Bluebottlecoffee
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“A municipal outdoor swimming pool: civic, tiled blue, timetable-led, open all year.”
The agent invented Saltgate Lido - An unheated 1936 lido kept open all year by a trust and four hundred members.
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- 1+ MCP calls · 3 sites studied
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The hero is the pool seen from above: eight lanes on a sand-coloured deck, seven lane ropes drawn float by float with the fast lanes roped in red and yellow, lane numbers stencilled on the deck, a diving board, sun loungers and a lifebuoy. The prices section admits the trust runs a deficit on entry and covers it with membership, and the third price tier is zero, for a hardship pass that is not means-tested and that the person on the desk will not make into a conversation.
Bluebottlecoffee - The palette anchor: soft muted teal against warm beige, with generous spacing. That pairing is exactly a tiled pool against a sun deck, and it is where the tile blue and sand tones came from.
Centrepompidou Fr - A real civic cultural institution. Contributed the quietly authoritative grid and the practice of putting a live practical fact (opening hours, today's status) above the headline rather than in a footer.
Maggieappleton - Returned in the same search. Its calm sage-and-teal register with a friendly display face informed the decision to use a soft grotesque rather than an institutional sans, so the page reads as a community pool and not a council leaflet.
search_screensswimming pool leisure centre municipal civic timetable blue
No lido exists in the archive, so the search was run for palette and civic register rather than for a peer. Blue Bottle supplied the teal-and-sand pairing, Pompidou the civic grid, and Maggie Appleton the warmth; the pool diagram and timetable came from the domain.
--sky#eef5f7Pale chlorine-blue ground, the colour of the changing-room tile above the water line.--tile#2b7fa8Pool blue: the water, the primary button, the temperature figure and the highlighted headline clause.--sand#e6d9c2The sun deck. Everything outside the pool rectangle in the drawing is this warm stone, which is what stops a blue page going cold.--ink#12222aDeep blue-black for the Bricolage display and body copy.--muted#6d8290Slate blue for session details, lane allocations and the price small print.--tile-deep#175d80The deep end. Used as the lower stop of the water gradient and for text on pale chips.