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All Haar

All Haar this afternoon, clearing by evening.

DetailSpecification
SectorFashion & Jewellery
TerritoryScotland, UK
ScopeIdentity, brand book
IntroductionAbout

All Haar is a fashion label built from the atmosphere and language of Scotland’s North Sea coastline. The name comes from the haar — the dense sea fog that drifts onto the east coast — turning a familiar forecast term into an identity with a quiet, understated character that connects naturally to outerwear and weather-driven clothing.

The direction we set was cinematic, minimal and quietly confident. Weather works as both a visual language and a cultural reference point, balancing the functional demands of an apparel brand against editorial sophistication.

All Haar logo applied in situ on a black presentation folder held by a model
Logo in situ
PositioningLandscape

All Haar sits in luxury streetwear, between two established groups. On one side, Scottish sartorial houses like Kestin and Campbells of Beauly, grounded in craftsmanship and provenance. On the other, edgier labels — Chrome Hearts, Mastermind Tokyo, Enfants Riches Déprimés — trading on exclusivity and an anti-establishment stance.

The opening was the Scottish narrative, which almost nobody in that second group touches. A weather phenomenon specific to one coastline gives the brand an ironic elegance and a cultural reference competitors cannot borrow.

All Haar secondary logo reversed out of a black background
Logo in situ
IdentityWordmark and mark

The wordmark is set in a blackletter face, paired with a four-point mark drawn from the same tradition — a form that reads equally as a compass rose and a stylised cross. Blackletter carries the historical weight the Scottish narrative needed; the mark keeps it from tipping into pastiche and works at icon scale, on a garment label, and as a repeating pattern.

The All Haar mark shown positive and reversed side by side
Primary logo
All Haar brand mark shown in a real-world application
Secondary logo, reversed
All Haar primary logo: blackletter wordmark with four-point mark on a light background
The mark, positive and reversed
Logo positioning guidelines showing corner and centred placements on a grid
Positioning on the grid
ColourPalettes

The primary palette is monochrome by design: the identity had to survive on garment labels, swing tags and screens without relying on colour to carry it. The secondary palette does the atmospheric work — pale yellows and turquoises pulled from coastal light, used sparingly against the black.

Primary paletteHex
White#FFFFFF
Concrete#F2F2F2
Casual Black#191919
Secondary paletteHex
Creme Yellow#FEFB9B
Yellow#FEF958
Turquoise#74FAFD
Silky Turquoise#BAFDFE
Celeste Polvere#E3FEFF
TypographyGeist

Geist carries everything outside the wordmark, in Medium and Regular only. Its slightly technical, near-monospaced character sits deliberately against the blackletter. The hierarchy runs from a 150px display title down to 20px captions, with negative tracking held across every level above body copy.

TypefaceWeights
GeistMedium, Regular
Geist specimen showing Medium and Regular weights with full character set
Primary typeface
Graphic systemPattern

The mark breaks apart into a set of graphic elements — cropped, scaled to the edge of legibility, and repeated as pattern. This gives the brand something to say across packaging, garment linings and social content without repeating the logo.

All Haar graphic elements: the mark cropped, scaled and repeated as pattern
Graphic elements
ImageryDirection

Photography is monochrome, urban and shot in flat, overcast light — the conditions the haar actually produces. Subjects are styled in the brand’s own product and photographed at a distance that keeps the clothing, not the face, as the subject.

Black and white photography direction for All Haar showing urban streetwear styling
Visual style of photography