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L'Oréal Paris packaging

Photography: HIRO — still-life photography. Images belong to their respective owners.

L'Oréal Paris

translucent amber shampoo under a gilded serif masthead

L'Oréal Paris places a narrow high-contrast wordmark with a small spaced 'PARIS' line at the top of packs that are mostly bold, glossy and colour-saturated. The Elvive/Elseve hair range is the clearest system: tall flip-top bottles, often translucent, each in one strong colour, with the sub-brand in big heavy high-contrast capitals, the line name in a lighter italic or script, a coloured format strip and an ingredient render or swirl emblem. Makeup changes register but keeps the wordmark: foundation sits in clear glass with a silver cap and a lowercase light name ('accord parfait'), and lipsticks use a polished gold bullet case. Colour codes the hair concern; the stack order never moves.

  • Skincare
  • Hair
  • Make-up
  • Light pack
  • Colour-coded range
  • Bold typographic

Color Palette

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

Pack body

  • Cap Silver

    #c9cbcd

    Bright metallised cap on foundation bottles and the band on compacts

  • Shade Nude

    #d9a789

    Foundation shade seen through the clear glass bottle; the pack colour of the makeup range

Ink

  • Paris Black

    #1c1a19

    Wordmark, masthead and fine copy on light and translucent packs

Accent

  • Masthead Gold

    #c49a4a

    Gold wordmark, rules and pump on the oil line, and the polished lipstick case

Range coding

  • Huile Amber

    #e7a31f

    Translucent golden bottle for the Extraordinary Oil line

  • Hidra Lilac

    #d8a3e6

    Translucent pink-lilac bottle for the hyaluronic hydration line

  • Hidra Violet

    #6b3fa0

    Format strip, line name and molecule render on the hydration line

  • Dream Long Coral

    #f27d48

    Opaque coral bottle for the long-hair line

  • Dream Pink

    #e8336e

    Flip cap, masthead and line script on the long-hair line

  • Clay Mint

    #a9dccf

    Pale mint body for the clay line

  • Vitamin Green

    #37b54a

    Cap and band on the multi-vitamin shampoo

Typography

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

Wordmark at the top in narrow high-contrast capitals with PARIS spaced below. The sub-brand (ELVIVE, ELSEVE) is the largest type, followed by the line name in a lighter italic, script or bracketed sans, then a coloured strip naming the format, then the emblem or ingredient render and a short benefit list. On makeup the light lowercase product name replaces the masthead and sits under a smaller wordmark.

Type scale

Estimated cap size as a share of the panel · Front of the 400 ml Elvive shampoo bottle, about 200 mm tall

  • masthead

    8% · Black · Headline

    VIVANCE

  • line-name

    4.5% · Regular · Script

    Silk Lengths

  • product-type

    3.5% · Bold · Body

    SHAMPOO

  • wordmark

    3% · Regular · Display

    MAISON

  • volume

    2.2% · Regular · Body

    400 ml

  • format-strip

    1.8% · Bold · Body

    FOR DRY HAIR

Fonts

  • Display

    Playfair Display

    Looks like
    Custom narrow high-contrast face, close to Didot Condensed
    Type
    Narrow high-contrast capitals with fine hairlines
    Weight
    Regular
    Case
    Uppercase
    Tracking
    Slightly open, about +3%
    Fallback
    Didot, Bodoni 72, Georgia

    The wordmark at the top of every pack, with PARIS set tiny and widely spaced beneath; black, gold or white depending on ground.

  • Headline

    Bodoni Moda

    Looks like
    Didot Bold, custom masthead
    Type
    Heavy high-contrast display capitals
    Weight
    Bold, Black
    Case
    Uppercase
    Tracking
    Tight, about -1%
    Fallback
    Bodoni 72 Bold, Georgia Bold

    Sub-brand masthead filling about 70% of the bottle width, under the wordmark.

  • Script

    Kaushan Script

    Looks like
    Brush script, Playfair Display Italic
    Type
    Casual brush script
    Weight
    Regular
    Case
    Title case
    Tracking
    Normal
    Fallback
    Brush Script MT, cursive

    Line names such as 'Dream lengths' in the line's accent colour under the masthead.

  • Body

    Roboto Condensed

    Looks like
    Helvetica Condensed, Roboto Condensed
    Type
    Condensed neutral sans
    Weight
    Regular, Bold
    Case
    Uppercase in strips, sentence case elsewhere
    Tracking
    Normal
    Fallback
    Arial Narrow, sans-serif

    Bracketed line names, format strip reversed out of a colour bar, product type, benefit lines, volume and back-label copy.

