CŒURS/BRAVES.
Cœurs Braves is an international African association active in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Germany and the diaspora. It runs five solidarity programmes — Academy, Technology Center, Marmite, agriculture, employment — and needed a site that gave the whole a single voice.
Challenge: Fit a multi-programme, multi-country association into a trilingual site with no database, editable by a non-technical team, and without a single third-party request — so it stays GDPR-compliant.
Scoping & editorial architecture
Weeks 1-2
Cream / terracotta design system
Weeks 3-5
Astro build & content collections
Weeks 6-8
Translations, CMS & go-live
Weeks 9-10
French, German, English — complete page trees.
13 pages rendered in all three languages.
Self-hosted fonts, no Google Fonts.
Academy, Technology Center, Marmite…
The interface delivered.
Fig 1.0 — coeursbraves.vercel.app, in production.
The colour system.
Flows & screens.
Tech
Sheet.
Deliverables
What it changed.
Three languages, three real page trees
Rather than a language switcher bolted onto a French site, each locale has its own page tree and its own content collections. A journal article can exist in German without waiting for a French translation, and URLs stay readable in every language.
White as a deliberate stance
The brand guidelines call for a light dominant: cream holds most of the surface, while terracotta, forest green and gold appear only as accents. Dark sections are reserved for the manifesto and the ecosystem, which gives them the weight a permanent block of colour would have taken away.
Project credits.
