Brand Identity/

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Digital Wallet App for Everyday Budgeting and Savings

Branding I Logo

2025

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Design a friendly financial brand that makes budgeting feel approachable.

Design a friendly financial brand that makes budgeting feel approachable.

Customer

Fold Finance, a digital wallet app for everyday budgeting and savings.

Customer

Fold Finance wanted to stand apart from cold, corporate banking brands by making budgeting feel personal and encouraging rather than stressful. The existing identity felt generic and easy to overlook in a crowded fintech market.

The goal was a brand that felt warm and human without losing financial credibility.

Objective

Create a distinctive, approachable brand identity for a digital wallet built around everyday habits. The system needed to feel encouraging and trustworthy, helping users feel good about small financial wins rather than anxious.

Service

Logo

Brand Identity

Branding

Art Direction

Credits

Branding & Identity: In-house Studio Team

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Approch

The project began with research into how people actually feel about budgeting apps, revealing a strong desire for encouragement over judgment. That insight shaped a warmer visual language, a friendlier logomark, and a tone of voice built around small, achievable wins rather than financial pressure.

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Solution

A distinctive identity built on a friendly logomark, warm color palette, and encouraging tone of voice, applied consistently across the app, marketing site, and card design to feel personal rather than corporate.

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result

result

The refreshed identity helped Fold Finance stand out in app store listings and improved brand recall in user surveys. The system now extends easily into new features like savings goals and rewards.

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A Warmer Financial Brand

A Warmer Financial Brand

The new identity trades cold banking visuals for a warm, approachable palette and logomark, helping Fold Finance feel like a supportive companion rather than a traditional financial institution.

The new identity trades cold banking visuals for a warm, approachable palette and logomark, helping Fold Finance feel like a supportive companion rather than a traditional financial institution.

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Encouraging, Not Judgmental

Encouraging, Not Judgmental

Copy and visual cues throughout the app were redesigned to celebrate small savings milestones, reinforcing positive habits instead of highlighting shortfalls or missed goals.

Copy and visual cues throughout the app were redesigned to celebrate small savings milestones, reinforcing positive habits instead of highlighting shortfalls or missed goals.

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Consistent Across Touchpoints

Consistent Across Touchpoints

From the app icon to the physical card design, the identity carries through every touchpoint consistently, strengthening recognition as Fold Finance grows its user base.

From the app icon to the physical card design, the identity carries through every touchpoint consistently, strengthening recognition as Fold Finance grows its user base.

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