Your event identity — one red marker

Everything you have been sent was drawn with one pen. It is written down here so that anything you add on the night — a card for somebody who turned up, a label on a jar — still looks like it came from the same hand.

The colours

One ink. Risograph, so the red sits ON the paper rather than in it, and where it is pressed harder it goes deeper — that variation is the process being honest, not a fault. The cream is the butcher paper the tables are covered with. There is no second colour, and there is nothing metallic.

Butcher-paper cream — the sheet
#FAF2E3
Marker red — the one ink
#D82400
Marker red, pressed harder
#9C3221
Cooked brown — the reading colour
#3E2A20
Paper shadow
#D9C9B6

The two typefaces

The Eighth Friendsgiving
Chewy — the loud line — the one that has to read from the top of the stairs.
Apartment 5B
Caveat — everything else, in the same hand the invitation is written in.

The one mark

There is no crest and no monogram. The drawing is the mark — and every object in it is something that will actually be in the room: the turkey on the oval platter, the bottle somebody always turns up with a ribbon on, the serving spoons, the good glasses, the squash. Nothing on these pieces is a generic autumn graphic, and nothing should be added that is not genuinely going to be on the table.

Risograph in one ink on uncoated natural stock. No foil, no embossing, no finishing of any kind. It is meant to look like a felt-tip drawing photocopied twenty-two times, and it costs accordingly — that is the point rather than a compromise.

Your suite

Envelope
Save the date
Menu card
Place card
Table marker
Welcome signage
Bring a dish card
Leftovers tag
Thank you card

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

#FAF2E3 · #D82400 · #9C3221 · #3E2A20 · #D9C9B6

Butcher-paper cream — the sheet · Marker red — the one ink · Marker red, pressed harder · Cooked brown — the reading colour · Paper shadow, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Chewy and Caveat 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 ink on warm paper. Nothing shines.
  2. Draw it, do not set it. Loose, fast, a bit wobbly — if it looks designed it is wrong.
  3. Every object has to be a real object from that room, and actually on the table that night.
  4. The date is written 27.11. Do not spell it out formally — it is a Friday afternoon, not a ceremony.
  5. Leave a real gap on the invitation. Junie writes a line by hand on every one.

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.