Inside the Apothecary: 89 labels and where they came from

A wizard’s shop is only as convincing as its clutter. When we started The Last Light Apothecary, the goal was not a handful of pretty labels but a whole working stock, the sort of shelves that look like they have been filling up for a few hundred years.

So the sheet is built the way a real shop takes stock. There are potion labels, dozens of them, because no apothecary sells just one tonic. There are drawer plates for the wall of little wooden drawers, ROOTS, BARKS, DOWN, the plain things a shop actually keeps. There are signs and a nameplate for Morwenna Sage, who keeps the place and half-suspects who Bard really is. There are charts and curios and a specimen or two, the details that make a customer lean in. Eighty-nine designs in all, and every one earns its place on the shelf.

It suits a wizard’s shop, a witch’s cottage or a D&D scene equally, and like every sheet you cut the decals out yourself and place them on your own tiles and drawers. That last part, the placing, is where it becomes yours.