The emblem
Two nibs, and the hour between them.
The Kyoor emblem is two pen nibs set tip to tip, parted by a single full stop. Read one way, they are the pen that signs. Read the other way, they form an hourglass.
The nib
The pen that signs.
A chief of staff prepares; the executive signs. Every decision in Kyoor ends with the executive's own word, so the pen is at the centre of the mark.
The hourglass
Time given back.
An executive's hours are the scarcest thing in the institution. The hours Kyoor takes over the day's correspondence return to the executive as hours for judgment, and the hourglass stands for them.
The full stop
The end of the matter.
Between the nibs is a full stop: a decision made, a reply sent, an item closed. Kyoor exists to bring each matter to that point.
Black and gold
Gold on black.
Black is the ink, and gold is the nib that carries it. The emblem is drawn in those two and in no others, and never in one alone. A nib without ink writes nothing, and ink without a nib is only a stain.
The name
Kyoor.
Kyoor is said as "cure", and spelled as it is said. The word comes from the Latin cura, which meant care before it meant remedy: the charge of something entrusted to you. A parish priest once had the cure of souls. A chief of staff has the cure of the leader's day, and that is the name.