Legible before clever
A name you can't read on a phone at arm's length has failed, however good the layout looks on a desktop.
About the studio
Five Alphabets is a design studio in Varanasi. We make the things a business or a family actually hands to people, and we make them look considered.
Most of what we do arrives at someone else's phone. A card that gets forwarded in a chat, an invitation that has to hold up when it is opened at a wedding, an album a client scrolls through the night after their event. Those moments are short, and a design either earns attention in them or it doesn't.
So the work runs in two halves. Cards, invitations, and albums make up the digital side, where the job is to build something that opens instantly, reads well on a small screen, and stays correct long after it leaves your hands. Identity, logos, retouching, grading, compositing, and print layouts make up the design side, which is the craft underneath that keeps everything else consistent.
We stay small on purpose. One conversation, one plan, one person who knows every file in your project. No handoffs to a team you've never met, and no invented complexity to justify a bigger invoice.
How we work
A name you can't read on a phone at arm's length has failed, however good the layout looks on a desktop.
Screen work is exported for screens, print work is set up for press. Nothing gets sent out at the wrong size or the wrong colour profile.
Editable sources and final exports are handed over at the end. Your brand shouldn't be held hostage by a studio.
Tell us what you need designed and when it has to be ready.
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