The Power of the Dash: How KitKat Claimed the Space Between

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In the marketing world, we often try to scream the loudest to get noticed. But KitKat Canada just did something incredibly clever by doing the exact opposite. They did not add more noise.

Instead, they simply looked at the space between things and claimed it.

They took the (-) dash, we see a thousand times a day and replaced it with a KitKat bar.

Visual Minimalism

The execution was brilliant. On massive red billboards, they featured familiar pairs like 9-5, YYZ-JFK and Departure-Arrival. Right in the middle, where the hyphen should be, sat a single KitKat bar.

It was a subtle and almost silent prompt. It reminded that the transition between two tasks or two places is exactly where a break belongs.

They just used a bit of punctuation that has been hiding in plain sight for decades.

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