“Powered by” — six layouts

What is actually wrong with the current one

Measured, not guessed. The wordmark file is a 1100×320 artboard but the artwork inside it is only 956×183 — 43% of the file’s height is empty air, and the padding is uneven left to right (52 units of margin on the left, 92 on the right).

• It renders small. At 1.15 em the wordmark’s letters come out 0.55 em tall against the byline’s 0.72 em caps — 24% short.
• It sits high. The dead space under the artwork lifts the wordmark about 0.1 em off the text baseline, so it floats rather than sitting on the line.
• The gaps are lopsided. The space before the mark is thinner than a word space; the space after it is nearly double that.
• The line breaks badly. The byline is one long sentence, so at most column widths it wraps and strands the separating bullet at the end of the first line with “powered by” orphaned below it. This is probably the part that reads as wrong before you can name why.

All six options below use a version of the file cropped to the artwork, which makes size and alignment exact instead of a guess. Option A is the current build, kept for comparison.