Case Study · Jewellery Brand Identity

Auric.

A thirty-year jewellery house steps into a new chapter — sterling silver, a younger audience, and an identity that holds the family's gemstone heritage with quiet, modern restraint.

Gold ring resting in an open hand cradled by warm sand — Auric Jewels campaign image
Client Auric Jewels, Udaipur
Sector Fine & Sterling Silver Jewellery
Scope Identity, Stationery, Packaging, Brand Manual
Year 2022 · Issue 01
The Brief

Auric had spent three decades earning its reputation in gems and gold. The new sterling silver line needed an identity that felt like a fresh chapter without abandoning the family name — something modern, classic, timeless.

We built the system around a single image — a delicate red diamond ring nested into the wordmark — and balanced it with an unhurried editorial typeface and a palette borrowed from sand, eggshell, and rose-gold dust. The result is a brand that looks at home in a glass display case and a phone screen alike.

The Approach

Generational jewellery houses don't need a rebrand — they need a translation. Our job at Auric was to carry three decades of trust into a sterling silver chapter.

Discovery sat with the family for weeks — old visiting cards, the original showroom signage, the way regulars still pronounced the name. Strategy then drew a clear line between the legacy gold business and the new silver line, so each could speak to its buyer without diluting the other. Creative work narrowed to a single editorial gesture — a fine ring resting inside the wordmark — proven across a brand manual, cards, packaging and the website before anything went to print.

Model wearing a stack of fine gold and emerald earrings — Auric Jewels editorial

Editorial · Stacked stud campaign · Auric Jewels SS22

Colour System

Eggshell & rose dust.

A two-tone primary palette — warm cream and a powdered silver-pink — gives the brand its quiet, unmistakable surface. Used at scale across boxes, business cards and the website backdrop.

Eggshell
HEX · #F0E8DC
CMYK 7 · 9 · 15 · 0
RGB 240 · 232 · 220
Silver Pink
HEX · #D5BDB0
CMYK 0 · 11 · 14 · 20
RGB 223 · 198 · 176
Bone
HEX · #DAD2C7
Secondary · supports primary palette
Ink
HEX · #0A0A0A
Used for the wordmark and editorial type
What We Shipped

Issue 01 of Auric covered the full surface area — a system the family could hand to a printer, a photographer or a developer without a brief.

The work covered the core identity and ring-in-wordmark lock-up, a typographic system in Playfair and Source Sans, a calibrated palette of eggshell, silver pink and bone — and a stationery suite for a house where letters and visiting cards still matter. Packaging spanned ring boxes, sleeves and presentation pouches. All of it codified inside a brand manual that reads like an editorial, not a deck.

Typography

Playfair, kept light.

Display
Playfair Display · Bold Auric
Editorial
Playfair Display · Regular Auric Jewels
Body & UI
Source Sans Pro · Regular Crafted in Udaipur, since 1992.
Stacked fine gold and diamond rings on a hand against a soft white blouse
Sculptural gold and diamond band on a hand against a white shirt

"Our logo is the key building block of our identity — the symbol and the name share a fixed relationship that should never be changed in any way."

— From the Auric Brand Manual, Issue 01

The Outcome

Auric now feels like two confident houses under one name — the legacy gold work and the new silver chapter — held together by a single quiet system.

The brand can now speak to a younger buyer without losing the loyal one — a college client picking up a sterling stack and a wedding client ordering a heirloom set sit on the same site, the same packaging and the same instagram grid without one undercutting the other. The new identity gives Auric a way to step into pop-ups, retail partnerships and editorial features without rebuilding for each new room.

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