Giving
substance
some style

Health Equalities Group
Visual and verbal identity

Helping Health Equalities Group tell their story without hamming up or dumbing down.

Green background with black curved lines and a small gray square.

What we did

Positioning
Messaging
Tone of voice
Visual identity
Brand guidelines

Health Equalities Group is a public health charity working to improve the wellbeing of communities across the UK.

In particular, they work to tackle the circumstances that drive health inequalities in our society, empowering communities with the information and resources to make healthier choices and live happier lives.

Their work is vital and their story compelling, but the way they looked and sounded was stopping them telling it. So they turned to Lark.

Collection of publications from the Health Equalities Group, including reports on housing, public spaces, and community health, with colorful covers featuring text and graphics.

“We were looking for a branding agency who could not only develop a new visual identity for the organisation, but bring the voice of the charity alive. HEG’s experience of working with Lark was overwhelmingly positive, from an early ‘discovery phase’ through to delivery of the updated visual and verbal brands for the organisation. Lark were excellent at guiding HEG through each step of the process, and we have received very positive feedback from our key stakeholders now the new branding has been applied to our digital assets across the organisation.”

Matthew Philpott, executive director

A website homepage for Health Equalities Group (HEG) displayed on a laptop screen. The page features a green and beige color scheme with the HEG logo in the top left corner. The main title states, 'We're Health Equalities Group, a public health charity working to improve the wellbeing of communities across the UK.' Below, there are sections titled 'Our work' with icons and text about communities, green spaces, and health.

We then developed a new visual brand that balanced warmth and accessibility with professionalism and expertise, as well as bringing through the themes of sustainability, opportunity and choice from the verbal identity.

Three colored squares on a green background, with shadows. The first square is beige, the second is dark green, and the third is orange with faint diagonal marks.

After a light Discovery phase, we created a new brand language that helped HEG go from dry and clinical to impactful and inspiring, without dumbing down or sensationalising what are often complex and nuanced topics.

A person wearing a blue shirt working on a laptop at a cluttered desk with papers, books, and office supplies.
A series of presentation slides detailing branding guidelines for the Health Equalities Group, including logos, color palettes, graphic device usage, typography, and legibility guidance.

More work

A woman in a teal jacket points to a yellow graphic with the words 'Raise your game' and a kettlebell icon with '8KG' written inside it.