Cardinal Financial Launches New Brand

    CHARLOTTE, NC, September 16, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- After three years of explosive growth, mortgage lender Cardinal Financial Company, Limited Partnership rebrands and launches a new website, logo, color palette, and more. The company's vision to lead and disrupt the mortgage industry by modernizing the way home loans are obtained is fully realized in this new brand refresh. While its original logo and website served their purpose in Cardinal Financial's formative years, the company's recent volume spikes and rapid growth made it clear that now is the prime time to rebrand.

"Cardinal Financial is entering a transcendent period in its history. In three years, we've grown from a handful of people to nearly 900 employees serving the country as a nationwide lender," Senior Marketing Brand Director Roman Vega said. "We are leveraging this opportunity to reposition the company, to create brand awareness and ultimately make Cardinal Financial a household name."

With the launch of its new logo and website, Cardinal Financial has also developed five brand truths: Modern, Precision, Simplicity, Speed, and Transparency. "A company's brand and the pillars behind it create a foundation for the future. Cardinal Financial is at a point in its growth cycle where aligning the internal vision with our internal and external messaging is critical for employees and customers to understand our place in the industry," Senior Vice President of Marketing Colin Treend said.

Cardinal Financial's new logo is a clear representation of these brand truths. "It was a very long, intense, and demanding process of taking multiple sketches, strategies, and ideas and morphing them into a united look," Brand Designer Erica Ryan said. "But, I was able to pluck out the necessary direction that I felt was useful to establish our desire for a stronger presence. Things like, 'It has to be modern,' and 'It has to deliver precision.' I used the five brand truths to help dictate shapes and forms which evolved each sketch and idea into logo elements."

When observing Cardinal Financial's former logo--a red, triangular design next to a wordmark of the company's name--it's hard not to notice how strikingly different the new logo appears. "This was a strategic move to define those truths and to define the idea of a smooth and modern lending experience," Ryan said.

Although the new logo is simple, the process Ryan took to arrive at this design was not. "In most scenarios, designers start working with the brand architecture and vision to create a new logo and identity for the brand. However, mixing the old look with a new vision proved to be a challenge as a means to drive this creative process," Ryan said. "After kicking around some new ideas for the redesign of the website, I realized that our current brand couldn't fully support our new vision. Once I sketched out new site pages and brought these ideas to life through design, I felt that we had outgrown the color palette and the logo."

As a company evolves, so should its brand. Cardinal Financial proves this as it boldly steps out on the mortgage industry scene with this total brand transformation. "We're excited about this change and believe that our brand relaunch will keep everyone focused on the vision of disrupting and modernizing the way home loans are obtained," Treend said.

About Cardinal Financial:
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cardinal Financial Company, Limited Partnership is a nationwide direct mortgage lender that provides modernized home financing solutions. The company's proprietary technology and unparalleled expertise converge to redefine the standard and facilitate a lending experience of unrivaled precision and speed. Since the company's inception in 1987, Cardinal Financial has routinely funded over $1 billion in loans every year. Additionally, the company is approved to sell direct to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae, and is authorized to sell FHA, VA, and USDA loans. Cardinal Financial's commitment to transparency, simplicity, and value makes the complicated process of obtaining a home loan simpler. For more information about Cardinal Financial, visit cardinalfinancial.com, or find them on social media: facebook.com/cardinalfinancial, @CardFinancial on Twitter, and @CardinalFinancial on Instagram.

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