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Branding Color Naming Print 2025 • v1.0 1 min read

Station — Coffee bar identity

A neighbourhood coffee bar that needed a name, a mark, and a cup that reads from across the street.

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Station

Overview

Legible at four metres.

Six competing shops on one block, all using the same warm minimal palette. A single saturated colour nobody else on the block was using, applied at full strength everywhere. Recognition from the far sidewalk, confirmed by a week of counting.

Problem

Six competing shops on one block, all using the same warm minimal palette.

Approach

A single saturated colour nobody else on the block was using, applied at full strength everywhere.

Outcome

Recognition from the far sidewalk, confirmed by a week of counting.

A neighbourhood coffee bar that needed a name, a mark, and a cup that reads from across the street.

Six competing shops on one block, all using the same warm minimal palette. A single saturated colour nobody else on the block was using, applied at full strength everywhere.

Recognition from the far sidewalk, confirmed by a week of counting.

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