Label 🏷
Copy & Meaning

A label/price tag — representing categorization, tagging, pricing, and the fundamental human need to classify and identify objects and concepts. Labels organize the physical and digital world — price tags in retail, classification tags in libraries, hashtags on social media, category labels in databases.

'Labeling' someone is often used critically, meaning to reduce a complex person to a simple category. Used for product pricing, retail and shopping content, content tagging and hashtag culture, organizational systems, the metaphor of categorization and its limits, gift tagging, and any context involving attaching identifying or classifying information to something.