Indigo Envelope

Archive for typography

Typography Focused Invitation in Blush

A trend that is taking the wedding invitation marketplace by storm lately revolves around featuring strong, bold, typography focused elements. As designers, this is music to our ears. We love playing with typography, and when it also gets to be a key focus of the design, that’s even better. This was our chance to put our own spin on the trend, mixing it with travel-themed elements.

Typography Focused Invitation Details

This suite features warm ecru paper, blush key features, and eggplant accents. A textured “seashell” paper backing card with subtle gold reflects adds polish as well as pop to the suite. Most noteworthy, the main typeface used added the perfect amount of flair in addition to a handmade feel. A monogram of the couple’s initials was also created to tie their style through to the envelopes and thank you notes. Boarding passes took the place of place cards for this reception and corresponded to a “location” found on the matching tables markers. (We really love doing travel themes and have many ideas we can tweak for your event!) T-shirts and koozies made for useful mementos of the occasion.

Congratulations Jessye & Daniel!  

Thanks to these other vendors who helped create the event and shared these images with us:

Photos shared courtesy of EmilieCarol Photography |  Ceremony & Reception Venue Chapel Hill Carriage House

Indigo Envelope Typography Focused Thank Yous in Blush Indigo Envelope Typography Focused Details in Blush Indigo Envelope Typography Focused Details in Blush Indigo Envelope Typography Focused Invitations

A Simple Modern Typographic Wedding

A Simple Modern Typographic Wedding

Leah and Reid, who wed at The Cotton Room here in Durham, came to us with some great design concepts.  They had a great sense of humor, and they wanted to create a wedding with a strong graphic identity.  They envisioned a simple modern typographic wedding with playful elements, and we loved bringing that to life.

Simple Modern Typographic Wedding Details

For Leah and Reid’s design we created a simple, modern invitation suite with an emphasis on typography.  Letterpressing the invite for a clean and luxe feel, their suite featured a charcoal pocketcard accented with metallic pearl.  It was important to include their sense of humour, showcased by footnotes with nods to their shared history or inside jokes.  The footnotes were also a nod to Reid’s career as a professor of philosophy and academic writing.  A custom monogram was repeated on the cake and other elements of their design.  A large seating chart replaced table numbers for a bold decor statement.  Another playful touch was the puzzle pieces for guests to sign, rather than the traditional guest book.

Congratulations Leah and Reid!

Thanks to these other vendors who helped create the event and shared these images with us:

Photos shared courtesy of Kevin Milz Photography  |  Wedding venue The Cotton Room  | Reception held at The Cotton Room

Indigo Envelope Modern Typographic Wedding

Indigo Envelope Modern Typographic Wedding
Indigo Envelope Modern Typographic Wedding
Indigo Envelope Modern Typographic Wedding

Wedding Stationery Trends for 2014

You can make your stationery suite as unique as yourselves and limited only by your imagination. We’ve scouted out trends at the National Stationery Show, and also read the insights of industry mavens at The Knot, and here are a few trends we are seeing in stationery orders for this year:

Typography

Creative hand calligraphy and fonts that are inspired and created by prominent calligraphers (some with more than 2,000 glyphs!) allow us to give you that hand-written look. Distressed type and vintage poster-inspired typography is also trending now. (We have added collections of fonts this year from World War II posters and Civil War era letterpress work.) We have also added some calligraphy fonts that appear to be slightly distressed and have a true hand-written look.

Patterns

Add some patterns to your stationery in a range of choices: chevron, geometric motifs, and florals. Use them as backing cards, on the back of invitations, or add a custom envelope liner to brighten up your invitation’s style.

Colors

Soft neutral tones, tans and grays have been more dominant, although still some darker colors of navy, eggplant, and black are used. Nationally, trend watchers note ombre gradations in print pieces, as well as a resurgence of silver, gold, and glitter (although our clients recently have tended to be a little bit more earthy). A pop of color against a neutral palette is also trendy.

Themes

Engaged couples these days can’t get enough of the rustic look, including woodland-style venues and attire, and rustic themed stationery to match. They are also into celebrating locale and places the couples love and the celebration of romance with the use of vintage images.

Personalization

Custom made monograms dominate many notecards and thank you notes as well as invitations. Also, creative illustration that is particular to a couple’s interests and personality are trending now. Unique save the date photos in fun places, or places that are special to the couple are also showing up in wedding stationery trends.

Flowers

Not just flowers found everywhere at your ceremony and reception, the bride’s dress, and a fresh flower wall for your escort cards. Floral motifs for your stationery are also a hot wedding stationery trend for 2014.