Colour Palette

Our colour palette plays a vital role in delivering a visibly consistent look to all of our communications. Green is our primary colour as it reflects the natural beauty of our green campus.

Specific Pantone® numbers are provided for colour matching and spot colour ink for print applications. Process colour (CMYK) values are provided for 4-colour print needs. RGB and Hex colour values have also been provided for digital applications.

By adhering to these guidelines, we maintain a cohesive and impactful colour palette that effectively represents the University's brand in various contexts. This page shows approved colour pairings that can be applied, tested to pass WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards.

Primary colours

Our primary colour palette has been carefully chosen to identify and differentiate us.

Green is our primary colour - Heritage Green (02 Green) and Energy Green (01 Green) - and serves as the cornerstone of our brand identity.

In practical terms, this means that Green should clearly be the dominant colour across all brand communications. This allows us to establish a strong and recognisable visual presence.

Secondary colours

Our secondary colour palette brings our colourful world at the University to life.

These colours have been carefully selected to make sure they work with our Primary Greens. They’re displayed in a dark (left) to light (right) tonality scale and should be used as individual colour sets and not be mixed.

Don't mix colours! We exercise a limited palette to keep things controlled and allow our primary greens to cut through.

Use tones from the same colour set, to create a tone-on-tone effect, keeping the look of your work vibrant but clean and professional.

In the key here, you can see which colours to make your type for every colour combination in the palette - for both headlines and titles and body copy (Large/Normal text).

Neutral colours

A suite of carefully curated neutrals support our library of secondary colours.

You can use these colours as backgrounds or accents throughout collateral to offer warmth where necessary. These are great to offer a premium appeal to collateral, but remember our Primary Greens should be present in all that we do.

Don't create any documents using only the neutral palette.

Tertiary colours

Our tertiary colours should be used for body text and some messaging.

Grey is an alternative option to black for body copy, especially where the volume of text is large, and softening the copy colour will aid readability.

Use the text colour options provided only.

Don't create any documents using only black and white.