Allergy season. The words alone can ignite sneezing fits and watery eyes in more than 50 million Americans. Fortunately, Zuntite’s approval-pending formula may soon spell relief.
Logo and MArketing Brief
A Scandinavian allergy staple for more than thirty years, the Zuntite brand plans to make its foray into the North American market in the next few years. For the new market, Zuntite wanted for its product a new logo and look. The previous logo looked and felt more like a logo for a prescription medication or medication manufacturer. The new logo would be more customer friendly as it would be for over-the-counter sales. The current logo appears below.
Logo Design
Insomniac Studios designed a custom typeface for the brand’s logo, packaging, marketing materials and advertisements. The custom typeface is paired with the ubiquitous crowd favorite, Helvetica Light. Insomniac Studios designed the brand’s typeface to be representative of the minimalist principles of Scandanavian design. The letterforms are simple and monowidth. All of the letter’s stems and ascenders are 90 degrees perpendicular to the baseline; all of the horizontal elements run parallel. The central line in the letter z and the line that forms the bottom of the counter in the letter e both run at 45 degrees to the baseline. This creates a sense of balance and symmetry in the logotype.
To keep the logotype compact and distinguish it from the Helvetica below, Insomniac Studios rounded the corners and reduced the stem height of the u, t and i. This served to reduce the logo’s overall height, but also eliminated the visual confusion between the u and the n and the two t’s and the i. The umlaut over the u allowed the u to regain some height, when compared to the n, without towering over it as it did when both letters were the same height.
To keep the brand simple and minimalist, Insomniac Studios forwent the traditional logomark. Instead, it decided to use the umlaut U as secondary smile logo to augment the brand’s marketing and advertising efforts. To further extend the secondary logo to tertiary brand uses, four U smiles were rotated into the shape of a medical cross or Greek cross. This symbol imparts health and wellness into the Zuntite brand.
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