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Feragaia Brand Guidelines: The First Alcohol-Free Distillery in Scotland

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Brand Guidelines · Field Guide

Feragaia Brand Guidelines

The first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland.

FIG 1.0 — BOTANICAL-AND-SEAWEED DISCS (ABSTRACT HOMAGE)

FIG 1.1 — COASTAL SANS
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Two constants: a sea-teal palette and a coastal-sans register. Abstract homage — not a Feragaia product or mark.

Makes
Non-alc spirit
Since
2019Scotland
Made
Fife distillery
Owned
Independent, B-Corp
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The first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland

Feragaia is the Scottish alcohol-free distiller of a land-and-sea botanical spirit — a certified B Corporation.

Feragaia brings the round the genuine distiller who opened, not closed — the Scottish alcohol-free spirits house whose land-and-sea botanical spirit is made at its own distillery in Fife, which the brand describes as the first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland. Feragaia makes a non-alcoholic distilled spirit, and its answer to a round about the second pour is provenance and craft: a real Scottish distillery and a standalone botanical spirit built from land and sea. A brand, distilled.

Its identity is the first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland. Feragaia’s genuine distillation, its Scottish home and its B-Corp mission are the story here. A brand, Scottish. The first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland.

(Honest notes, so the story stays precise, and this is an alcohol alternative, framed as commentary. Feragaia, at feragaia.com, makes a zero-per-cent, zero-sugar, authentically distilled alcohol-free spirit, positioned as a standalone sipping spirit rather than a gin mimic, and built from twelve botanicals from land and sea, so we say twelve, not fourteen, including sugar kelp, the seaweed that the brand says gives it body, and we name sugar kelp and not bladderwrack. Its flagship is a single seventy-centilitre bottle, with no own-brand ready-to-drink cans, since its bundles pair the spirit with third-party mixers. It was founded in 2019 in Scotland by two founders the site names as Bill and Jamie, and we use the first names, since the surnames are not something we could independently confirm. On where it is made, a star theme of this round, the founders opened their own distillery in Fife in 2022, which they call the first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland, so current production is at their own Fife distillery. On ownership, it is independent, founder-led and a certified B Corporation, and we go no further than that, since the legal entity and cap table are not ours to assert. It is not whisky or Scotch, so we borrow none of that heritage. Its name and bottle are IP we describe but do not reproduce; there is no official brand hex; these tones are an unofficial interpretation.)

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Colour

Feragaia lives in a sea teal. Click a swatch to copy the hex.

Feragaia’s identity is Scottish, land-and-sea and minimal — a sea teal, an ink, a sea glass, a deep teal, and a paper. The palette leans sea teal and sea glass: a cool, coastal register that nods to sugar kelp and a Scottish shoreline rather than a loud palette. It signals a land-and-sea botanical spirit. The honest caveat: with no published brand hex, these values are an original, unofficial interpretation, not first-party colours.

The lesson is a sea teal signals a coastal, distilled identity. Feragaia’s world is a coastal, made object. For designers, it is a reminder that a sea teal and a soft sea glass can carry a drink brand — the tone of a land-and-sea spirit. Because these tones can fail as small text, keep type dark and let the colour live in the accents, palette and band. The takeaways: distil for real; root in a place; commit to a mission; and treat any single hex as unofficial.

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Sea teal
#2E8072
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Ink
#04140F
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Sea glass
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Deep teal
#0E3A32
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Paper
#E0F0EC
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Typography

The register is a coastal sans — Scottish, minimal, clean.

Feragaia’s identity carries a Scottish, minimal, clean spirit — a land-and-sea spirit, not a fashion. A coastal sans captures the mood: clean, minimal and confident, the register of a considered Scottish brand. Set in a sea-teal palette, the coastal sans feels Scottish and minimal — exactly the personality Feragaia carries. It is a provenance rather than a logo, mirroring a botanical and the sea. (Feragaia’s real bottle is a thing we describe but do not reproduce, and the exact typeface is not ours to use.) Because it is not ours to use, the honest description is “a coastal-sans spirit,” shown here in a stand-in. The type behaves like the brand: Scottish, minimal and clean.

