Hrncheck
A specialty coffee place obsessed with the perfect cup. Located in the old building of Bratislava's New Market — a modernist structure slowly coming back to life with new, young businesses — the brand is built on one idea: movement. The kind that carries joy with it.
There's a tension running through the whole project — old and new, Slovak and international, retro and contemporary. Hrnček means "cup" in Slovak. Check adds action — come, check coffee at Hrncheck. That overlap of something familiar and something dynamic set the direction for everything.
The café interior was designed with Parallel Studio, Bratislava. A large steel grid opens the space from two sides. Stainless steel walls, tubular benches echoing the building's aesthetic, and a massive custom-shaped table on stainless steel vitrines. The palette — a bold blue paired with orange — is shared between the interior and the identity. An unusual choice for a coffee place, reflecting the same tension between tradition and energy that defines the whole project.
The identity is typographic-led with a retro-futuristic character — something from the 60s filtered through contemporary coffee culture. The logo and custom lettering use negative contrast with weight in the upper parts of the strokes, creating a specific tension in balance. A custom icon of a cup mirrors the geometry of the typeface.
The typeface comes in two styles — one standard, one with jumping letters that invite play across all visual communication. The logo works as a ligature where the word "check" bounces as one unit, with motion lines forming a checkmark shape at the lift.
A set of typographic motion marks — checkons — are inspired by comic-style movement lines and integrated directly into the typeface. Each syllable behaves differently, giving the system rhythm and continuous movement. Linear illustrations extend the same motion-line language into supporting visuals — everything tied to one idea.
A joyful identity, easy to stick to. Quickly becoming one of Bratislava's most loved coffee stops, visited by baristas, coffee lovers and casual regulars alike.
Architecture — Parallel Studio