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Association Between Packaging Color Lightness and Retail Shelf Position for Triggering Sales

Association Between Packaging Color Lightness and Retail Shelf Position for Triggering Sales

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that colors and their attributes play a much larger role in consumer decision-making than thought throughout the past several decades. Now researchers are learning that lightness of color packaging combined with retail shelf positioning can influence consumers to make purchasing decisions. 

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Color Variables Relating to Brand Recognition

Color Variables Relating to Brand Recognition

Emotions are what connect people with brands. One of the most basic ways for a brand to communicate emotion is through color on its products and packaging. A major challenge for packaging designers is to select the right colors that reflect the emotional intensity of the product's values. Here's a look at how color variables contribute to brand recognition.

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How Packaging Helps Developing a Relationship Between the Brand and the End User

How Packaging Helps Developing a Relationship Between the Brand and the End User

How can a brand affect consumer behavior to the point of getting people to identify and interact with the brand? At the core of branding is a set of values and emotions that go with it. A brand that communicates its values and emotions through visual cues on packaging has an edge over competitors that don't pay attention to how visual details connect with consumers.

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How Colors and Emotions Relate to Brand Recognition and Metal Packaging

How Colors and Emotions Relate to Brand Recognition and Metal Packaging

Various visual elements converge to create brand recognition among consumers after a period of time. A consumer's introduction to a brand is often through a choice of color. It raises the question: how important is color to brand building? Here's a brief look at why color matters and how it can be emphasized with metal packaging.

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Food packaging design and consumer perception of the product quality, safety, healthiness, and preference: Effect of packaging color on consumers’ perception

Food packaging design and consumer perception of the product quality, safety, healthiness, and preference: Effect of packaging color on consumers’ perception

Consumer perception is everything when it comes to figuring out the best packaging design. Color plays a major role in capturing a shopper's attention, especially for food and beverages. Here's a deeper look at why color is so important in packaging design for a wide range of consumer products.

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Fancy Tins: How Colors Affect Emotions and Consequently Purchase Decisions

Fancy Tins: How Colors Affect Emotions and Consequently Purchase Decisions

One of the most striking qualities of fancy tins is how color is reflected by the shiny effects of tinplate and aluminum. Not only can colors on fancy tins display magnificent designs, they can also trigger wonderful memories of good times. Here are ways that color plays a significant role in attracting consumers to packaging, leading to purchasing decisions.

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Fancy Tins: Addressing Specific Communities Online Through Targeted Fancy Packaging

Fancy Tins: Addressing Specific Communities Online Through Targeted Fancy Packaging

Awareness of fancy tins can be built through an online community (OC) with the understanding that multiple kinds of value must shift over time to reflect different audiences and evolving technology. The combination of changes in social themes, marketing strategies, new platforms and investors shape how fancy tins may be effectively presented to the public. Many times big events such as theWorld Cup can be the basis of promoting fancy packaging, in conjunction with digital marketing. 

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Nostalgia - How Fancy Tins Trigger Memories

Nostalgia - How Fancy Tins Trigger Memories

Consumers tend to take packaging for granted in general, but often notice unique or artistic packaging during holidays and other special occasions. Fancy tins work well for these marketing scenarios, because people associate recognizable special designs with time markers, based on experiences and gifts they've given or received in the past. Here we describe how fancy tins are associated with personal experiences and nostalgia.

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Fancy Tins: 5 Dimensions of Product Emotions To Build On

Fancy Tins: 5 Dimensions of Product Emotions To Build On

Fancy tins can play a significant role in the packaging of luxury foods and cosmetics. In both industries emotional content must be part of the package. Designers of these elegant and sometimes elaborate metal containers need to consider consumer psychology research on how "product emotions" are fundamental in packaging design for connecting with target consumers.

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