Brand basics
Built from your logo and the colour palette you sent, plus the decisions the careers site needed along the way.
This is a draft to react to, not a finished system. Prime has no brand guidelines today. Everything below is a proposal, and anything in it can change.
The logo
There are two versions: a full-colour one for light backgrounds and a reversed one for dark backgrounds.
On light
On darkLeave clear space around it equal to the height of the cross in the mark, and never set it smaller than 120px wide, because the word Group stops being readable below that.
Colour
Only four are dark enough for body copy. The rest fill shapes, mark borders and carry large headings, and they turn unreadable the moment you set small text in them. That one fact decides most layout questions on its own.
| Use | Colour | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Body text | #1E2430 near-black, or #646c7c for secondary | The palette has no true text colour, so the site adds one |
| Buttons and links | #4c3484 | The only logo colour dark enough to read at small sizes |
| The three logo colours together | The 4px rule under the menu, and the logo | Used as a wash across a page they overwhelm the photos |
Type
Plus Jakarta Sans for headings and buttons, Public Sans for body copy. Both are on Google Fonts, so they cost nothing and work everywhere, including in Word and Google Docs.
Careers at Prime
Prime is 24 pharmacies across Victoria and Queensland, growing while independents pull back, with a documented path that has taken people from intern to partner.
Used for captions, card notes and form hints.
Components
Cards sit on white with a single hairline border and a soft shadow. Corners are rounded 10px. Nothing is outlined in heavy black, and nothing carries a hard drop shadow, because that reads playful rather than clinical.
Still missing
Photography direction, icon style, document and email templates, signage, and how the four store banners sit alongside the group brand.
Worth doing properly at some point, and worth doing before the next person designs something for Prime.