AVIL · افلEst. KSA · 2013

Brand Playbook · Case Study

The Notary

الموثق

AVIL is repositioned as the elite curator and benchmark of sweets in Buraydah, Al-Qassim. We do not simply sell confection - we certify it, we make it, and we host it.

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01Introduction
مقدمة

A house of sweets, re-drawn as an archive.

Since 2013, AVIL has grown inside the date country of Al-Qassim. The new strategy stops treating the brand as one more retailer and installs it as the region's standard-bearer: the Notary who records what is worth keeping.

Everything that carries the AVIL seal has been examined - sourced, made, or hosted under one discipline. This case study is the legal record of that taste: a system of marks, materials, and spaces precise enough to repeat and confident enough to be copied.

02The Mark
الشعار

Built on a grid, balanced by hand.

Logo 5 is the primary mark - a refined, flowing lock-up where the 'I' resolves into a single circular punctuation, the seal of the Notary. Every stroke sits on a measured grid so the mark reproduces identically at any scale, from a copper eyelet to a storefront.

Cap height
140 u
Stroke weight
3.2 u
Dot radius
5 u
Clear space
1× cap
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Primary
Reversed
Mono
03The Notary Model
نموذج الموثق

Three dots. One seal.

The whole brand reduces to a colour key. Every product, shelf, and sleeve declares which of the three roles it plays. The colour is the promise; nothing ships without one.

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We Certify

نُوثّق

Curated, vetted third-party and imported suppliers. The red dot marks a product we did not make but have judged worthy of the seal - tasted, ranked, and stood behind.

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02

We Make

نَصنع

AVIL's in-house premium artisanal production. The peach dot is our own hand - artisanal rawness, made in small batches and signed by the house.

In-house · Artisanal#ECA184
03

We Host

نَستضيف

Hosted local families and boutique partners. The blue dot is the table we set for others - a residency for makers we choose to platform under our roof.

Local · Boutique#1E88E5
04Palette & Material
الألوان والخامات

Warm earth, held in shadow.

The palette reads like sun-baked clay seen at dusk - terracotta and blossom tones anchored against charcoal, navy, and matte black. Reserved and low in vibrancy, so the three signal dots always speak loudest.

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Terracotta
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Salmon / Peach
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Orange Blossom
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Charcoal Grey
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Deep Navy
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Matte Black
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04.2Materiality
Raw concrete surface, the structural ground of the interior01 / Material

Raw concrete

Structural ground. The unfinished surface everything else is set against.

Red travertine stone, the material of the tiered counter02 / Material

Red travertine

The tiered counter. Veined, warm, ceremonial - where the seal is given.

Brushed copper and bronze, the warm hardware of the house03 / Material

Copper & bronze

Eyelets, machinery, fixings - the warm metal of the house.

Semi-translucent vellum
Belly-bands that mute third-party branding under the seal.
Hand-distressed paper
Torn edges; the archival, handled quality of a kept record.
Raw terracotta brick
Breeze-block screens; light and shadow as ornament.
Deep navy ceramic
A still, cool field set behind the warm product.
05Typography
الطباعة
Arabic / PrimaryVazir

افل

الموثق · معيار الحلويات في بريدة

Clean, high-end Arabic set in Vazir. Used for the name, headlines, and any voice addressed to the Kingdom.

Latin / TechnicalJetBrains Mono

AVIL

THE NOTARY · BENCHMARK OF SWEETS

Monospaced and archival. Captions, specimen labels, hex codes, and certification stamps - the ledger voice of the house.

ABCDEFGHIJKLM 0123456789 · & @ #أ ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
06The Buraydah Boutique
المعرض

An interior built like a reading room.

The space reads as a registry, not a shop. You enter through a terracotta screen into a cool concrete room where each sweet sits in its own cradle - certified, lit, and kept.

Sculpted stone boutique facade, reference for the AVIL storefront01
Storefront
Sculpted facade, clay screen filtering the Qassim light.
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Terracotta breeze-block screen, CELDOM-style inspiration for the facade02
CELDOM screen
Breeze-block inspiration.
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Red travertine stone, the material of the tiered counter03
Travertine counter
The tiered, ceremonial bench.
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Warm minimalist interior with terracotta and concrete, the hosting room04
The hosting room
Warm minimalism over raw concrete.
Deep navy handmade zellige tile, the bar and backdrop surface05
Navy tile bar
Deep ceramic backdrop and bar.
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07Packaging Concepts
التغليف

The product, sealed and recorded.

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We Host
افل
AVIL
Charcoal
We Make
افل
AVIL
Terracotta
We Certify
افل
AVIL
Matte Black
We Host
We Make
We Certify
Architectural Screen Sleeveb4fb4ba4

The premium category package. An outer sleeve cut as a breeze-block lattice; the product reads through the screen exactly as light reads through the facade. Hover to slide the vellum band away.

Dark, minimally plated dessert, the in-house artisanal standard
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Integration Mockup · vellum band & tagd50e43b2

A semi-translucent vellum belly-band mutes any third-party branding; over it, a hand-distressed terracotta tag with a copper eyelet records what the seal certifies.

Stacked chocolate-finished dates, a certified AVIL product
Vellum band · branding muted
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08Social Strategy
المحتوى

The feed is the ledger.

The grid speaks in the same archival voice as the packaging: notary numbers, certified seals, and short lines of brand philosophy set in warm terracotta and monospaced type.

№ 001
First on record
Stacked chocolate-finished dates, a certified AVIL productAVILCertified · imported
SEAL
الموثق
The Notary

معيار الحلويات

13
Years on record · since 2013
Dark, minimally plated dessert, the in-house artisanal standardAVILIn-house · artisanal

If it carries the seal, it has been judged.

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Source streams · one seal
Warm minimalist interior with terracotta and concrete, the hosting roomAVILHosted · Buraydah
@avil · الموثق