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A coastal-sans spirit — Scottish and minimal. (Specimen set in Manrope, a coastal-sans STAND-IN; NOT the Feragaia logo.)

Coastal sans · the registerSea teal and sea glass · the paletteDistilled in Fife · the signature

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The second pour

Feragaia stands for the first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland.

Feragaia brings the round the genuine distiller who opened, not closed. A sea-teal palette, a coastal sans and a real distillery make one thing — the first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland — the whole identity: Scottish, land-and-sea and minimal. The genuine distillation is the substance, and the Scottish provenance is the meaning. The point is a standalone botanical spirit made at its own Fife distillery, from land and sea.

Put to work, the identity is a provenance and a craft told straight, as design. A maker in this spirit would distil for real, root in a place, and commit to a mission. A reader in this spirit would keep the facts right: Feragaia makes a zero-per-cent, authentically distilled alcohol-free spirit from twelve land-and-sea botanicals, including sugar kelp; it was founded in 2019 in Scotland by Bill and Jamie; it opened its own Fife distillery in 2022, which it calls the first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland; it is a single seventy-centilitre bottle, not a canned line; and it is independent, founder-led and a certified B Corp. Feragaia is the thriving half of the round’s genuine-distillers thread, set against Wilderton, the indie distiller who closed, and its B-Corp status sits with Caleño. The honest editorial moves are to say twelve botanicals not fourteen, to name sugar kelp not bladderwrack, to use the first names Bill and Jamie, and to say independent, founder-led B Corp and no more. The lesson Feragaia teaches is that a genuine distillery can be a whole identity, and honesty about the details keeps it credible.

For designers and brand-builders, Feragaia continues the second pour: distil for real — and root in a place. The lessons: build your own distillery and take pride in a first; make a standalone botanical, not a mimic; commit to a B-Corp mission; get the botanical count and the ingredients right; and never reproduce a bottle. It is also a reminder to stay precise: Feragaia is the Scottish alcohol-free distiller of a land-and-sea botanical spirit, a B-Corp — with the palette here an unofficial interpretation. Read that way, Feragaia is less a bottle than a distillery: a Scottish land-and-sea spirit. The lesson for a brand is that genuine making and honest provenance reinforce each other, and saying its own Fife distillery keeps the story earned. Feragaia made the-first-alcohol-free-distillery-in-Scotland the identity — proof that a distillery can define a brand.

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Explore & save

Keep Feragaia’s identity on hand — save it to a board in the Made Good inspiration library.

Feragaia identity set

Pin the sea-teal palette and the coastal-sans register to your own board.

Core Palette
Homage
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Coastal sans
The register
Coastal sans
Gradient

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Source & notes

Editorial reference. This article reports publicly documented facts about Feragaia’s visual identity as design commentary, not promotion (Feragaia is a non-alcoholic alcohol alternative); it is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Feragaia. The Feragaia name and bottle design are IP of their owner — the graphics here are original abstract homages (colour discs and botanical/seaweed texture swatches); no bottle or logo is reproduced, and all specimen text is set in a Google-Font stand-in. Facts reported from the maker’s site (feragaia.com): Feragaia makes a 0.0% ABV, zero-sugar, authentically distilled alcohol-free spirit — a standalone sipping spirit (NOT a gin mimic) from TWELVE land-and-sea botanicals (not 14), including sugar kelp (NOT bladderwrack); flagship is a single 70cl bottle (no own-brand RTD line — bundles use third-party mixers); founded 2019 in Scotland by two founders the site names as “Bill” and “Jamie” (surnames could not be independently confirmed and are not stated). It opened its own distillery in Fife in 2022, described as the first alcohol-free distillery in Scotland (current production). It is independent, founder-led and B Corp certified (the specific legal entity/ownership structure is not asserted beyond this). It is not whisky or Scotch. No official brand hex is used, so the tones here are an unofficial interpretation.