Colour in branding

Colour plays an important role in recognition rates. To illustrate, you know what worldwide brands these colour blocks represent, don’t you? (Answers in the links beneath each.)

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Of course each of the above brands has a huge marketing budget, helping ingrain the product or service into our subconscious whether we deal with the companies or not. But try imagining brands that are a little closer to home — ones that perhaps catch your attention when you’re pushing a trolley down a supermarket aisle.

This one’s for a breakfast cereal:

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Here’s a toothpaste:

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And a chocolate bar:

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You’ll undoubtedly see copycat products using similar palettes, hoping to steal some of the market share, but the message is that colour definitely influences a shopper’s choice.

Short story shorter, you need a good reason for changing a corporate colour.