labels Critique my labels as well please?

Gemini Crow Sauce Company

Gemini Crow Sauce Company

Would love some 'expert' opinions on my new set of labels as well, if you please. I know the glaring missing component is a bar code right not. At this stage, I am concentrating on mail order and or farmers markets / live events. When I gain some traction, future labels will have bar codes... Also, my original labels had (what i thought) were witty little paragraphs telling you what the sauce is good on....I changed my opinion on all that....Hot sauce people are smart. they know what it goes on...lol
 

 

 


 
 
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I like originals. Why don't you reverse the blue-grey and go for a subtle castle stone or very soft stone, brick effect. I think, the color of the sauces is important. For example, the Blue above would be effective with an Orange or yellow and even cherry color. I like the old newspaper, papyrus look you had going on. The font is the only thing. But, your logo is very important, too.
 
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I wanted to see them both together, lets see if this works-
 

 


I like the parchment look of the first one.  Devil's Due looks more like storm clouds? Maybe it's just my screen?
 
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I third the preference for the parchment look. 
 
Blue is not a great color for food products. If you check the grocery aisles you'll see very few blue labels. 
 
But even with that aside, I just think the parchment look makes more sense aesthetically and it fits your overall theme much better. I also think the colors pop better against it, and on the flip side as mentioned on FB, the darker background makes it really hard to read the romance panel & other information when it's all the same color. 
 
My $.02

As an aside, I've done 2 apple-based sauces, and 1 pear-based sauce. I wouldn't have thought to have done pears & apples together - is there a single dominant fruit undertone/flavor that emerges from that or just a subtle sweetness from both? Just curious...seems like the apple would dominate but I've never combined them. ;)
 
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Think of the color of the sauce and how #1 will pop. The blackberry color of the sauce creating bars above and below that, and your purpleish font Blackberry Belle pulling it all together. In dusty perrywinkle, fail. Plus, that's a weird mix. Bright Halloween orange, dusty perrywinkle. Board game, energy drink...  not this particular hot sauce. Imagine the color of the sauces behind the label, and I think you'll know.
 
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I'm gonna go with the original color scheme for now.
I should have waited to post the new possibility until it was better thought out, but i get excited about something and wanna share it asap. the idea was to go a little more dark blue...practically black, but not....with more crow silhouttes in the background, but we weren't there just yet.
 
i do love the original though and will make it work....as for the logo colors, we did our best to match them to the color of the sauce....
 
i do love how the orange pops off the blue though, but i can see how that may not be a fit for the actual sauce label....save that for the t-shirt line! hahaha
 
thanks for the input. i appreciatez youz peoplez!!
 
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Cool.

Not to throw a wrench into the works but I picture these doing really well as flasks. It just fits the whole olde world, crow thing.

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The Hot Pepper said:
Cool.

Not to throw a wrench into the works but I picture these doing really well as flasks. It just fits the whole olde world, crow thing.

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Haha. You guys are gonna kill me!
I have all these grand illusions of going against the grain of the typical 5oz woozy bottle, but 3 of my sauces already follow that route, and the OCD in me won't allow me to use a different type of bottle for the blackberry belle sauce.......gimme time gimme time....lot of issues to work out here!!!
 
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How the heck do you do that stuff, Boss????  
 
 
Sorry, GeminiCrow, but I gotta agree with THP....the flask bottles would be Really Cool!
 
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ok, ok..let me geta kickstarter going, and ill expect you two to head the list ;)
 
who is gonna pay my pshycolgist bills when my OCD has my turning on and off the light switch 20x an hour, cause my bottles are all different shapes? huh???
 
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:lol:
 
Try working on labels with words like Methow..."METH-ow" (or is it MET-how?) and "Twisp"  ... :crazy: 
 
I sometimes get to where I'm questioning if shugar is spelled right....let alone chilpoltee or kap-say-sin  :lol:
 
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Lucky Dog Hot Sauce said:
As long as you don't spell it "smokey chipotle" up you should be ok.
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:rolleyes:    yea...What-EVER about THAT!!!  :rolleyes:
 
You know... I'm going to have to do that on a charity sauce or something on FB "just because">  I wonder how that would fly...":Charity SmokEy Chipotle Sauce"  :lol:
 
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;) that's what I'd be counting on.....wonder how that would play out?  Ah nevermind~ 
 
Anyway, I can relate to working on a label until you can't even be sure if shure is spelled right! 
 
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OK, I'm done!!!  Sauce making is easy! Label making is the death of me! I trust you kind folks!
I have also attached my business card ;)
As for Blackberry Belle, I think I am gonna bottle it in these mini 5oz tequilia bottles I found, and do a silver wax seal which i think will look amazing against the burgundy color of the sauce.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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