01 — The idea
Letters like smooth stones. Nothing sharp anywhere, which is the whole promise of the practice.
Client
a children's dental practice
Construction
the word 'pebble' in ultra-heavy soft blobby lowercase where every letter is a rounded stone shape, the two b's touching, the counters tiny
03 — On light
COBALT on BUTTER
03 — On dark
CORAL on COBALT
05 — Clear space
Clear space equals the x-height on all sides.
Minimum 20 mm wide in print · 96 px on screen
06 — Scale
Favicon: Single p. Below 12 mm the wordmark is dropped and the symbol stands alone.
08 — Typography
Unbounded — Headings
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
Figtree — Body
Body copy is set at 16–18 px on screen and 9.5–10.5 pt in print, sentence case, with a maximum measure of 66 characters. Never letter-space lowercase body text.
DM Mono — Labels
Labels · captions · specification lines
09 — Do and do not
✓Cobalt on butter
✓Butter on cobalt
✓Coral for the second b only
✕Do not outline the letters
✕Do not separate the touching b's
✕Do not use more than two colours


A studio identity exercise. Mark, palette, type system and usage rules by the Print Peppermint design team.
Every identity we build ships with the file the press needs: vector mark, one-colour version, favicon set, Pantone Uncoated references and a guide like this one.
Start a brand project →A studio exercise. pebble, and every brand in this series, is invented — no client commissioned it and none of it was ever sold.