Your event identity — one ornament off the glass

Everything you have been sent comes off one box of glass. It is written down here so that anything Evorrah adds later — a card on a table, a tag on a gift, a note to somebody who could not come — still belongs to the same evening.

The colours

Pink leads. It is not an accent and it is not blush — Nonie thought a Christmas that was only red and green was a Christmas that had not been thought about. The paper stays ivory and the colour goes on top of it, never behind it. Spruce carries every word; there is no black anywhere in this world. And the brass is a painted colour, a warm ochre — the moment it comes out shiny it is wrong.

Warm ivory — the paper, with a real tooth to it

#FAF5EA

Spruce — every word. This world has no black

#2E4A26

Bubblegum — the 1964 ornament’s pink, and it leads

#E45C8C

Leaf — a spring-leaf green, never a fir green

#5F8F3E

Crimson — used less than the other two

#CE3B44

Painted brass — the ornament caps, a matte pigment

#C09553

The two typefaces

Christmas Eve at Thirty-Two Legare

Fraunces — the names and the numbers — anything that behaves like a title on a card.

The Pomeroy House, 32 Legare Street

Hanken Grotesk — everything a guest reads, set large enough to be read across a table without glasses.

The one mark

One ornament off the glass, laid flat on ivory paper. They are Nonie’s — sixty-seven hand-painted blown-glass ornaments, one bought every year since 1959, each with its year written on the brass cap in pencil. She left the box with a note that said only keep buying them. The suite empties as the evening does, exactly as the box does: the early pieces carry the whole cascading cluster, the late ones carry a single object, and the place card carries the smallest. Every guest leaves with one, and it never comes back.

Cotton rag with a real tooth, digital offset, and one brushed stripe of pink painted along the card edge. The paint on the real ornaments pools slightly at the bottom of each stripe, and that looseness is the reference. Nothing is foiled, nothing is metallic, nothing glitters.

Your suite

Save the date127 × 178 mm

Rsvp card102 × 140 mm

Menu card120 × 235 mm

Place card90 × 55 mm

Table number105 × 148 mm

Welcome signage500 × 700 mm

Favor tag50 × 80 mm

Thank you card127 × 178 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

#FAF5EA · #2E4A26 · #E45C8C · #5F8F3E · #CE3B44 · #C09553

Warm ivory — the paper, with a real tooth to it · Spruce — every word. This world has no black · Bubblegum — the 1964 ornament’s pink, and it leads · Leaf — a spring-leaf green, never a fir green · Crimson — used less than the other two · Painted brass — the ornament caps, a matte pigment, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Fraunces and Hanken Grotesk 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

Pink leads. On this paper it is painted colour, never a word — spruce sets the type.
The paper stays ivory. Colour goes on top of it, never behind it.
One word is hand-lettered — Christmas — in a real written script, in the pink. Everything else is set properly.
The brass is a painted ochre. If it comes out shiny, it is wrong.
The suite empties as the box does: the cluster early, one object late, the smallest on the place card.
A favour tag must hold a four-digit year legibly at a very small size — and the menu is read without glasses.

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.