How to Choose the Right Palette for Your Brand

F*&K THE CLICHE

F*&K THE CLICHE

F*&K THE CLICHE

Nov 10, 2025

Nov 10, 2025

Nov 10, 2025
How to Choose the Right Palette for Your Brand
How to Choose the Right Palette for Your Brand
How to Choose the Right Palette for Your Brand

Introduction

The Challenge: Most brands get lost in the sea of similarity. Marketing departments default to tired, safe ideas—the clichés—because it’s the path of least resistance. This means audiences scroll right past them. A safe idea is a forgotten idea.

The Omakase Insight

Clichés are brand killers. To get a jaded audience to stop and pay attention, you must give them something they've never seen before. We believe the only way to drive brand reappraisal—getting people to fundamentally change how they view a brand—is by taking the road less traveled.

The Challenge: Most brands get lost in the sea of similarity. Marketing departments default to tired, safe ideas—the clichés—because it’s the path of least resistance. This means audiences scroll right past them. A safe idea is a forgotten idea.

The Omakase Insight

Clichés are brand killers. To get a jaded audience to stop and pay attention, you must give them something they've never seen before. We believe the only way to drive brand reappraisal—getting people to fundamentally change how they view a brand—is by taking the road less traveled.

Main Discussion

Why It Matters

The high road is crowded; the unique path is open. Generic marketing might reassure the boardroom, but it fails to move the customer. Our focus isn't on following "best practices," but on developing unique solutions that create authentic, shareable moments. When the execution is unique, the audience is forced to engage and reappraise the brand's position and value.

How We Take the Road Less Traveled

Challenging the Obvious: Consider the cliches and intentionally stay away from them because those are the ideas every competitor is also having.

Strategic Disruption: We uncover uncommon insights and build campaigns that solve problems differently. For Pearl Bank, we didn't run generic motivational posters; we launched a full-scale, gamified "Mission Possible" internal culture shift.

Audience-First Authenticity: We develop solutions that speak the audience's authentic language and live in their real world, generating affinity where it actually matters.

Choosing the right color palette
Choosing the right color palette
Choosing the right color palette
Colors impact emotions
Colors impact emotions
Colors impact emotions

Key Takeaways

If your marketing looks like everyone else's, you'll be treated like everyone else. Our mission is to disrupt expectations, not conform to them. What cliché is holding your brand back from being reappraised?

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WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO BE TIRED IN THE PURSUIT OF A CHALLENGE OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING.

OMAKASE

WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO BE TIRED IN THE PURSUIT OF A CHALLENGE OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING.

OMAKASE

WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO BE TIRED IN THE PURSUIT OF A CHALLENGE OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING.

OMAKASE