Your event identity — the painted floor

Everything you have been sent was drawn with one pen. It is written down here so that anything you add on the night — a label on a bottle somebody brought, a note for a latecomer — still looks like it came from the same table.

The colours

One red on cream, and where the pen presses harder it goes deeper. Rafael’s grandmother’s kitchen in Régua had a painted floor — red and cream squares, done by hand so no two are the same size, the paint thin enough in places that the boards show through. That floor is the palette and it is also the pattern; there is no second colour.

Placemat cream — the sheet itself
#F7F1E4
Ballpoint brown — every word
#43302A
Régua red — the one ink
#6E2318
The same red, thin on the boards
#A63A2B
Where the paint wore through
#E3D2B6

The two typefaces

The October Tasting
Yellowtail — the grandmother’s hand — the wine names and the line at the top of a card.
The Bellamy Residence
EB Garamond — everything a guest actually reads: the order, the plates, the times.

The one mark

There is no crest and no monogram. The mark is the painted floor — and it is on the back of every piece that has a back, deliberately, because turning a card over and finding it is the moment the evening explains itself. The squares are uneven because they were painted by a person; making them regular would be undoing the only thing they say.

Risograph in one ink on uncoated natural stock, hand-addressed. No foil, no embossing, no finishing at all — the ink sits on the paper the way ballpoint sits on a paper placemat, which is what this is descended from.

Your suite

Envelope133 × 184 mm
Save the date127 × 178 mm
Menu card110 × 210 mm
Tasting flight card110 × 210 mm
Place card90 × 55 mm
Table number100 × 140 mm
Welcome signage420 × 594 mm
Bottle tag55 × 90 mm
Thank you card140 × 95 mm

Using it yourselves

This is your event's visual identity. If you make anything yourselves, use these exact colours and these two typefaces — the restraint is the design.

The colours, to copy

#F7F1E4 · #43302A · #6E2318 · #A63A2B · #E3D2B6

Placemat cream — the sheet itself · Ballpoint brown — every word · Régua red — the one ink · The same red, thin on the boards · Where the paint wore through, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Yellowtail and EB Garamond are both free and open-source, and both are on Google Fonts — search the name, install the family, or pick it straight from the font menu in Canva, Google Docs or Word. You do not need a licence and you do not need to ask us.

5 rules, if you make something new
  1. One red, on cream. No second colour, nothing metallic, nothing embossed.
  2. Drawn by a person, in one pen. Uneven squares, uneven lines — regular is wrong.
  3. The painted floor goes on the back of every piece that has a back.
  4. The six wines are poured in a fixed order and the card must make that order impossible to mistake.
  5. Say what a wine tastes like in Rafael’s words, not in wine words.

Your locked palette is the source of these, and the ones beyond it were read off your delivered pieces — if you want those confirmed against the press proof, ask the studio.