Structure & Proportions

Proportions

PurposeValuePreview
Print coverageAbout 60% of the front face on hair bottles
Masthead widthAbout 70% of bottle width
Wordmark positionTop of the front face, about 12% down from the shoulder
Emblem or renderAbout 25% of the front face, lower middle
Cap heightAbout 10% of total bottle height
Colours per packThree to four: body colour, black or gold ink, one accent for strip and cap—
DensityFull centred stack top to bottom with little empty space on hair; airy on makeup—

Shapes

ElementValuePreview
Shampoo bottleTall soft-shouldered oval bottle with flip cap
Format stripNarrow coloured bar with reversed capitals
FoundationSquare glass bottle with pump and metallised cap
LipstickGold cylinder bullet
Swirl emblemSquare tile crossed by a calligraphic line

Finishes

  • Translucent gloss PET

    Hair bottles · gloss

  • Gold metallic print

    Oil line and wordmarks on dark packs · metallic

  • Clear glass

    Foundation bottle · transparent

  • Polished metallised plastic

    Foundation caps and lipstick cases · metallic

Formats and materials

FormatsTall flip-top shampoo bottle, Conditioner bottle, Hair oil pump, Foundation pump bottle, Powder compact, Lipstick bullet, Hair spray can, Roll-on, Jar
MaterialsTranslucent PET, Opaque HDPE, Glass foundation bottle, Metallised plastic, Aluminium aerosol
ClosuresColoured flip caps sized to the body, gold pump on the oil, metallised silver overcaps on foundation, magnetic gold cap on lipsticks
DecorationIngredient render or swirl emblem, Coloured format strip, Metallic gold ink, Shrink sleeve, Embossed monogram on lipstick cap

Front Panel

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

Centred vertical stack printed or sleeved on the front: wordmark, masthead, line name, product type, format strip, emblem or render, benefits, volume.

ZoneContent
TopNarrow wordmark and spaced PARIS line
MiddleSub-brand masthead, line name in italic or script or brackets
Lower middleIngredient render or swirl emblem, product type
LowerBenefit line, coloured format strip with hair type, volume

Range System

Colour coding by body and cap within a fixed layout: each hair concern gets one saturated, often translucent bottle colour, and its accent repeats in the strip, script and emblem.

  • Extraordinary Oil = translucent amber + gold
  • Hydration = translucent lilac + violet strip
  • Dream Lengths = coral body + pink cap and script
  • Clay = pale mint
  • Multi-vitamin = white with green cap
  • Foundation = clear glass showing the shade + silver cap

Back of Pack & Shelf

A back label or sleeve in the same colours with multilingual text in small condensed sans: directions per language, the full ingredient list, safety notes, then recycling marks, PAO, batch and barcode at the base.

  • Directions in several languages
  • Full INCI ingredient list
  • Short line about the key ingredient
  • Recycling and sorting marks, PAO symbol
  • Manufacturer address, batch code and barcode

On shelf

In the hair aisle the range forms colour blocks by concern, each a column of the same tall bottle in one saturated, often glowing translucent hue, tied together by the black wordmark and identical stack.

Imagery

Glossy 3D renders of the key ingredient (oil droplets, molecules, flowers) and a calligraphic swirl suggesting a strand of hair; no lifestyle photography on pack. Makeup carries no imagery beyond the shade itself.

Guidelines

Do

  • Set the wordmark in narrow high-contrast Display capitals with a tiny spaced city line beneath.
  • Give each hair line one saturated bottle colour, translucent where possible.
  • Make the sub-brand Headline masthead the largest type, about 70% of bottle width.
  • Name the line in an accent-colour script or italic directly under the masthead.
  • Use a coloured strip with reversed condensed capitals to name the hair type.
  • Repeat the line's accent colour in cap, strip and render.
  • Keep the stack order identical across every line.

Don't

  • Don't use pastel or muted colours on hair care, except the deliberate pale mint clay line.
  • Don't set the wordmark in a geometric or rounded sans.
  • Don't use matte finishes on hair bottles; packs are glossy.
  • Don't leave the hair-care front empty; the stack runs from top to bottom.
  • Don't use more than one body colour per bottle.
  • Don't use lifestyle photography on pack.

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