Your event identity — the Hotel Mirada folio

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 at the gate, a card on the bar, a note on a towel — still belongs to the same afternoon.

The colours

Five, and no more. Sand cream is the ground of everything; terracotta is the loud one and is the only colour the crest is ever printed in. Aqua is the pool and is used as flat area, never as type. The brass yellow is the dessert cart — once per piece at most.

sun-umbrella terracotta
#E2725B
sand cream
#EFE6D6
pool aqua
#7EC8CD
brass-cart yellow
#F2C94C
Kodachrome brown-black
#2E2620

The two typefaces

The Caldwell Splash — Daphne's Annual Pool Party
Josefin Slab — the crest wordmark, the hours, the station names — anything that announces.
Villa Mirada
Raleway — directions, dish names, the small print. Anything that explains rather than announces.

The one mark

A sunburst, drawn as the crest of a hotel that does not exist. The whole suite reads as a guest folio for Hotel Mirada, a 1962 desert hotel invented out of your own villa. The crest sits centred and owns about three quarters of the card — it is never repeated, never tiled, and never shrunk into a corner as a logo. One per surface, large, or not at all.

Flat digital offset on rigid heavyweight board, corners rounded. Nothing here is laminated, foiled or embossed: the flatness is the 1962 reference, and a printer offering to “lift” it with a gloss or a texture has misunderstood the piece.

Your suite

Envelope exterior184 × 133 mm
Envelope liner127 × 178 mm
Menu102 × 229 mm
Bar menu102 × 229 mm
Welcome signage610 × 914 mm
Place card89 × 64 mm
Favor tags51 × 89 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

#E2725B · #EFE6D6 · #7EC8CD · #F2C94C · #2E2620

sun-umbrella terracotta · sand cream · pool aqua · brass-cart yellow · Kodachrome brown-black, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Josefin Slab and Raleway 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. Five colours, and no sixth. Not a paler terracotta, not a second blue.
  2. The crest appears once per piece, centred and large — never tiled, never as a corner logo.
  3. Aqua is a flat area, never type. Terracotta carries the crest; brass yellow appears once at most.
  4. Josefin Slab for anything that announces, Raleway for anything that explains. No script, ever.
  5. Say it like hotel signage, not like a party — Pool Deck, Cart Service 4PM, never a slogan.