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#phonetics

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// Naming Methodology

What 5,000 brand names sound like

Run 5,000 DTC names through a phonetic sieve and one average name falls out. It does not exist, and it would sit unnoticed on any shelf. Here is the read.

12 min · 2026.06.19
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// Naming Methodology

The naming science glossary

A plain-English glossary of the science that decides how a brand name lands, sound symbolism, processing fluency, optimal incongruity and the rest, each defined with the research behind it.

10 min · 2026.06.17
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// Naming Methodology

Sound symbolism in brand names, is it real and how to use it

Run a 60-second test on yourself, see why the effect has held for almost a century, then turn the two phonetic dials a founder actually controls.

12 min · 2026.06.15