Making a brand that doesn't have a colour

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  • monospaced1

    I think there are a lot of good reasons to do this. Freeing the brand from color lets it live in more places. It puts a lot of emphasis on the message, or mark, or other visuals, or just the product or offering. It allows it to be better co-branded, to adapt, to assimilate into a wide variety of environments much easier.

    On the other hand, there's the risk of diluting the brand if the brand, without color, isn't memorable. It puts a lot of emphasis on so many other things, so those better be good: copy, pattern, mark, message, tone, personality and image.

    • All good pointsdisplay
    • yepfadein11
    • you're talking about an identity system, which is not branding. yes, single color logos work better with co-branded shit.doesnotexist
    • Depends on the brand. Color is highly psychological so I disagree slightly but understand.Hayoth
    • yes, I am talking about an identity system, which is what display is talking about too.monospaced
    • and while you're right, a brand can't even have color in the first place, I'm also talking about tone, message and product, which ARE brandmonospaced

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