Concept 05 · Place & season brand
Fieldnote
A Minnesota cannabis company.
MinnesotaSeasonalEditorial
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Fieldnote vs Counter
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Concept 08 · Flagship retail
Counter
Cannabis retail, caught up.
San FranciscoRetail chainPrivate label
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Compare cannabis concepts side by side.
Fieldnote
Counter
Positioning
A journal-like cannabis brand built around place, season, and hospitality. The cannabis brand a state park gift shop would carry. Paper bone, ink, sage accent — four seasonal rotations a year.
A private-label San Francisco dispensary chain using the modern flagship retail playbook: glass, light wood, iPads, no cash wrap.
Audience
Adult-use consumers who buy with intention. The kind of customer who reads field guides on vacation.
Premium San Francisco buyers who already shop Apple, Aesop, Mejuri, Sweetgreen, and expect cannabis retail to match the rest of their week.
Voice
Journal-like, place-specific, hospitality-focused. Documentary not decorative. Editorial serif headlines + clean sans body + monospace utility.
Quiet, premium, modernist, and product-led. Short retail-system copy, not lifestyle cannabis copy.
Style
Paper bone + warm-black ink + sage (cured-cannabis) accent. Four seasonal accent rotations per year (winter pine, spring bud, summer wheat, autumn ember).
Clean white surface, deep ink, electric coral accent, maple architecture, Manrope display type, product edition grammar.
Avoids
Green-on-black, two accents on one surface, generic startup voice, decorative branding
Legacy glass-case dispensary format, cash-wrap checkout, third-party shelf chaos, streetwear cannabis cues
Market
Minnesota, Multi-state US
California
Category
Flower, Pre-rolls, Edibles, Concentrates
Retail, Flower, Concentrates, Pre-rolls, Edibles
Model
Brand only, DTC
Dispensary, Retail chain, DTC
Aesthetic
Seasonal / journal, Editorial
Premium retail, Editorial
Palette
Wordmark
Fieldnote
fieldnote
Paper bone#F4EFE4
Ink warm-black#16201A
Sage (cured-cannabis)#7A8C5C
Autumn ember accent#D6BE7D
DisplaySpectral Light 300
A Minnesota cannabis company.
BodyInter 400
Three faces, never two accents on one surface. Sage on bone. Paper, ink, and one accent.
UtilityJetBrains Mono 500
BROOKLYN PARK, MN · CURED 28 DAYS
Counter
counter
Clean white#FAFAFA
Deep ink#1A1A1A
Electric coral#FF5A4D
Light maple#D4B896
DisplayManrope 700
Cannabis retail, caught up.
BodyInter 400
No cash wrap. No line. Floor staff with iPads.
EditionJetBrains Mono 400
Q2 2026 EDITION · FOUR FORMATS
Voice samples
Deliverables
Fieldnote
"Brooklyn Park, MN. Cured 28 days. Spectral light. Sage on bone."
"Three faces, never two accents on one surface."
Counter
"Cannabis retail, caught up."
"No cash wrap. No line."
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