Northgate

Why it looks this way.

Typography

Red Hat Display for headings, Red Hat Text for reading and Red Hat Mono for times and labels. One family in three cuts keeps four campuses visibly the same church, and the mono gives service times the steadiness of a departure board. The display face has open, round letters that still read on a lobby screen at the back of a high-school auditorium.

• Red Hat Display headlines
• Red Hat Text body text
• Red Hat Mono labels

Color

The red comes from Georgia clay along GA-400 in the cuts by the Windward exit, deepened until white type on it passes AA. It sits on a cool blue-gray because the buildings are modern and the photography is full of stage light. Marigold is held back for small highlights. In dark mode the red lifts toward coral and the background goes to the navy of a darkened auditorium.

• Page #F2F3F6
• Cards #FFFFFF
• Text #141A2B
• Brand #C23B29
• Accent #F2A93B

Layout

A tabbed bar works like the church app most members already use, with seven tabs that stay put under a compact header. Big multisite sites tend to hide things in mega-menus, and here every section is one tap away on a phone. The nav button always says Pick your campus, because that is the decision every visitor has to make first.

Pages: Home, Campuses, First Sunday, Kids & Students, Watch, Serve, Give

Hero

Three doors replace a headline: a first Sunday, kids and students, and serving. Each is a real photograph from the kind of room it leads to. Directly underneath, one table shows every service at every campus, so nobody has to open four pages to compare times.

Calls to action

The words describe the task: Pick your campus, Pre-register your kids, Tell us you're coming, Find a serve shift. Kids' pre-registration has a hero form of its own, because parents told us the check-in line was the most stressful five minutes of a first visit.

Photography

Real rooms with stage light, kids' classrooms with chairs that fit them, volunteers in team shirts. We avoided the arena-crowd silhouettes that make every large church look the same. Campus pastors are shown as people, smiling and out of costume.

Accessibility

Every text pairing passes WCAG AA in both themes. The schedule is a real table with headers, the tabs are a labeled navigation landmark, and the live stream lists its captions and chapter times as text. Buttons are at least 44 pixels tall for thumbs in a parking lot.