Puffy letters, dark ripe leaf

Why this counter looks cartoon

A sticker has to read from across a room and survive being scraped, so the letters swell, the contour thickens into one solid black line and the fills break into printed dots instead of gradients. The separation is kept short on purpose: off-white paper, one tomato red, one teal, black for the outline. The only drawn thing on the leaf is the face — ripe pu-erh nuggets already look like a cartoon of themselves, so one of them gets to wink back. Everything under the drawing is photographed rather than illustrated, and the tea itself is Chinese and single origin, without blends or added flavour.