A bag tag is not designed to be liked. It is a long strip of coated thermal paper printed at check-in, looped through a handle, and read by a scanner above a moving belt. Ten digits carry the licence plate that indexes the bag to its Baggage Source Message; three-letter codes chain the legs; everything else is a caption above a value, ruled off hard.

There is no ink. A thermal head burns the coating black, and that image is unstable — heat, humidity, UV and skin oils walk it from full black through grey to a washed ghost. This system takes that as its palette: one burned black on neutral stock, two functional colours, and type sized by how far away it has to be legible.