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Nord Coffee

A specialty roaster whose bags looked like everyone else's specialty roaster.

CLIENT Nord Coffee
SECTOR CPG & specialty food
YEAR 2023
SERVICES Visual Identity

The challenge

Shelf presence mattered more than the brand had budget for. Nord needed to stand out next to a dozen visually similar specialty bags — kraft paper, hand-drawn illustration, the same three fonts — without a photography budget to compete on.

The approach

We built a typographic system designed to work at bag scale from six feet away, not just on a desk. Roast level is coded through color and pattern rather than imagery, so the system communicates instantly without needing new photography for every seasonal blend.

Every print file was built to test cheaply, so small first-run batches stay affordable while the roastery scales.

The result

Twelve SKUs now share one system that reads clearly on a shelf, at a price the roastery can actually print.

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