Your event identity — cut, not drawn

Everything you have been sent is built from a very small number of decisions. They are written down here so that anything made for the night — a sign at the cage, a card on a bar — still belongs to the same room.

The colours

Black stock and opaque white ink. That is the palette, and the absence is the point: there is no metal anywhere in this suite, which for a casino night is the whole argument. The cold grey is a second register for the quieter line, never a third colour.

Midnight — the stock itself
#0C0D11
Opaque white — every word
#F7F5F1
Cold grey — the second register
#8A8F9C
Midnight, one shade up
#1C1E26
The deboss shadow
#17181D

The two typefaces

Midnight House — The Tenth
Bodoni Moda — the name of the night, and the one line that has to be read from across the lobby.
The Rivoli
Jost — the second register — times, the address, the standing supper. Set small, set wide, set once.

The one mark

A cut shape — the front of a dress shirt, blind-debossed into the black so it is felt before it is seen. Aldo Sorrentino ran a formal-hire shop on Girard Avenue for forty-one years and rented dinner jackets to three generations of this city. He is in this suite as a maker, not as a memorial — no dates, no portrait, no black band, and nothing that reads as remembrance. The shirt is his trade, standing in the room.

Opaque white screen ink standing proud of heavy black duplex at 600 gsm, with a blind deboss on the shirt shape only. Everything about this night is cut — the clothes, the cards, the deck — and the paper is cut too, not drawn.

Your suite

Envelope exterior184 × 133 mm
Envelope liner130 × 181 mm
Save the date148 × 105 mm
Menu card99 × 210 mm
Rsvp card127 × 89 mm
Place card90 × 55 mm
Table number105 × 148 mm
Bar drink menu99 × 210 mm
Event badge88 × 54 mm
Welcome signage594 × 841 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

#0C0D11 · #F7F5F1 · #8A8F9C · #1C1E26 · #17181D

Midnight — the stock itself · Opaque white — every word · Cold grey — the second register · Midnight, one shade up · The deboss shadow, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Bodoni Moda and Jost 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. Black stock, opaque white ink. The grey is a second register, never a third colour.
  2. No metal of any kind. That is the one absolute, and it is the argument the whole suite makes.
  3. The shape is cut, not drawn — hard edges, cropped by the trim, no outline and no shading.
  4. Two type registers and no body copy. If a paragraph is needed, the piece is wrong.
  5. The line “Every chip endows the Aldo Sorrentino Scholarship” travels with the invitation.

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.