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title: 'Invitation design'
description: 'Choosing a design, a colour and a typeface, and what each one quietly says before a word is read.'
source: 'https://envelope.love/blog/design'
guides: '6'
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# Invitation design.

How an invitation looks, and what that is quietly saying before a word of it is read. Composition, colour and type.

This is the plain markdown copy of https://envelope.love/blog/design, published by Love Envelope for machine readers. The page itself carries the same words.

- [Sending your invitation in two languages](https://envelope.love/blog/invitations-in-two-languages.md): For families who do not share one. What to translate, what to leave alone, and why one invitation works better than two.
- [Choosing an invitation design, in five decisions](https://envelope.love/blog/choosing-an-invitation-design.md): Layout, colour, type, paper and motion. What each one is quietly telling your guests, and the order to decide them in.
- [Do digital invitations look cheap?](https://envelope.love/blog/do-digital-invitations-look-cheap.md): The honest answer, and the four things that actually make one look it. Every one of them is a design decision rather than a fact about screens.
- [Choosing colours for your invitation](https://envelope.love/blog/invitation-colours.md): Why most invitations are ivory, when to break that, and how to pick a palette that still looks right on a phone screen.
- [Typefaces on an invitation, and what each one says](https://envelope.love/blog/invitation-typefaces.md): Script, serif or sans. Which face to use for the names, which for everything else, and the one mistake that makes an invitation look homemade.
- [Should you put a photograph on your invitation?](https://envelope.love/blog/photograph-on-your-invitation.md): When a picture makes an invitation, when it makes it a postcard, and which photograph to actually use.

## Other subjects

- [Invitation wording](https://envelope.love/blog/wording.md): What to actually write, with lines you can take as they are.
- [Invitation etiquette](https://envelope.love/blog/etiquette.md): Whose name goes where, who has to be invited, and how to say no kindly.
- [Planning the invitations](https://envelope.love/blog/planning.md): When each piece happens, and what has to be decided before it can.
- [Sending the invitations](https://envelope.love/blog/sending.md): Getting it into a hundred hands without a trip to the post office.
- [Replies and head counts](https://envelope.love/blog/replies.md): Head counts, dietary needs, and the guests who never answer.
- [Invitations by occasion](https://envelope.love/blog/occasions.md): The other days that need an invitation, from the engagement to the fiftieth.

Make yours. Six designs, your own words, and one link to send. Free to build, free for a day once it is live. https://envelope.love/create