On colours

Some readers may have noticed that Scottish Enterprise launched a new brand identity recently.

A screenshot of the colour contrast analysis tool. It is a table of circular cells with different foreground and background colours

Our logo was updated, and our typefaces and colour palettes changed.

I’m not a marketer, so that’s not my domain and I have nothing to say about that.

But I am a designer. And, when you’re designing communications material, whether it’s a website, an app, a brochure, a poster, a letter … these things matter. They are constraints you have to design within.

And yet, you have to produce an experience that’s accessible.

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