diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 9e76436dfbfca09188659fe33379314719b0f3fc..b66ab4175786054ad85cb510ffa9fc12d09ea754 100755
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
 
   <!-- If you have a custom header image or colour -->
   <!-- 
-  <meta name="ebi-localmasthead-color" content="#000">
   -->
+  <meta name="ebi-localmasthead-color" content="#091314">
   <meta name="ebi-localmasthead-image" content="https://ebiwd.github.io/EBI-Framework/images/backgrounds/embl-ebi-background-4.jpg">
 
     <!-- you can replace this with [projectname]-colours.css. See http://www.ebi.ac.uk/web/style/colour for details of how to do this -->