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Typeface appropriateness and its impact on wine purchase intent and brand credibility
Ottaway, Luther
Ottaway, Luther
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2020-05-01
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Ottaway, L. 2020. Typeface appropriateness and its impact on wine purchase intent and brand credibility -- In Proceedings: 16th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, p.54
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Wine is big business in the United States—with over $68 billion in 2018 retail sales (Wine
Institute, 2019). The U.S. boasts over 10,000 wineries, which when combined with significant
imports from across the globe, create a multitude of choices for consumers. Further complicating
the purchase decision is the consumption occasion, which is the question of where and with whom
wine is intended to be enjoyed. The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of
consumers’ interaction with typeface on wine labels and how that interaction impacts: (1) purchase
intent in wine consumption scenarios of varying perceived risk and (2) perceptions of brand
credibility. Sixteen typefaces were pretested by 106 respondents recruited through Amazon
Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”), who determined Monotype Corsiva typeface was the most
appropriate typeface for use on a cabernet sauvignon wine label and Impact typeface was the least
appropriate. Main experiment participants (N = 154)—again recruited through MTurk—were
randomly presented with one of four wine consumption occasions (home, gift, family dinner, and
business dinner) and asked to select a wine bottle for purchase. The choice was between two
digitally presented wine bottles—each utilizing the same fictitious brand name displayed in the
typefaces selected in the pretest. Participants were also asked questions surrounding risk
perceptions relative to the act of purchasing wine as well as brand credibility perceptions of the
wine bottle selected in the choice experiment. Respondents selected the wine with the label
displaying the most appropriate typeface—regardless of wine consumption occasion. The study’s
results, however, failed to support a strong relationship between brand credibility and purchase
intent. From a managerial perspective, this study’s results suggest wine companies would benefit
from: (1) testing label typefaces with consumers to assess appropriateness (an apparent proxy for
likeability and purchase intent) and (2) utilizing typefaces ranking high from such tests on wine
labels.
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Presented to the 16th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held online, Wichita State University, May 1, 2020.
Research completed in the Elliot School of Communication and Department of Political Science, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Research completed in the Elliot School of Communication and Department of Political Science, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Wichita State University
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GRASP
v. 16
v. 16