Brand Book · No. 001

Gathered Mahjong

The house standard. How we look, speak, and set the table.

Kept by Kelly · Jill · Nha · Conner The house standard · v1
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The marks

Three marks, one family. The tile is our signature, the wordmark our voice, the seal our blessing. Give each of them room; never crowd, stretch, or recolor them outside the house palette.

G

The Tile

Primary mark. Gallery blue backing, double brass keyline, italic brass monogram. Use on covers, avatars, favicons, and wherever a single gesture must carry the brand.

Gathered Mahjong

The Wordmark

Fraunces, light weight, with the second word always in italic brass. Never set it in all caps; it is a name, not an acronym.

The Seal

聚, to gather. A clay red chop used sparingly: closing a page, signing a card, sealing a box. One per composition, slightly rotated, as if pressed by hand.

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The palette

Drawn from Nha's studio: paper, ink, and metals. Gallery Blue leads; Brass answers. Everything else supports quietly.

Gallery Blue#14264E

Tile backings, mats, grounds. The lead color.

Midnight#0B1834

Depth behind Gallery Blue. Studio and night scenes.

Bone#FBF7EE

Tile faces. The brightest surface we allow.

Ivory#F5EFE3

Page grounds, handmade paper. Warm, never stark white.

Brass#C6A15B

Accents, keylines, monograms. Precious; ration it.

Palm#41604E

Botanical ink. Fronds, bams, living things.

Clay#A9502F

Seals, red dragons, moments of heat.

Pine Soot#20201C

Body ink. Text and craks, after Nha's soot ink.

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The letterforms

Display · Fraunces Light The art of gathering, tile by tile.
Labels · Inter, tracked wide Collection No. 001 · Modern Palms
Body · Inter Light Body copy is set quietly and generously leaded, like a letterpress card. Short sentences. Warm, plain words. We explain less and evoke more.
Calligraphic accents 東 南 西 北 · 萬 中 發 聚Serif CJK forms only, in palette inks, honoring the traditional faces.
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Anatomy of a Gathered tile

1 g G 1 2 3 4
  • 1Index numeral

    Fraunces, in the suit's ink. Readable across the table without leaning.

  • 2The painting

    Every face carries Nha's brushwork, engraved and hand-inked. One bird per set gets the brass beak stroke.

  • 3The small g

    A lowercase italic g signs each suit face, the way an artist signs a corner.

  • 4Gallery Blue backing

    Deep blue with a brass keyline and monogram. The first thing guests see in the wall.

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How we speak

Like a letter, not a landing page

Short sentences. Warm, concrete words. We say table, friends, hands, ink. We never say synergy, elevate your experience, or unlock.

Small is the point

We never apologize for limited runs. A few hundred sets is not scarcity marketing; it is how quality survives.

The art gets the credit

Nha's name appears wherever her work does. We write about paintings becoming tiles, never about products or SKUs.

Never, ever

No em dashes. No exclamation marks in a row. No AI gloss words like seamless, curated, or crafted with love. If a sentence could sit on any brand's site, it is not ours yet.