DESENHE logo in white on an orange background

Desenhe

Services

Visual identity
Brand manual
Web design

Industry

Art school

Location

Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Year

©2026

A school of tradition that never grew old.

Brand manual and website for Desenhe, a drawing and painting school in Curitiba, Brazil, teaching art since 1988. The identity starts from the word itself: a condensed logo with rounded terminals, a family of oranges, a typewriter face for headlines and a version for every moment, from the stamp seal to the freehand signature.

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Concept

More than a set of visual rules, the manual documents Desenhe's choices: who it is, what it believes in, who it talks to and how. The idea is that, on a card, a certificate, Instagram or the school's front door, people feel it is always the same Desenhe speaking.

Logotype

The logo is, above all, a word: DESENHE. The skeleton is condensed and functional, and the rounded terminals make it human and contemporary, a translation of a school of tradition that never grew old. There is no separate symbol: the typography itself carries the personality.

DESENHE logo in black, with condensed letters and rounded terminals, on a cream background
Logotype
Three versions of the logo: white on orange, cream on charcoal and orange on cream
Color versions
Versions

Besides the primary logo, the brand has a version for every moment: the box logo, with the most impact, for products and social media; the DSN monogram, for the smallest spaces; the seal and the tagline lockup, which carry the memory of 1988; and a freehand signature, loose and human.

Box logo: the name DESENHE knocked out in cream inside a charcoal band with rounded corners, on orange
Box logo
DSN monogram in white on a charcoal background
Monogram
The word desenhe written freehand in black on orange, with the edges cutting the letters
Freehand signature
Colors

The palette is born from the gesture of painting. Orange is the heart of the brand, the color of energy, warmth and fresh paint, running from the lightest tone to the warmest and the terracotta. Around it, the neutrals give base and balance: beige brings the memory of paper and the studio, coffee ties the palette to wood and the matter of making by hand.

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  • Coffee#552A15
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Typography

Two families accompany the logo: Courier Prime, a typewriter face, for headlines and highlights, and Manrope, clean and legible, for text and interfaces. The logo letters are custom, drawn only for it, and must always come from the original file, never be retyped.

Specimens of the Courier Prime and Manrope typefaces, with the alphabet, next to the DESENHE logo
Typography
Applications

The identity reaches paper. The business card carries an illustrated brush and pencil on orange, with the contact and a QR code on the back, and the course completion certificate, in cream, has a watercolor on top and the school's stamp.

Front and back of the business card, orange and gray-green, next to the cream course completion certificate, on a brown background
Business card and certificate
Website

The website takes the identity to digital: the typewriter in headlines, orange in buttons and highlights and a dark base that keeps the school's photos in the foreground. From courses to the space, from testimonials to the footer, where each visitor can leave a drawing.

Home page of desenhe.com.br on a MacBook, on an orange background
Home page
Three white iPhones on a cream background showing the site: the home page, the course list and the space section
Mobile version
Two overlapping browser windows on a terracotta background: the featured course list and the enrollment call with the drawing footer
Sections
Credits
Design and website
Nícolas de Queiróz
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