Bright Horizons
www.brighthorizons.coma large early-education and childcare provider whose site leads with a warm deep-teal and sunshine-yellow palette over happy children's photography, the rounded Mulish sans throughout, a tabbed audience-routing hero, and a clear, trust-led grid of pathways for parents and employers.
Design tokens
- display
- Mulish (Muli)
- body
- Mulish (Muli)
- mono
- none
Do / Don't
Reference it for
- A trust-led childcare/education palette: warm deep teal plus sunshine yellow on white, friendly and reassuring without being childish.
- A tabbed, audience-routing hero panel that serves two audiences (parents, employers) from one block.
- Clear pathway cards under the hero so the next step is always obvious, the reference pattern for a multi-audience service.
- A tokenised spacing scale (8-112px) and 1280px container for a tidy, maintainable content site.
- The rounded, humanist Mulish sans as a single warm, legible family for an education brand.
Do not copy
- The Bright Horizons logo, the sun mark and the specific teal/yellow combination are the brand's identity; rebuild with the client's own palette.
- Mulish is open-source (borrowable), but the icon-heavy FontAwesome dependency is heavy; do not import 249 font faces.
- The dense, enterprise multi-audience navigation suits a national provider; a single local centre should simplify it.
Signature moves
tabbed audience-routing hero
one hero block serves two audiences (parents, employers) via a tabbed panel, so a multi-audience service routes from a single composition without separate heroes.
trust-led teal-plus-yellow education palette in one rounded humanist sans
a warm deep teal plus sunshine yellow on white reads friendly and reassuring without being childish, carried entirely by the rounded humanist Mulish sans across a 16-step scale (10-48px) with pill (100px) and soft radii.
pathway-card grid under the hero
clear pathway cards sit directly under the hero so the next step is always obvious, the reference pattern for a multi-audience service, on a tidy 8-112px spacing scale and 1280px container.
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