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CDH Investment Bank’s website on phones over a tangerine ground: Banking innovations that help your business grow

Case study / CDH Investment Bank

CDH Investment Bank. Every service in its place.

Prospective customers can find the service that fits them, then see how to contact the bank. Geeklab designed and built the website and its visual system for Malawi’s CDH Investment Bank, and has maintained it under a service agreement since February 2026.

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Website design / Development / Visual system

Banking

At a glance

Client
CDH Investment Bank
Sector
Banking
Where
Malawi
What we did
Website design, development, visual system and maintenance
Result
Nine service areas in one structure, maintained under a service agreement since February 2026

The brief

A clear structure for the bank’s services

The bank needed its nine service areas, from investment banking and treasury to the payments portal, organised for prospective customers. The public pages also needed a consistent visual identity.

The challenge

What a bank’s website has to get right

Banking services can be hard to tell apart. The website had to explain them clearly, look professional, follow the WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines, carry the hardened security a regulated bank needs and make contact easy.

The visual system

One identity on every public page

We applied the bank’s logo, six-colour palette and icons to the website. The site uses DM Sans and Source Sans alongside the brand guide’s Calibri typography.

01Logo

Three letters, five rings

The full logo is used on official documents and the website header. The icon version is used for social profiles and the favicon. The rings represent focus and unity.

Full logo, on dark
Icon logo, on dark
Full logo, on light
Icon logo, on light

02Colour

Blue for trust, paired with tangerine

The guide specifies six primary colours, with 80, 60, 20 and 5 percent tints for backgrounds. Blue is the bank’s established colour, chosen to convey depth and stability.

  • Tangerine

    #F58220
    RGB 245 130 32

    Paired with blue; the logo’s rings

  • Blue

    #211D70
    RGB 33 29 112

    Corporate colour, icons and the logo’s ground

  • Dark grayish

    #9A9C9F
    RGB 154 156 159

    Primary, tinted for backgrounds

  • Light grayish blue

    #E9EDF5
    RGB 233 237 245

    Primary, tinted for backgrounds

  • Moderate blue

    #544FD6
    RGB 84 79 214

    Primary, tinted for backgrounds

  • Black

    #050508
    RGB 5 5 8

    Primary, tinted for backgrounds

03Type

Calibri in the guide, DM Sans on the website

The brand guide specifies Calibri Bold for headlines and Calibri Regular for body text, reserving Copperplate for the logo. The website uses DM Sans for headings and Source Sans for text, both at weight 400.

Calibri Bold and Calibri Regular, each with its alphabet and figures, as the brand guide shows themCalibri, from the brand guide

DM Sans, with Source Sans

  • DM Sans 400, headings and buttons
  • Source Sans 400, text

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ( ) %

  • H1, 63 on 81

    Banking innovations that help your business grow

  • H2, 40 on 47

    Innovative financial solutions tailored to your goals

  • H4, 24 on 34

    Corporate banking built around you

  • Text, Source Sans, 17 on 25.5

    Work with Malawi’s only full-service investment bank for expert support on complex financial transactions. From capital restructuring to project finance, we turn challenges into growth.

04Icons

Twelve icons, one style

The guide’s icons lead visitors through the bank’s services: one consistent style, each chosen for its meaning and placed where it helps the message.

Icons in blue, from the brand guide

The website

How a customer finds the right service

Captured from the live site: the homepage, then the route from the bank’s business to a service, its rates and a contact.

cdh-malawi.com
The CDH Investment Bank homepage, from the hero to the footer

  1. 01Explore the business

    cdh-malawi.com/our-business
    The Our business page: Banking innovations that help your business grow.

  2. 02Choose a service

    cdh-malawi.com/investment-banking
    The Investment banking page, with a button to explore financial solutions.

  3. 03Check the rates

    cdh-malawi.com/rates
    The Rates and resources page: interest rates, foreign exchange rates, tariffs, forms and a financial calculator.

  4. 04Contact the bank

    cdh-malawi.com/contact-us
    The Contact us page: Have any questions? We are here to help, beside a contact form.

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The result

Clear to explore, simple to contact

Prospective customers can explore the bank’s services in a clear structure, with contact routes beside the information and one look throughout.

Service areas in one structure
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