do with the software itself is the license agreement’s business, not this document’s.

The marks

Chameleon is a trademark of Materia Technologies, Inc. So is the Chameleon logo, in each of its forms. Materia and the Materia logo are separate marks and are not covered by the permissions below.

What you may do without asking

Say that your application is built with Chameleon. Those words, or words to that effect, in your documentation, your marketing, your job adverts, a conference talk, or a page about how your product is made.
Name Chameleon accurately in articles, tutorials, comparisons, reviews and course material, including critical ones. Referring to a product by its name in order to talk about it needs no permission from anyone.
Use the logo alongside that statement, unmodified, at a size where it stays legible, with clear space around it of at least the height of the mark’s own wordmark.
Use the marks in a repository, a package name or a URL where they identify what your own separate work works with — awesome-chameleon, chameleon-rails-adapter. This permission is about naming only. It does not permit you to publish any part of Chameleon itself, or a theme builder, design tool or component tooling built on it, as a package or product in its own right — the license agreement's restrictions govern that, and breaching them is the one thing that costs you the license to keep running what you have already built.

What you may not do

Do not modify the logo: no recoloring, stretching, rotating, cropping, re-drawing, adding effects, or setting it in a different typeface.
Do not use the marks in your own product, company or service name, or in a logo of your own, or in a domain you own at the top level — chameleon-ui.com, ChameleonPro, a company called Chameleon Systems. That is true even when your product is built with Chameleon.
Do not imply endorsement, affiliation, partnership or certification you do not have. "Built with Chameleon" is a statement about how you built something. "Chameleon Certified", "Official Chameleon Partner" or "In partnership with Chameleon" are claims about a relationship, and they need our written agreement.
Do not use the marks on merchandise you sell, or as decoration divorced from the statement they support.
Do not register the marks, or anything confusingly similar to them, as a trademark, company name, or domain anywhere in the world.

Writing the name

Write Chameleon with a capital C, as one word. Not CHAMELEON, not chameleon in running prose, not Chameleon™ or Chameleon® on every occurrence.
Chameleon is an adjective, not a noun or a verb: "a Chameleon component", not "a Chameleon" or "we chameleoned the UI".
Do not pluralize or possessive the mark: "Chameleon components", not "Chameleons" or "Chameleon’s components" where you mean components built with it.
Where you use the mark prominently, attribute it once, in the smallest print that is still legible: Chameleon is a trademark of Materia Technologies, Inc.

Your own marks

Nothing here gives us rights in your marks. Clause 24.9(a) of the license agreement lets us name you as a customer and show your name and logo while doing so, in accordance with any trademark guidelines you give us in writing, and clause 24.9(c) lets you withdraw that permission on thirty days’ notice — after which we make no further use of your name and logo, though we are not required to recall or amend anything already published or distributed.

Asking

For anything these guidelines do not permit, or where you are unsure, write to chameleon@materia.tech. We would rather answer a question than find a use we would not have allowed if asked.

We may update these guidelines. The version published on the Legal Page is the current one.