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Kettle & Fire packaging

Kettle & Fire

farmhouse animal badges on black cartons

Kettle & Fire packs bone broth in matte aseptic cartons, the core range in black (#1b1a19) with a stacked soft heavy serif wordmark knocked out of a bright animal silhouette, a red (#d8323f) bull head for beef and a golden (#f0b22e) rooster for chicken, so the animal names the broth before the words do. Under the badge a small serif flavour line sits over BONE BROTH in a condensed slab in the badge colour, with a protein line beneath; a thin claims band across the top flanks a small flame icon with 'Organic' or 'No preservatives'. Soups, vegetable and specialty broths leave black for full-colour or photographic cartons (mustard soup boxes with a rust name panel, a pale green vegetable carton, a prairie or deer-landscape photo) but keep the same wordmark, flame and slab name.

  • Pantry & sauces
  • Dark pack
  • Heritage label
  • Bold typographic
  • Colour-coded range

Color Palette

Approximate colours interpreted from photography. These are screen references, not official brand colours or print specifications.

Pack body

  • Carton Black

    #1b1a19

    Ground of the core beef and chicken broth cartons and the tallow jar label

Label

  • Tallow Cream

    #f2ead8

    Wordmark knocked out of the animal badge and small secondary text on black

Ink

  • Broth Brown

    #3a2a22

    Wordmark and type on light cartons such as soup, vegetable and venison

Accent

  • Reduced Blue

    #2e86c8

    Reversed-out band naming 'Reduced sodium' above BONE BROTH

  • Kettle Rust

    #b64c24

    Rust-red vertical name panel holding the wordmark on soup cartons

Range coding

  • Bull Red

    #d8323f

    Bull-head silhouette and BONE BROTH name on beef broth and the tallow jar

  • Rooster Yolk

    #f0b22e

    Rooster-and-heart silhouette and BONE BROTH name on chicken broth

  • Soup Mustard

    #e7bc3f

    Full-colour carton ground of the chicken noodle and butternut squash soups

  • Garden Green

    #8fc77f

    Pale green carton of the low-sodium vegetable broth

  • Prairie Sky

    #a9c6d6

    Sky in the landscape photos on the bison and venison broth cartons

Typography

Suggested visual alternatives, not confirmed brand typefaces. Any scale below is an illustrative estimate.

The stacked wordmark is the biggest element, sitting inside or over the animal badge in the upper middle. BONE BROTH (or the soup name) is second in a condensed slab, with the flavour in small serif capitals above it and the protein line below. Claims flank the flame icon in a thin band at the very top, and net weight and certification marks sit at the base.

Type scale

Estimated cap size as a share of the panel · Front of the 16.9 oz broth carton, about 170 mm tall

  • wordmark

    9% · Black · Display

    Hearth

  • product-name

    6% · ExtraBold · Headline

    BONE BROTH

  • soup-name

    5% · Bold · Headline

    CHICKEN NOODLE

  • variant-band

    2.4% · SemiBold · Label

    REDUCED SODIUM

  • flavour-line

    2.2% · Bold · Body

    CLASSIC CHICKEN

  • top-claims

    1.8% · SemiBold · Label

    ORGANIC

Fonts

  • Display

    Fraunces

    Looks like
    Recoleta Bold, Cooper Std Black
    Type
    Soft heavy old-style serif with rounded terminals
    Weight
    Bold, Black with the soft axis up
    Case
    Title case, stacked on two lines
    Tracking
    Tight, about -1%
    Fallback
    Cooper Black, Georgia Bold, serif

    The wordmark only, stacked as two lines; cream on the coloured badge on black packs, dark brown on light packs.

  • Headline

    Rokkitt

    Looks like
    Rockwell Condensed Bold, Stymie Condensed
    Type
    Condensed slab serif
    Weight
    Bold, ExtraBold
    Case
    Uppercase
    Tracking
    Normal to slightly wide
    Fallback
    Rockwell, Courier Bold, serif

    'BONE BROTH', 'CHICKEN NOODLE', 'BEEF TALLOW' in the badge colour or reversed in white.

  • Body

    Libre Baskerville

    Looks like
    Century Schoolbook, Clarendon Text
    Type
    Transitional text serif
    Weight
    Regular, Bold
    Case
    Uppercase for flavour, sentence case for copy
    Tracking
    Wide in capitals, about +5%
    Fallback
    Century Schoolbook, Georgia, serif

    Flavour line above the name, protein per serving, sourcing line, net weight and back-panel copy.

