diff --git a/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph-base.ts b/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph-base.ts
index bbfcd852..27fd1733 100644
--- a/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph-base.ts
+++ b/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph-base.ts
@@ -1390,5 +1390,24 @@ export class GraphBase {
                 return "NGA (No Glyph Assigned Molecular Species)"
         }
     }
-
+    protected moleculeLabelName(name: string) {
+        switch (name) {
+            case "dsNA":
+                return "dna"
+            case "macromolecule":
+                return "prot"
+            case "NGA (No Glyph Assigned Molecular Species)":
+                return "nga"
+            case "small-molecule":
+                return "chem"
+            case "ssNA":
+                return "rna"
+            case "replacement-glyph":
+                return "All_types"
+            case "complex":
+                return "comp"
+            default:
+                return "Protein"
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph.service.ts b/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph.service.ts
index 93fb35e4..af62bce7 100644
--- a/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph.service.ts
+++ b/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/app/graph.service.ts
@@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@ export class GraphService extends GraphHelpers {
             let proteinInfo = new GlyphInfo({
                 partType: this.moleculeNameToType(name)
             })
+            proteinInfo.name = this.moleculeLabelName(name);
             this.addToInfoDict(proteinInfo)
 
             const molecularSpeciesGlyph = this.graph.insertVertex(this.graph.getDefaultParent(), null, proteinInfo.getFullURI(), x, y,