Product packaging has been receiving a gargantuan amount of attention lately. This is due to their role in increasing sales and customer attraction. However, it isn’t always that easy to attract customers. To obtain this feat there are certain factors that need to be kept in mind and implemented while creating a packaging design. This is the reason every business must know the customers that they wish to target and also what makes them interested in one product more than the others. One factor that matters to all customers of all choices is the consistency in packaging design. Knowing your brand, standards, and expressions will help you a great deal in designing the right packaging.
To know more about branding of your product packaging and how to keep it consistent, take a read at the passage below:
The greatest recognition tool for your products is the color scheme that your brand uses and the logo. When you think about Heineken, what immediately hits the mind is the bright green color that the brand uses for its bottles, labels, and packaging. This unison of color scheme between your packaging, products, labels, and brand is what makes your brand recognizable. When the customers find it easy to spot your brand among numerous others, the convenience and the time it saves the customers is welcomed wholeheartedly. To deliver the final blow make sure your website and social media accounts are also in the same spectrum as your branding’s color scheme.
Every big brand has its signature fonts, colors, logos, designs, or animated mascot, which is recognized immediately by the customers. Does your brand have one too? If not, then you will have to take one on to make sure your products use them to signal to customers from afar and draw them in. Take Pringles, for instance, the brand has successfully established a relation between the character on their packaging, aka Mr. Julio Pringles, and their chips. The character has been a part of Pringles’ branding ever since its birth and even if the character alone stood on the packaging without the product name, customers would still recognize it at first glance. Such is the power of consistency!
One thing that customers are impressed about is the way brands keep the branding on their websites and social media accounts in sync with the ones on their product packaging. This comes across as a professional trait and reassures the customers they received products from the same platform they ordered from. Your packaging and online presence must complement each other to create an uninterrupted harmony. It doesn’t, however, mean your website has to be as extravagant as your packaging, or vice versa. Including key elements, for example, pastel shades, minimalistic designs, and patterns, etc., that hint at the relation between the two is a great way of getting it done.
Branding can have effects beyond the expectations of a business. The key to branding your business is consistency and persistence. Packaging that just keeps changing can create an adverse impression of your business and appear unprofessional. The biggest brands have kept their logos, colors, and fonts, etc. unwavering throughout their journey that has helped them hit the heights of success.