  • Label

    Oswald

    Looks like
    Trade Gothic Bold Condensed
    Type
    Condensed bold sans
    Weight
    SemiBold
    Case
    Uppercase
    Tracking
    Slightly wide, about +3%
    Fallback
    Arial Narrow Bold, sans-serif

    Top-band callouts either side of the flame ('ORGANIC', 'NO PRESERVATIVES', '100% GRASS-FED') and the reduced-sodium band.

Structure & Proportions

Proportions

PurposeValuePreview
Black ground coverageAbout 70% of the core carton front is black
Animal badge sizeAbout 35% of front height, upper middle
Wordmark widthAbout 60% of carton front width, inside the badge
Product name widthAbout 80% of front width
Claims bandTop 8% of the front
Colours per core cartonThree: black, the animal colour, cream—
DensityOne dominant badge with a short stack beneath and little else—

Shapes

ElementValuePreview
CartonUpright rectangular aseptic brick
Animal badgeFlat silhouette of a bull head or a rooster with heart
Flame iconSmall three-tongue flame centred in the top band
Variant bandFull-width coloured strip above the product name
SpoutScrew spout on the 32 oz carton

Finishes

  • Matte board

    All cartons · matte

  • Uncoated paper label

    Tallow jar · uncoated

  • Clear glass

    Tallow jar body · transparent

Formats and materials

FormatsAseptic carton, Tall carton with screw spout, Glass jar, Multipack
MaterialsPaperboard carton, Glass, Metal lid
ClosuresPlastic screw spout on 32 oz cartons, flat folded tops on 16.9 oz cartons, black metal lid on the tallow jar
DecorationAnimal silhouette badge, Flame icon, Food photography on soups, Landscape photography on specialty broths, Vertical name panel

Front Panel

Schematic reading order. The diagram’s zone heights do not represent measured artwork proportions.

Front panel is a centred vertical stack: claims band with flame icon at the top, animal badge and wordmark in the upper middle, flavour and product name below, protein and weight at the base.

ZoneContent
Top bandTwo claims flanking a small flame icon
Upper middleColoured animal silhouette with the stacked wordmark inside
Lower middleFlavour line, condensed-slab product name, protein line
BaseNet weight, certification marks

Range System

Core broths share a black carton and change the animal silhouette and its colour; soups and specialty broths switch to a full colour or photographic carton while keeping the wordmark, flame and slab name.

  • Beef = red bull head on black
  • Chicken = golden rooster and heart on black
  • Reduced sodium = same badge + blue band above BONE BROTH
  • Venison = sky-and-meadow photo with a white deer silhouette
  • Chicken noodle soup = mustard carton + rust name panel + bowl photo
  • Vegetable = pale green carton with low-sodium band
  • Beef tallow = black label on a glass jar with the red bull

Back of Pack & Shelf

Side and back panels keep the front colour: a nutrition facts panel in black and white on one side, a short sourcing story in serif text, then ingredients, storage after opening, certification marks, barcode and recycling note.

  • US nutrition facts panel on a white box at the side
  • Short story about simmering bones for hours, in the serif body face
  • Ingredient list (bones, water, vegetables, herbs, salt)
  • Organic, gluten-free and keto marks at the base
  • Refrigerate-after-opening note, barcode and carton recycling mark

On shelf

A block of black cartons reads as a dark row punctuated by bright red and yellow animal heads, so beef and chicken are told apart from across the aisle by colour and silhouette alone.

Imagery

Flat single-colour animal silhouettes as the brand device; specialty packs add warm food photography (a bowl of soup, squash, herbs) or an open landscape with a white animal silhouette over it.

Guidelines

Do

  • Use a matte black (#1b1a19) carton for the core range and let one bright silhouette colour carry each flavour.
  • Knock the stacked soft heavy serif wordmark out of the animal silhouette in Tallow Cream (#f2ead8).
  • Set BONE BROTH or the soup name in a condensed slab at about 6% of carton height, in the badge colour.
  • Run a thin claims band across the top with a small flame icon in the middle.
  • Put the protein and net weight lines at the base in small serif type.
  • For soups, switch to a warm mustard carton with a rust vertical name panel and a bowl photo.
  • Mark sub-ranges such as reduced sodium with one full-width coloured band.

Don't

  • Don't use clean sans-serif for the wordmark or product name.
  • Don't drop the animal silhouette on the core broths.
  • Don't use pastel or neon colours on the core range; keep them warm and saturated.
  • Don't crowd the front with ingredient lists; claims stay in the top band.
  • Don't use glossy or metallic finishes.
  • Don't draw the animal with detail or outline; it is a flat silhouette.

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