Case Study — Brand Identity & Website Design

DISCOVER

DESIGN

GROW

Authority
Made Visible.
AndersMae Advisors.

A premier supplier diversity consultancy operating in high-stakes enterprise markets needed a brand and website that commanded the room before she said a word. We built it.

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INDUSTRY

Supplier Diversity Advisory

CLIENT BASE

Defense · Tech · Healthcare · Infrastructure

SCOPE

Brand Identity + Website Design

SERVICES

Design · Grow


THE CHALLENGE

A World-Class Advisor.
A New Brand That Needed an Online Presence.

AndersMae Advisors operates in a space that most people misunderstand and most consultants underserve — supplier diversity as a technical and operational discipline, not a marketing initiative. Her clients are procurement leaders, government agencies, and growth-stage suppliers inside high-complexity, high-spend industries where a supplier failure isn't just an inconvenience — it's a contractual, financial, and reputational event.

She needed a brand and website that immediately communicated that gravity. Not a soft, feel-good diversity consultancy aesthetic — but the visual language of the room where serious decisions get made. She came to Consort Creative to discover her brand's true voice, design a presence that reflects her expertise, and build a platform to grow her reach with the clients who need her most.

DEFENSE

TECHNOLOGY

HEALTHCARE

Infastructure

Public Agencies

Client

AndersMae Advisors - Darretta Whitfield
IDEAL CLIENT PROFILE

Enterprise buyers & sellers who treat supplier diversity as an operational challenge

Deliverables

Brand Identity

Color System

landing page DESIGN

typography

Ai SEO

PRIMARY GOAL

Position AndersMae as the authority in high-complexity supplier diversity markets


OUR METHODOLOGY

Discover. Design. Grow

Every Consort Creative engagement follows a deliberate three-phase framework — connecting brand positioning to real business outcomes through strategy, identity, and search visibility.

DISCOVER

01

Defining the Brand Through the Lens of Her Clients

We began by mapping AndersMae's ideal client precisely: organizations in defense, tech, healthcare, and infrastructure that view supplier diversity as a technical and operational challenge — not a PR one. Understanding that positioning fully informed every decision that followed, from color selection to site architecture to the language used across each page.

Design

02

Building a Visual Identity That Commands Respect

With the positioning defined, we developed a full brand identity system — primary and secondary palette, a three-font typographic hierarchy, and a focused landing page structure. The site was built around a deliberate narrative: who she is, how she works, what she delivers, and why she's the only choice. Every design decision was pressure-tested against a single question: does this look like the partner a procurement director at a defense contractor would trust with a complex supplier program?

grow

03

Structured for Enterprise Visibility From Day One

AI SEO and generative engine optimization were built into the site architecture from the start — ensuring AndersMae surfaces in both traditional search and AI-assisted responses when enterprise procurement leaders search for supplier diversity expertise in her target verticals. The site copy, page structure, and semantic framework were all aligned to attract qualified, high-intent visitors and convert them into conversations.


BRAND IDENTITY SYSTEM

Colors & Typography —
The Identity.

Every color and typeface in the AndersMae identity system was chosen to communicate authority, precision, and the quiet confidence of someone who has been the most prepared person in every room she's entered.

PRIMARY PALETTE


Deep Wine

#3C151B


Dark Navy
#1E232F

Blush Cream
#EAE3E1

Deep Wine anchors the identity with distinction — serious and deliberate without cold distance. Dark Navy forms the institutional foundation, evoking the environments where AndersMae does her best work. Blush Cream introduces warmth and legibility, building trust across diverse stakeholders.

SECONDARY PALETTE


Blue Gray

#85909c


Bronze

#B68554

Gold

#D7AA39

Bronze and Gold add the accent of earned prestige — not flashy wealth, but the kind of measured excellence that comes from real expertise and sustained results. Used selectively, they signal value without overstatement.

TYPOGRAPHY SYSTEM

HEADINGS
Noto Sans
Bold · Structured · Enterprise authority — the voice of the boardroom

BODY COPY
JOSEFIN SANS REGULAR — PRECISE, CLEAN, EFFICIENT
Geometric · Refined · High legibility at all sizes

ACCENT

Birthstone

Script · Signature-like · Introduces personality without sacrificing professionalism


THE FULL STORY

COLOR & VISUAL
IDENTITY RATIONALE

Colors That Signal Authority Before
She Says a Word.

The palette we built for AndersMae Advisors was designed to signal authority, precision, and quiet confidence — the qualities her enterprise clients expect before they ever schedule a call. Deep Wine anchors the identity with weight and distinction, a color that reads as serious and deliberate without the cold distance of a corporate navy alone. Dark Navy serves as the foundational structure, evoking the institutional environments — defense contractors, healthcare systems, infrastructure agencies — where AndersMae does her best work.

Blush Cream introduces warmth and legibility, preventing the palette from feeling impenetrable or exclusively masculine, which matters in a space where she is building trust across diverse stakeholders. The secondary palette of Bronze, Bluish Gray and Gold adds the accent of earned prestige — not flashy wealth, but the kind of measured excellence that comes from real expertise. Together, the palette communicates exactly what her clients need to feel before they engage: this advisor has been in the room, she knows the stakes, and she won't waste your time.


THE PROCESS

Designed to Resonate With the
Most Demanding Buyers in the World.

The project began with a clear brief: AndersMae's ideal client views supplier diversity as a data and operations problem — not a PR one — and her brand needed to reflect that positioning immediately. From there, we developed her full visual identity, including the primary and secondary palette, typography system using Noto Sans for authoritative headings, Josefin Sans for clean body copy, and Birthstone as an elegant accent font that introduces personality without undermining professionalism.

The website was designed as a single, focused landing page structured to move a qualified visitor through a deliberate narrative: who she is, how she works, what she delivers, and why she's the right choice. The four-section approach framework — Assess, Develop, Activate, Support — was built as a visual centerpiece to show that her methodology is systematic and repeatable. The site was built to appeal specifically to procurement and operations decision-makers who will read the page carefully and make a fast judgment about whether she understands their world. AI SEO and generative engine optimization were layered into the architecture from the start.


THE RESULTS

A Brand That Finally Reflects
the Expertise She’s Built.

As a branding agency for consultants we discovered how to target her auditnecce. The website launched with a brand presence that finally matches the sophistication of the work AndersMae actually delivers. For the first time, a prospect arriving at her site sees a visual identity and content structure that reflects the complexity and seriousness of her practice — immediately distinguishing her from the broader field of diversity consultants who lead with compliance messaging rather than operational expertise.

With the Discover, Design, and Grow phases complete, AndersMae now enters every new business conversation backed by a brand that does real work before she walks in the room. Performance metrics and client feedback will be published here as they develop post-launch. Consort Creative is a branding agency for consultants and professional services firms who need their visual identity to carry the same authority as their expertise — and the AndersMae engagement is exactly what that looks like in practice.


CLIENT REVIEW


"Consort Creative delivered exceptional work on the AndersMae website, creating a polished, professional digital presence that perfectly aligns with the firm's enterprise-level positioning."

Shape2Tone now enters every client conversation backed by a visual identity that communicates 14 years of expertise from the very first impression. The site is live, the brand is unified, and the foundation for sustained growth is in place.


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