Cannabis Branding. Brands for dispensaries, CBD and psychedelics businesses that people remember, and ask for by name.
5.0 client rating · Creative work since 2012 · Based in Denver
What does a cannabis branding agency do?
It shapes how people see, remember and talk about your business.
We start with the strategy: who you serve, what you stand for and the one idea that sets you apart. Then we design the logo, the identity, the packaging and the voice, and bring them together in a visual system, delivered as a web page your team can use every day.
Made for New dispensaries · CBD and hemp brands · Edibles and beverages · Growers and cultivators · Lounges and events · Psychedelics and wellness
Brands we have built.
A few of the identities we have designed, from CBD and edibles to a psychedelic research center.
Maplejuana 
Cannalebrity Boutique 
Cannabis Connect 
Barcelona Psychedelic Research Centre
What is included.
Brand strategy.
Your audience, your mission and values, and the idea that makes you different.
Logo and identity.
A logo, colors and typography that work on a sign, a jar and a phone screen.
Brand voice.
How your brand speaks, from the menu to the welcome at the counter.
Packaging.
Labels, pouches, jars and boxes designed to stand out on the shelf.
A visual system in HTML.
The whole brand on one web page, with every rule and every file, so it looks the same everywhere it appears.
Your brand in the world.
Merchandise, signage, social templates and the website, all speaking the same language.
Strategy before design.
A brand is a promise people can recognize. Before any sketch, we define who you serve, what they need from you and the one idea you want to own in their minds.
That work becomes personas, a positioning statement, a voice and a set of values your whole team can repeat. Every design decision afterwards answers to it.
It also saves time. When the strategy is clear, design reviews stop being a matter of taste and become a question of fit: does this say what we agreed?
- Audience and personas.
- Positioning and the idea you own.
- Voice, mission and values.
- A brief the whole team agrees on.
An identity that works everywhere.
A logo is the start, not the system. We design a primary logo, a compact mark and the rules around them: color, typography, imagery and the details that make a brand recognizable at a glance.
Everything is tested where it will live: a storefront sign, a jar lid, a social post and a phone screen.
Then everything goes into the visual system, the one place your team returns to whenever the brand needs a new piece.
- Primary logo, secondary logo and icon.
- Color palette and typography.
- Imagery and illustration style.
- A visual system with every rule.
A visual system, delivered as a website.
Every identity we design ships with its style guide built as a visual system in HTML: one web page that holds the whole brand, instead of a PDF lost in an inbox.
It has everything the brand needs to live in the world: the logo and its variations, color codes for screen and print, typography, icons, voice and tagline, imagery, textures and layouts. Colors copy with a click, and every file is ready to download.
Your team, your printer and your next designer open the same link and use the brand the right way from day one.
- Logo and its variations.
- Color codes for screen and print.
- Type, icons, voice and imagery.
- Every file ready to download.
Cannabis packaging that sells, and complies.
On a dispensary shelf, packaging has seconds to explain what a product is and why it is worth picking up. It also has to make room for the warnings and symbols your state requires.
We plan product lines as a system, so flavors, effects or strengths are easy to tell apart, and we prepare final files to your printer’s specifications.
Good packaging also helps the budtender. A clear hierarchy, readable strengths and a consistent layout let staff recommend the right product in seconds.
- Labels, pouches, jars, bottles and boxes.
- A system for a whole product line.
- Room for required warnings and symbols.
- Print-ready files for your printer.
Dispensary branding, from the door to the bag.
A dispensary brand lives far beyond the logo file. We carry it to signage, bags, merchandise, social templates and the website, so every touchpoint feels like the same store.
Each piece follows the style guide, so the brand looks like one company whether it hangs on a wall, sits on a counter or scrolls past on a phone. Most of our brand projects continue into the website, as they did for Maplejuana, Roll Up Life and United Green.
- Signage and in-store pieces.
- Bags, merchandise and apparel.
- Social media templates.
- The website, designed from the brand.
Psychedelics and wellness brands.
Psychedelics and wellness brands speak to people looking for care, research and trust. Their brands have to feel calm, credible and human.
For the Barcelona Psychedelic Centre we built an identity with the same quiet confidence on a storefront sign as on a coffee mug.
- A tone that builds trust.
- Identity for clinics, centers and brands.
- Materials for patients and partners.
- Websites that inform and reassure.
On a crowded shelf, the brand is what people choose.
Products can look alike. A clear brand gives people a reason to pick yours, to remember it and to ask for it by name next time.
“From our initial website to our new brand development the Studio 420 team has provided excellent step by step assistance to bring our visions to life.”
How we work together.
A free first call.
We listen to your story, your plans and the customers you want to reach.
Strategy.
Audience, positioning, voice and values, agreed before any design.
Design.
Logo, identity and packaging concepts, refined with you until they feel right.
Visual system and launch.
Your visual system in HTML and the final files for your team, your printers and your website.
What a complete cannabis brand kit includes.
- A brand strategy: audience, positioning and values.
- A primary logo, a secondary logo and an icon.
- A color palette with print and screen values.
- Typography for headlines and text.
- A voice guide with words to use and words to avoid.
- Direction for photography and illustration.
- Packaging templates ready for your printer.
- Social media templates.
- Signage and merchandise designs.
- A visual system in HTML that holds it all together.
Questions, answered.
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It depends on the scope: a logo, a full identity or a complete system with packaging. After a free discovery call, we send a written proposal with a clear scope.
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Yes. Studio 420 is a cannabis and psychedelics creative agency in Denver: branding, packaging, websites and marketing under one roof.
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Yes. We brand CBD and hemp companies from the first logo to the full product line, as we did for Cannalebrity Boutique and GW Family Farms.
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Yes. We design labels, pouches, jars and boxes, and plan whole product lines so flavors, effects or strengths are easy to tell apart.
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Yes. We can keep what your customers already recognize and modernize the rest, or build a new identity from the ground up.
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Yes. Studio 420 is a cannabis and psychedelics creative agency, and our work includes the brand of the Barcelona Psychedelic Centre.
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Yes. Most of our brand projects continue into the website, as they did for Maplejuana, Roll Up Life and United Green.
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We design the packaging and prepare print-ready files to your printer’s specifications, so production starts without surprises.
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Your logo in every format you need, the full identity and a visual system in HTML: one web page with every rule and every file, ready for your team, your printers and your website.