Product brand · Food & drink

Lowtide Coffee

Instagram · Facebook · TikTok

A playful coastal feed for a coffee roaster, built on brew guides and a weekly series.

Sector
Food & drink
Based
Cornwall
Channels
Instagram · Facebook · TikTok

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The brief

Bright orange coffee pouch standing on a teal background with roasted coffee beans scattered around its base.
The brief

We roast coffee on the Cornish coast every Tuesday and post it the same day. We wanted a feed that sounds like us, playful and unfussy, and that helps people brew better coffee at home.

Sample client brief · Lowtide Coffee, Cornwall
01 · Challenge

The challenge

Coffee photography is everywhere. Lowtide needed bold colour it could own, and brew education people save and share, so the feed builds interest in subscriptions week by week.

02 · Approach

The approach

  1. Paired warm coffee photography with bold Sunrise orange and Deep Tide navy tiles.
  2. Wrote brew guides with exact recipes, such as 15 g of coffee to 250 g of water at 94°C.
  3. Designed Cupping Club, one template reused every Thursday so followers know it on sight.
  4. Planned a collab post with a local bakery so both brands reach each other's followers.
03 · Deliverables

What I delivered

  • Logo, tagline and colour palette
  • Tone-of-voice notes with lines to use and avoid
  • 9-post Instagram grid
  • Brew-fix Reel cover
  • Bakery collab post
  • 4-episode Cupping Club series
  • 5-slide grind-size carousel
  • Search-led caption and alt text
Identity

Brand identity board

Palette

Foam#F3EEE6
Sand#D9C2A0
Sea Glass#8FB8B0
Sunrise#F08A4B
Deep Tide#13314A

Typography

Bricolage Grotesque · headlines

Roasted every Tuesday on the Cornish coast and posted the same day, so it lands while it’s at its best.

Work Sans · body

Voice

PlayfulCoastalUnfussy
We say

“Roasted Tuesday. Gone by Friday.”

We don't say

“An artisanal coffee journey awaits.”

Instagram

The planned feed

lowtide.coffeeFollowMessage
Lowtide CoffeeFood & drink

Small-batch coffee, roasted on the Cornish coast every Tuesday.

lowtide.example
Photo: Bright orange coffee pouch standing on a teal background with roasted coffee beans scattered around its base.Sunrise Blend · 250 g
Fresh every weekRoasted Tuesday. In your cup by Friday.
Photo: Latte with leaf latte art in a white cup on a wooden table by a window overlooking a rocky coastline and the sea.Flat white, Saturday
Brew guideV60 in four steps
  1. 15 g coffee, medium-fine
  2. 250 g water at 94°C
  3. Bloom for 40 seconds
  4. Finish at about 3 minutes
Cupping ClubEp. 12Ethiopia, GujiEvery Thursday
Photo: Close-up of espresso pouring from a chrome portafilter in a rich caramel stream.NewEspresso, dialled in
Best decaf I’ve had. I didn’t believe it either.★★★★★Sample customer review
Reel cover. Photo: Pour-over coffee being brewed: a gooseneck kettle pouring into a ceramic dripper above a glass carafe, with the sea in the background.Guess the roast by the sound
SubscriptionsFresh coffee, on repeat.Pause, skip or swap any week.Start yours

Content pillars

  • ProductBeans, brews and the roastery, shot warm and close.
  • Brew educationRecipes, grind guides and quick fixes.
  • Community & seriesCupping Club, collabs and customer words.

Grid logic

Warm coffee photography sits between bold Sunrise and Deep Tide tiles, so the grid reads as one brand from a distance while each post still works on its own.

Sample caption · written for search

Our V60 recipe for Sunrise Blend: 15 g coffee, 250 g water at 94°C, a 40-second bloom, done in about three minutes. Save it for the weekend. #pourover #v60 #specialtycoffeeuk

Alt text

Orange Sunrise Blend coffee bag on a sea-green background with scattered roasted beans.

Grid previews at 3:4. Posts are designed at 1080×1350 with key content in the centre.

Trend-led creatives

Swipe the carousels sideways
Reels · 3-second hook

Brew-fix Reel cover

Reel cover. Photo: Close-up of espresso pouring from a chrome portafilter in a rich caramel stream.Your coffee tastes bitter for one reason.
lowtide.coffee(It’s usually the grind.) The fix is in the caption.♪ Original audio · Lowtide Coffee

A specific problem in the first frame stops the scroll; the answer keeps people watching.

9:16 · 1080×1920

Collab post

Collab with a local bakery

Photo: Latte with leaf latte art in a white cup on a wooden table by a window overlooking a rocky coastline and the sea.Saturdays onlyLowtide × Harbour BakeryCollabCardamom bun + Sunrise flat white

A collab post shows on both grids at once, so each brand reaches the other’s followers.

1080×1350 (4:5) · Instagram collab post

Repeatable series

Cupping Club · one template, every week

Cupping ClubEp. 12Ethiopia, GujiJasmine · peach · black tea
Cupping ClubEp. 13Colombia, HuilaRed apple · panela · cocoa
Cupping ClubEp. 14Brazil, CerradoHazelnut · milk chocolate
Cupping ClubEp. 15Kenya, NyeriBlackcurrant · grapefruit

The same layout every Thursday means followers recognise the post before they read it.

Weekly series · 1080×1350 (4:5) · matching Reel covers

Save-worthy carousel

"Grind size, explained" carousel

Photo: Bright orange coffee pouch standing on a teal background with roasted coffee beans scattered around its base.Brew schoolGrind size, explained in three slides
FineEspressoAbout as fine as table salt. Water passes through fast, so the grind does the work.Lowtide2 / 5
MediumPour-overLike coarse sand. Brews in around three minutes.Lowtide3 / 5
CoarseCafetièreLike sea salt. Four minutes of steeping, then press slowly.Lowtide4 / 5
Not sure? We’ll grind it for you.Choose your grindFree on every order

A plain answer to a common question gets saved and sent to friends.

5 slides · 1080×1350 (4:5)

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