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N° 09 · Brand Identity · Character Design

beany.

A coffee brand built on a simple idea: everyone is running their own race, and sometimes all you need is a pause. Run your race. Rest at Beany.

Client
Beany
Category
Coffee · Hospitality
Year
2026
Scope
Identity · Packaging
Mascot
Bean + Bunny
Status
Live
Beany sticker logo on a café storefront
FIG. 01 · STOREFRONT

The Idea

The tortoise and the hare, read backwards.

Most people remember the rabbit for stopping mid-race. We saw the opposite. The rabbit understood that rest is part of the journey, not a failure in it.

That became the whole brand. Beany is the pause in a busy day, the small reason to slow down and start again with more in the tank.

The Mascot

Bean plus bunny, one character.

We drew the name straight into the logo. A coffee bean and a sitting bunny merge to form the B in Beany, so the wordmark and the character are the same gesture.

The bunny carries comfort and warmth. The coffee carries the ritual. Together they replace the usual coffee-shop polish with a face people actually want around.

Visual Direction

Soft colour, playful type, a cast of moods.

Pastel blues, greens and oranges, a rounded handmade wordmark, and a family of bunny stickers that turn up on cups, bags, flags and walls.

Approachable, comforting, and impossible to mistake for anyone else on the high street.

The Logo

the name, drawn into the mark.

Beany logo construction, building the B from a bean and a bunny
FIG. 02 · BUILDING THE B
Beany primary logo, bunny hugging a warm cup
FIG. 03 · PRIMARY LOGO
Wordmark

A bunny hugging a warm cup.

The primary lockup is a single quiet image. Eyes closed, both paws around a steaming cup, ears soft. It says the brand promise before a word is read.

It works in one colour, scales from a keychain to a storefront, and never loses the feeling of a held breath.

The World

a brand you can walk into.

Packaging

Coffee, bagged with personality.

The pouch range runs in the full pastel set, each one carrying a different pair of mood bunnies and the same warm promise on the front.

Nothing on the shelf reads like a commodity. Every pack feels like a small gift from a brand that likes you.

Beany coffee pouches in green and orange
FIG. 07 · POUCH RANGE
The Stickers

one sticker, every mood.

Beany mood sticker sheet
FIG. 11 · MOOD SHEET
Character System

Pick one. Express yours.

The bunny was never a single pose. It is a cast: sleepy, working, reading, dancing, sheltering from the rain with a friend. A mood for every cup and every customer.

The stickers turn packaging into a small act of self-expression, and turn customers into people who carry the brand around on purpose.

Touchpoints

the same voice, everywhere.

Run your race. Rest at Beany.
The Studio · On the Beany engagement, ’26

What we shipped.

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