Your event identity — the second name

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 card at a place, a note left at the desk — still looks as though the same person wrote it.

The colours

A cream sheet, one brown ink, and a red that appears only where a second hand has written. That is the palette. The red is not decoration and it is not a highlight: it marks the moment somebody added a name that was not supposed to be there.

Register cream — the leaf itself
#FBF6E4
Iron-gall brown — every word
#3B2A22
The second hand, in red
#9E2B34
The same red, older
#5E1B21
Foxed paper
#E7E2D6

The two typefaces

Elizabeth & William's Wedding
Pinyon Script — the two names, and nothing else in the suite. Once per piece, very large.
The Bonheur Hotel
Fraunces — every other word — the date, the address, the courses. All of it quiet, all of it small.

The one mark

There is no crest, no monogram in a circle, and no ornament. The mark is the writing itself — a real hand at a real weight, set enormous, with everything else standing quietly at the edges and waiting. If a flourish appears it is because somebody was writing quickly, not because one was drawn on afterwards.

Engraved from a hand-cut die on cotton rag, with tissue interleaving and envelopes addressed by hand in the same ink. You can feel the type with a fingertip and see its bruise on the reverse — that impression is the whole finish, and there is nothing metallic anywhere.

Your suite

Invitation card127 × 178 mm
Save the date140 × 100 mm
Rsvp card127 × 89 mm
Menu card100 × 210 mm
Place cards90 × 55 mm
Table numbers100 × 150 mm
Order of service127 × 178 mm
Envelope liner133 × 184 mm
Custom monogram127 × 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

#FBF6E4 · #3B2A22 · #9E2B34 · #5E1B21 · #E7E2D6

Register cream — the leaf itself · Iron-gall brown — every word · The second hand, in red · The same red, older · Foxed paper, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Pinyon Script 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.

5 rules, if you make something new
  1. The names are enormous and everything else is quiet, standing at the edges.
  2. One brown ink on cream. The red appears only where a second hand writes.
  3. The script is a written hand at a real weight — never stretched, never condensed to fit.
  4. No ornament of any kind. A flourish only where writing quickly would have made one.
  5. If a monogram appears it is written, never built — no circle, no crest, no frame.

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.