Commercial Type has worked with Document Journal since its first issue, sharing studio space and lending typefaces still in development. In 2020 editor Nick Vogelson sought a new nameplate; a Phaidon book on Leonardo da Vinci found in a used bookstore supplied the reference. The resulting logotype debuted on issue 17 in early 2021, and a monoweight sans derived from it was later adapted for Document Global, a creative agency run by the same team, in 2022.