Your event identity — one line, one ink

Everything you have been sent is one line in one ink. It is written down here so that anything added later — a card on a table, a note in a envelope, a sign at a gate — is drawn the same way and printed on the same pass.

The colours

One ink, and it is Pantone 2145 C or the nearest a printer stocks. There is no second ink anywhere in this suite, and no second production pass — no foil, no coating. The ink strength varies; the hue never does. Where something needs to sit back it is the same cobalt at a lighter tint, never a different colour, and total coverage stays under 22%.

Warm cream — the mounting card, warmer than white
#FBF6EA
Cobalt — the one ink. Pantone 2145 C
#2A5C9A
The same ink, pressed harder
#1D4778

The two typefaces

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Fraunces — the facts and the section titles — the serif that carries everything measured.
The venue
Fraunces — the same serif, smaller. The written hand is held back for the couple’s own lines.

The one mark

A specimen plate, drawn in Nell’s own hand. She is a botanical illustrator at a university herbarium and draws pressed specimens in a 0.35 technical pen — one uniform line, no shading, no colour, because the plates print in a single ink. That constraint is hers, not the studio’s; she asked for it unprompted. One drawing per piece, centred on the spine, sized to how far away the piece is read from. The suite opens with a single branch, widens to the whole table at the invitation, and narrows again until a place card is one name and one gesture.

Single-colour lithography across the suite, with letterpress permitted on the invitation alone, on 300gsm uncoated warm-cream mounting card. A hairline frame sits inside the trim and a centred vertical spine runs down it — the plate’s own ruling.

Your suite

Invitation card
Envelope liner
Save the date
Menu card
Order of service
Place card
Table number
Rsvp card
Welcome signage

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

#FBF6EA · #2A5C9A · #1D4778

Warm cream — the mounting card, warmer than white · Cobalt — the one ink. Pantone 2145 C · The same ink, pressed harder, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Fraunces 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.

6 rules, if you make something new
  1. One ink, one pass. No second colour, no foil, no coating.
  2. One uniform line. No hatching, no tonal shading, no fill inside a drawing.
  3. Ink strength may vary. The hue never does — lighter means a tint of the same cobalt.
  4. One drawing per piece, centred on the spine, sized to its reading distance.
  5. Never thicken or roughen a line to look hand-drawn. She reads stroke weight professionally.
  6. The written hand is for the couple’s own words only. Every fact is set in the serif.

These colours were read off your delivered pieces rather than from a locked palette file — if you want them confirmed against the press proof, ask the studio.