A studio monogram for architects and interior designers
Why architects and interior designers suit an entwined monogram, how to draw one that sits in a title block, and examples on letterhead and proposal covers.
Designers judge your design
An architect’s or interior designer’s mark is judged by people who look at drawings for a living. It has to be well made. It also has to sit quietly in the corner of a drawing sheet without competing with the work. A monogram, two or three letters drawn as one, does both.
Initials as architecture
Illustrative scene made from a real Fable design; not a photograph of a delivered order.
Studio Arden’s S and A are interlaced like a piece of joinery and set on a linen proposal cover titled A house by the harbour, beside a white model on the drafting table. The letters are structure, not decoration: verticals, a crossing, a curve.
Choose a letter style
Historical design reference, presented by Fable; not a grant of arms or a new personal design.
Roman capitals, like the overlapping pair in this nineteenth-century plate, suit a classical practice. Gothic letters suit restoration work. Thin script suits interiors. Our story on historic monogram styles shows more of the families.
Make it work in the title block
Test the monogram at about fifteen millimetres wide in black only. That is how it will appear on every drawing sheet, every PDF and every planning submission. If it survives that, it will look wonderful on a cover or a door plate.
Letterhead, proposals and invoices
Illustrative scene made from a real Fable design; not a photograph of a delivered order.
Use the same monogram on letterhead, proposal covers, invoices and contracts. Blind-embossed on a cream sheet or pressed into a wax seal on a client’s envelope, it becomes a signature.
Try yours
Fable draws a monogram from your studio’s name and a line about your work. The preview is free. The Business pack gives you commercial use in writing, brand files for the web and a stationery collection with letterhead, business cards, invoices, contracts and covers, with Word versions. Read more in historic monogram styles.