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Choosing brand colors your team can actually use

A practical way to build a palette that works on screens, in slides and on a shipping box.

Choosing brand colors your team can actually use

A beautiful palette that only works on a moodboard is not a palette. It is a screenshot.

Test on real surfaces

We test every color on a website, a slide, a social post and a printed box before we sign it off. Colors that fail on one surface get adjusted or dropped.

Give every color a job

Each color gets a clear role: background, text, action or accent. When the team knows what each color is for, they stop inventing new ones.

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