Everything you have been sent is built from a very small number of decisions. They are written down here so that anything you make yourselves — a sign on the loggia, a card on the grill table, a marker on the wall — still belongs to the same afternoon.
Five, and every one of them is flat. There are no gradients in this suite, no shadows and no airbrushing: if a thing is coloured, it is one colour, printed once. White is the tile and it is the ground of everything; the deep azulejo carries every word; blue, green and yellow are the panel, and they are laid down as areas, never as type.
The invitation is one panel prised off a tiled wall — the azulejo panels of Rio and Niterói, where a wall holds one small picture per square and only means anything whole. The mark carries no year. That is deliberate and it is the point: it has to survive being used again every four years, the way a 1970 wall chart is still on a wall in Niterói.
Flat screen-printed spot colour on rigid heavyweight board with a painted edge, and a lined envelope. Screen print lays each colour down thick and even, which is the whole reason the palette is flat — a printer offering to “lift” it with a gradient or a soft shadow has misunderstood the object.
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.
#FFFFFF · #2E63D6 · #14306B · #3E9E43 · #F5C400
Tile white — the panel itself · Azulejo blue · Deep azulejo — every word · Field green · Ouro yellow, in that order.
Hanken Grotesk and Fraunces 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.