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Moodly: The Woork turns a CBD wellness brand into four geometric moods

Madrid studio The Woork built the CBD and nootropics brand Moodly around four geometric moods, then carried the system from packaging to billboards, transit shelters and an app.

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Moodly sells CBD and nootropic wellness products under the line "Boost your mood." Masterbrand handled the brand's strategy and positioning, landing on "High Performance Nature Labs" as the core idea. Madrid studio The Woork built the visual identity around that idea: four simple geometric shapes, each standing in for a different emotional state, carried across packaging, out of home advertising, an app and social content.

Several Moodly product tins in different colors arranged at angles on a warm background
Moodly's tins scattered across a warm gradient background, showing the brand's core color range.

Four shapes for four moods

The Woork designed a symbol for each of Moodly's four emotional states: a cross shaped mark for Ready, three overlapping ellipses for Calm, a plain square for Good and a grid of circles for Beauty. Every shape is built from the same handful of primitives, so the four read as a family rather than four separate logos.

Four white geometric symbols on a black background, labeled Ready, Calm, Good and Beauty
The four Moodly mood marks, Ready, Calm, Good and Beauty, each built from a different simple geometric primitive.

The studio also drew a softer, more illustrative version of the same four ideas: a lotus for calm, a sliced drop for balance, stacked stones and a sun. These read closer to conventional wellness iconography than the brand's sharper primary marks, and show how far the shape system can flex without breaking.

Four black line icons on a cream background: a lotus flower, a sliced water drop, stacked stones and a sun
A softer, more illustrative reading of the same four moods, closer to conventional wellness iconography.

Strategy from Masterbrand, identity from The Woork

Masterbrand set Moodly's market position and its "High Performance Nature Labs" framing before The Woork started work on the visual system. That division of labor shows in how the identity reads: the words carry the science forward promise, while the shapes and color carry the emotional one. The Woork paired the identity with Labil Grotesk, a rounded sans with enough personality to soften the CBD and nootropics subject matter without losing legibility on small packaging.

Green specimen card showing the typeface Labil Grotesk with a large lowercase Aa
Labil Grotesk, the typeface The Woork paired with Moodly’s geometric mark.

Color coded packaging for each product line

Each Moodly product line gets its own sub palette, chosen from color psychology rather than a single fixed brand color. A Calm tin sits in sage green, other lines run through mustard, magenta and cream. The packaging keeps its shape and typography constant across lines, so color alone signals which mood a product targets.

Three cylindrical product tins in orange, pink and pale colors casting shadows on a grey background
Three Moodly tins in different colorways, one per product line, photographed together on grey.
Close-up macro photograph of a dark glass dropper bottle held near bare skin
A Moodly CBD oil dropper bottle, photographed close against skin.

The system stretches from billboards to phone screens

The Woork's brief covers more than packaging. The same shapes and palette turn up on out of home advertising, a building sized wall wrap, transit shelters, an app and social templates, all built to work at very different scales without redrawing the core assets.

Black and white billboard reading Face your challenges Naturally with four geometric shapes
A billboard reading "Face your challenges. Naturally," with Moodly’s four core symbols in black.
Corner of a brick building wrapped in orange, pink and magenta Moodly branding reading Beauty and Ready
A building wrap carrying the Ready and Beauty marks at full scale, with the line "How do you want to feel?"
Street level bus shelter displaying three different Moodly advertising posters side by side
A transit shelter carrying three Moodly ad executions side by side.
Black and white print advertisement showing a stylized illustration of a person walking downstairs, reading Reach the end of the day
A print ad reading "Reach the end of the day," paired with an illustrated figure descending a staircase.
Four mobile app screens showing onboarding, product and profile views in Moodly brand colors
Moodly's app interface, carrying the same shapes and palette as the packaging.
Three vertical social media post mockups in green, magenta and cream carrying Moodly branding
Social media templates built from the same visual system, ready to run as a set.

A campaign built around one question

Across every touchpoint, the identity keeps coming back to a single line: "How do you want to feel?" It's the kind of prompt that only works if the visual system can answer it fast. The four shape structure means it usually can; a viewer can read the mood from the mark alone before reading a word of copy.

Woman wearing sunglasses and an orange jacket photographed outdoors against a blue sky
A Moodly campaign lifestyle photograph, part of the brand's broader photographic style.

The Woork is a branding and graphic design studio based in Madrid. See more of the Moodly identity, and the rest of the studio's work, on The Woork's Behance profile.

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