Aika Africa
Landing options · v2
Four refreshed directions for the Aika Africa landing page.
A single, consistent design system across all four — a more techy green, a richer brown, a polished menu and one beautiful button family — each given a sparkly, distinctly African feel. Open each, then tell me which to take forward (or which pieces to mix).
opportunity.
Gateway
The refreshed flagship. Deep forest-green hero warmed with terracotta & gold glows, an electric-emerald "techy" accent, immersive map, twinkling sparkle and the new polished menu + button system.
View Option Aopportunity.
Terracotta
Option A, re-skinned. The header swaps green for a rich, deep brown-maroon — the institutional palette, made richer like the primary button — with emerald, terracotta & gold kept as sparkly accents.
View Option BNova
Inspired by laboremus — which is actually a clean, warm-white site, not a dark one. A bright canvas with a scanning-verification hero (soft halo + pulse rings + an emerald scan-beam), uppercase mono labels, a ticker and outline→fill pill buttons, in Aika's emerald & gold.
View Option Copportunity.
Sage
Option A in a lighter key — the same Gateway layout with a soft pastel-green hero instead of the dark forest stage. Clean and airy: dark ink on mint, no glow or sparkle.
View Option DShared across all four: one design system — a deeper, techy emerald green, a richer brown-maroon, terracotta & gold spice, one consistent pill-button family, a polished sticky menu with an animated underline and a mobile drawer, and tasteful CSS motion (twinkling sparkle on Gateway; a scanning-verification hero on Nova). Terracotta now runs clean with no sparkle or hero glow, and Sage (D) is Gateway in a light pastel-green key. Same content throughout: the Find capital / Looking for pipeline split, Sign in & Join now routing to the platform, the USD 331B gap stats, how-it-works (screen → match → NDA → 2-week access), two-sided value for SMEs & investors, unicorn screening, trust & compliance, and footer. The current logo (assets/logo.svg) is used throughout.
Eight directions for the logo.
The current mark sits first, for reference. Options 3 & 4 are the two submitted concepts — the Summit arrow and the Network shield — redrawn cleanly in the v2 palette. The rest are fresh directions, each built from one idea: maroon, emerald, terracotta & gold, shown on a light and a dark tile so you can judge it either way. Tell me which to take forward (or which pieces to merge).
Pinwheel & globe
Four petals around a quartered globe with a crossing ribbon. Lots of detail — needs a white badge to read on dark.
Convergence
The current mark, distilled. Four petals turn into a clean aperture — four sources of capital meeting at one centre.
Wordmark
No icon — type carries the whole palette: maroon A, terracotta i, emerald k. The warm, multi-accent brand, spelled out.
Summit
Your “Opportunity Marketplace” mark, cleaned up — kente-textured emerald peaks and a gold arrow breaking out at the top. Growth and African pattern in one shape.
Network shield
Your “Investment & Growth” crest, tidied — a maroon shield holding a terracotta network of connected players, kente at the base. Trust plus connection.
Updraft
A folded arrow on the rise — momentum and returns. A warm gradient with a lit gold edge and an emerald slipstream beneath. Built with depth, not flat.
Ascent A
The Aika “A” and a rising arrow are the same shape — a gold arrowhead crowns two legs in emerald and maroon. Doubles as a one-glyph favicon.
Gateway
An arch with a keystone node and a path rising through it — the gateway to African opportunity, straight from the brand’s single-page positioning.
Constellation climb
The two submitted ideas, merged — a network of connected players that climbs to a gold-cored summit. Capital flowing up through opportunity.