Screenshot of Osteria Ilaria

Osteria Ilaria

www.osteriailaria.com/

The reference for pairing a light monospace (laplace-mono-light) in letterspaced uppercase against a warm cream field (#FDF6E5) and a single hand-painted Miro-esque abstract as the entire hero, so a restaurant reads as gallery not menu.

Hospitality flagship

Design tokens

background
surface
text
textMuted
accent
border
tone1
tone2
display
Laplace-Mono-
body
laplace-mono-light
mono
laplace-mono-light

Do / Don't

Reference it for

  • Light monospace display in all-caps with positive letter-spacing (laplace-mono-light) carrying nav, wordmark and body alike, one typeface doing everything
  • Warm cream page field hsla(40,88.24%,96.67%) ~#FDF6E5 instead of white, the whole site sits on paper
  • A single large hand-drawn / painted artwork (loose ink lines + soft colour blobs: red, ochre, teal, green, yellow) as the hero, no photography of food
  • Wordmark set as OSTERIA ILARIA followed by a trailing slash, the slash used as a persistent typographic device (MENU/ CELLAR SERIES/ RESERVE/)
  • Deep olive-green as the only saturated brand ink for the site title hsla(69.31,61.7%,18.43%) ~#404B12 against black body copy
  • Section labels as ILARIA / MENU, ILARIA / CELLAR SERIES, a fixed prefix-slash-label naming pattern
  • Menu presented as plain letterspaced mono text lines with trailing prices (Scallop, basil butter, cacciatore - 14ea), no cards, no dividers
  • Charcoal near-black hsla(240,2.61%,22.55%) ~#37373A reserved for inverted panels / drawers, warm grey hsla(42.86,3.87%,64.51%) ~#A8A5A0 for buttons and strokes

Do not copy

  • The Osteria Ilaria wordmark and the trailing-slash lockup
  • The specific hand-painted Miro-style artwork and its exact colour blobs
  • The licensed Typekit face fino and laplace-mono-light as literal font choices
  • The Melbourne address, phone, and eat@osteriailaria.com contact details
  • The actual menu copy and dish descriptions (Sher wagyu rump cap, basil cheesecake, etc.)
  • The Conferre Group / Wurundjeri acknowledgement wording and sibling-venue address list
  • The olive-green + cream exact palette as a whole (recolour to the new brand)