Guidepost Montessori

a warm, parent-facing Montessori network site built in WordPress and Elementor, lowercase Graphik headings each ending in a coloured full-stop, a soft cornflower-blue (#7AA9E1) and coral (#ED4944) palette on slate-blue body text, pill buttons and rounded-bottom image cards, gentle and trustworthy rather than clever.

Childcare Education Montessori Network strong

Design tokens

blue

coral

slate

slate-dark

black

white

grey-50

grey-100

display: Graphik
body: Graphik
mono: none

Do / Don't

Reference it for

A warm early-years palette: cornflower blue (#7AA9E1) and coral (#ED4944) accents on slate-blue (#677690) body text over near-white grounds.
The lowercase-heading-with-a-coloured-full-stop device as a friendly brand signature.
Soft shape language: pill buttons (50px), 35px rounded corners, rounded-bottom image cards that read as gentle and child-safe.
Parent-first information architecture: hero search ("find a school near you"), programs split clearly by age band, reassuring blog cards.
A clean, lightweight WordPress/Elementor build (21 requests) that stays fast and calm.

Do not copy

The exact Graphik lowercase-plus-full-stop wordmark treatment is Guidepost's signature; borrow the idea, choose your own punctuation accent.
The cornflower/coral pairing is theirs; map to the client's brand while keeping the gentle, low-saturation logic.
Elementor's default card and shadow patterns can read as generic; tighten them rather than lifting them wholesale.

Signature moves

warm early-years palette

cornflower blue (#7aa9e1) and coral (#ed4944) accents on slate-blue (#677690) body text over near-white reads gentle, trustworthy and child-safe.

lowercase heading with coloured full-stop

lowercase headings each ending in a coloured full-stop act as a friendly brand signature.

soft child-safe shape language

pill buttons (50px), 35px rounded corners and rounded-bottom image cards (0 0 35px 35px, or arch 0 0 45% 45%) read as gentle and safe.

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