Case 009Brand Identity2026

Molekul food & soul labScience meets soul.

A sweet shop with a chemistry name and an emotional core. We built a brand that holds both — clinical and warm, precise and playful, lab and lullaby.

Molekul Food & Soul Lab is a Novi Sad sweet shop where waffles, cremes, and desserts get composed like formulas. The brand had to honor the name's two halves — the lab on the left, the soul on the right. We built a system that lets the science feel warm and the warmth feel considered, with a black molecular mark anchoring rainbow gradient surfaces and bold typographic posters carrying the emotional voice.

Molekul food & soul lab poster mounted on a city street wall
03/Brief
Molekul

A sweet shop. That sounds like a science.

04/Approach
The Approach

One mark. One palette. Two moods.

01 — The Lab

A black mark, drawn precise.

The logomark reads as molecular — two pills and a dot, like an atom diagram or a piece of musical notation. Black, geometric, considered. The scientific half of the brand.

02 — The Soul

A gradient of feelings.

Pink, coral, yellow, teal, blue — soft painterly gradients that wash behind the black mark. Never primary, never harsh. The emotional half of the brand.

03 — The Voice

Affirmations, not advertising.

"Where sweetness is not a sin." "We don't just serve desserts — we serve little moments of feeling alive." The brand talks like a friend at midnight, not a brochure.

Fig. 01 — The Mark
The black molecular mark rendered in 3D. Floating on a soft surface, embossed treatment.
The black molecular mark rendered in 3D. Floating on a soft surface, embossed treatment.
Fig. 03 — The Menu
The full menu document showing 30+ products typeset across two columns on black background.
The full menu document showing 30+ products typeset across two columns on black background.
Fig. 04 — Packaging
First custom box design.
Second custom box design.
Third custom box design.
Fourth custom box design.
Fig. 05 — Poster Series
The Poster Series

Words on color. Color on feeling.

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10/Applications
Applications

One brand. Many surfaces.

Round stickers with the molecular mark — placed on cups, boxes, bags.
The mark in physical space — window vinyl, neon, or printed signage.
Embossed marks on cards and paper — the logo you feel before you read it.
The mark on aprons, tote bags, and tees — worn, not just printed.
11/Type
Typography

Heavy for the loud moments. Light for the rest.

Display — Onest 800
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MOLEKUL · POSTERS · STATEMENTS

Geometric sans, used heavy. Carries the wordmark, the posters, and any time the brand needs to speak first.

Body — Onest 400
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Welcome to Molekul where science meets soul (and chocolate). Where sweetness is not a sin. We don't just serve desserts — we serve little moments of feeling alive.

Same family, lighter weight. Used for menu copy, packaging text, body — the soul-side of the brand voice.

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Seven colours. One gradient.

Black anchors everything. The rainbow flows beneath — pink, coral, yellow, teal, blue. Together they create the gradient surface that defines every Molekul application.

01 / Anchor

Ink

#0E1320

The mark, the menu, the structural color.

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Pink

#E94B8C

Sweetness, joy, the soul half.

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Coral

#E74C5E

Warmth, accents, CTAs.

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Yellow

#F4C942

Light, sun, the brightest note.

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Teal

#3FB4C5

Calm, water, the cooling note.

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Blue

#5570F1

Depth, contrast, structure.

07 / Paper

Paper

#FAFAF7

Backgrounds, the page itself.

13/Decisions
Design Decisions

Four moves worth defending.

01

A molecular mark, not a swirl.

Every sweet shop logo defaults to a cupcake, a heart, or hand-lettering. Molekul gets a black geometric mark — two pills and a dot. Looks like an atom diagram, reads like a brand.

02

Black on rainbow, not rainbow on white.

The gradient surfaces are loud, but the mark is the loudest object on them — a heavy black blob anchoring the chaos. The brand never feels chaotic because black always wins.

03

Posters that aren't advertising.

The Instagram poster series is feelings, not products. "Even in the dark, something inside you still glows." A sweet shop talking like a friend who knows you're tired.

04

A menu, not a brochure.

Black background, two columns, 30+ products listed straight. Custom Mix bases, crèmes, drizzles, premium toppings, kid's portions, chef's formules. The lab half of the brand showing up where it matters.

14/Notes
We don't just serve desserts. We serve little moments of feeling alive.

— From the Molekul box, 2026

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