Mantel Coffee: three baristas in uniform behind the espresso machine

Branding

Mantel Coffee

Services Identity · Art Direction · Packaging · Campaign

Client Mantel Coffee

Year 2026

Mantel Coffee: three baristas in uniform behind the espresso machine

Overview

Mantel Coffee is a slow coffee bar. A mantel is where we keep the things that matter, close and on display.

The coffee shop branding takes that idea to the bar: slow coffee, careful service, nothing rushed.

Mantel Coffee: the barista uniform, khaki shell and espresso apron, with a tray of cups

Challenge

Most coffee bars compete on speed. Mantel wanted the opposite: a place where every cup is made and served with care.

The brand had to say that before anyone read a word, through the people behind the bar, the machine and the cup.

Solution

A wide-tracked grotesque wordmark and a warm sepia palette of cream, khaki and espresso brown, stamped on paper, printed on cups and plated in steel on the machine.

The uniform, the packaging and a campaign that follows one shift behind the bar all speak in the same short lines: dressed for service, two cups, no rush.

Mantel Coffee: two cups served on a steel tray

Mantel Coffee: a barista pulling a shot by hand

Mantel Coffee: the one-group espresso machine on a plinth

Mantel Coffee: coffee packaging, the cold brew bottle with its label

Mantel Coffee: the steel bean box with its roast label

Mantel Coffee: whole beans in a clear bag with the house blend notes

Mantel Coffee: the opening weekend poster with stacked cups

Conclusion

Mantel reads as one calm voice across a uniform, a machine, a cup and a campaign.

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