How a distinctive brand helped Chosen Coffee stand out on the North Coast

The brief

Chosen Coffee started with a simple idea: serve exceptional coffee and homemade bakes in a way that felt relaxed, authentic, and unmistakably local.

Operating from a beautifully restored Citroën H van on East Strand in Portrush, the founders wanted a brand that reflected their personality just as much as their products. The identity needed to feel welcoming, premium, and rooted in the North Coast lifestyle without looking like every other independent coffee business.

The challenge

Independent coffee brands are everywhere.

The challenge was to create an identity that felt genuinely different while remaining timeless enough to grow alongside the business. Rather than relying on familiar coffee cup icons and predictable branding, the identity needed to capture a feeling: slow mornings, great coffee, homemade baking, and the coastline that inspired it all.

Every element had to work across the coffee van, takeaway cups, packaging, clothing, social media, and future locations.

The strategy

The brand was built around place and personality.

Instead of designing for trends, we focused on what made Chosen Coffee unique. The North Coast became the inspiration behind the colour palette, drawing from the soft tones of local sunsets, while the identity itself was designed to feel calm, handcrafted, and approachable.

Personal touches were woven throughout the brand, including subtle references to the founders’ lifestyle and their dog, Hudson, helping create an identity with genuine character rather than manufactured personality.

The identity

The final identity combines clean typography, handcrafted logo marks, and a calm, contemporary colour palette that feels equally at home on a coffee van as it does across packaging and digital platforms.

Alongside the primary logo, a collection of supporting brand marks and sub-brands were created to give the business flexibility across merchandise, social media, signage, and future marketing.

The complete identity was developed through our branding services, providing Chosen Coffee with a cohesive visual system designed to grow with the business.

The outcome

Chosen Coffee launched with a brand that feels instantly recognisable and authentically local.

The identity captures everything the business stands for, from great coffee and homemade baking to a relaxed North Coast lifestyle, while giving the founders a professional platform that can continue to evolve as the business grows.

The best brands don’t just identify a business.

They create a feeling people remember. That’s exactly what Chosen Coffee’s identity was designed to achieve.