Elevating the padel experience. ASCARO brings together premium courts, apparel and design into one unified system.

Year

2021

Program

Custom ↗

Scope

Strategy
Visual Identity
Type Design

Credits

Info

ASCARO‍ represents an elevated padel experience, uniting high-end downtown courts with a dedicated clothing and accessories brand. Founded in Stockholm with its first facility on the rooftop of Sweden's most prominent department store, Nordiska Kompaniet, ASCARO has since expanded across three continents. With a vision to create the world's most spectacular padel facilities, the brand brings a distinctly Scandinavian perspective to a growing global sport.

To support this ambition, the visual identity balances a premium expression with a highly adaptable system. Drawing inspiration from the padel ball, the four players, the geometric structure of the court, and the unique rules that define the game, it creates a distinctive and flexible visual language.

At its heart lies a custom typeface, ASCARO Sans, drawn from the court's own proportion, the double square, distinct from tennis and unique to padel. Uppercase only, flat and precise like court signage, the alphabet carries the same engineered clarity as match numbering. One letter breaks rank: the A, its leg kicking outward at an angle that traces the ball's bounce off the glass, the single move that defines the sport. Built from this typeface, the logotype and the wider typographic expression form the foundation of the identity, set against a black-on-black palette.