Designing For A Wellness Practice That Lights People Up
When your practice is enlightening it promotes healing by engaging peoples’ core values and sparking motivation. It promotes confidence, self-awareness, compassion, and a little magic. Color, shapes, flow, negative space, and tone created with empathy, even love, for the viewer all contribute to communicating this essence of your practice.
COLOR | TYPOGRAPHY | SHAPES | LAYOUT
Color
- Opalescent gradients and glows to show radiance and transformation
- Contrast saturated colors with rich neutrals to ground ethereal lightness
- Metallic colors and golden yellow show optimism, illumination and insight
Colors That Convey Hope, Optimism, and Resilience
Metallics
- Metallic colors either as gradients or flat colors communicate wisdom, enlightenment, sacred knowledge, warmth, and illumination
- Convey reflection and balance
Purples
- Purples are mystical, wise, insightful, and connected to higher consciousness
Sky Blues & Teals
- Teal depicts a balance of emotional clarity and rational thinking
- Teals, turquoises, and sky blues are open and expansive
- Peace with depth
- Connected to water and air elements, linked to possibilities, inspiration, and imagination
Golden Yellows
- Yellow is optimistic and joyful
- Yellow with golden tones engages intellect, inspiration, and mental clarity
Opalescent Pastels
- The colors of an opal stone suggest iridescence
- These colors layered can appear shimmery and ethereal
- Timeless sans serifs can communicate wisdom. Examples include Cormorant Garamond, Playfair Display, and Caladea
- Light, geometric sans serifs can feel ethereal but firm, circular letters can display wholeness, balance, and timelessness. Examples are Quattrocento Sans, Kumbh Sans, and Figtree.
Wordmark Logos That Communicate Hope, Optimism, or Resilience
Headline and Body Copy Combinations That Communicate Hope, Optimism, and Resilience
Shapes
- Shapes that signal balance and unity like circles, ovals, sunbursts and spirals convey enlightenment and holistic healing
- The shape of a lotus flower is universally linked to enlightenment and inner growth
- The complexitiy of sacred symbols like mandalas, yantras, and the tree of life can have a calming and meditative effect.
Layout
- A small amount of asymmetry can create an organic flow that feels easy and open.
- Space around elements introduce the air element creating a. Calm, reflective and mindful feeling
- Presenting information in small, digestible chunks can provide mental clarity.
- Centering headlines can create balance as can evenly spacing items, even if space assymetrically
- Separating sections of a webpage with curved or diagonal lines can present a journey and movement.
- Translucent overlapping elements can create depth without clutter.
Using Elements That Are Universally Understood To Promote Healing
People who will be attracted to a wellness practice that highlights discovery, freeing oneself from mental burdens, and includes a spiritual element will feel understood by a website that plays up a personal journey that is holistic and individualized and based in the energy work that fuels transformation. Using elements with universal symbology and colors or textures that glow and are reflective provide an immediate understanding that deep work can take place with you.
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