Welcome to Northern Mushroom Club

This is everything you need to use the Northern Mushroom Club brand properly, whether you're creating content, writing a post, printing a market banner or putting our name on a menu. It covers who we are, what we stand for, and how we should look and sound wherever people come across us. Some of it is fixed. The logo, the colours and the type stay as they are. The rest is there to point you in the right direction, so there's plenty of room for good ideas as long as they still feel like us. If it looks like it came off a supermarket shelf, it isn't us. If it feels like a chat with Carly and Ellie at the stall, you're on the right track.

Our Story

We Are Carly and Ellie, and we grow mushrooms in a 300-year-old barn in Yorkshire. We started Northern Mushroom Club because people deserve better than sad, soggy imported mushrooms.

We pick ours at their best which means you get maximum flavour, with nobody in between. Welcome to the club.


We both came from beer, working at family breweries that grew from a handful of people into names known across the country and beyond. We watched craft beer show people there was more to beer than mass-produced lager.

Mushrooms haven't had that moment yet. We want to be part of it, while staying small enough that we're still the faces behind every box.

Because right now, most mushrooms in the UK are imported. They probably look fine when they leave. By the time they've travelled here they're sad and soggy, and they're the reason so many people think they don't like mushrooms.

So we built our own growing room inside a 300-year-old barn in Yorkshire. It's a room within a room, full of fans, filters and humidifiers, and we built it ourselves. Pythagoras was involved at one point. It didn't help. We call it the Mushroom House.

Being small means we pick at exactly the right moment and can send the same day. No secret recipe and no middleman.

Within our first year our mushrooms were on the menus of some of the best restaurants in the north, Michelin-starred kitchens included, and on our stalls at weekend markets around York and Leeds.

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Wordmarks

Our Brand Wordmarks incorporate the brand name in a variety of different ways, suitable for different use cases and applications.

Shortened Wordmark
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Logomark

The brand logomark is our smallest and simplest mark. It works where there's no room for words at all: social profile pictures, the website favicon, stickers, document footers, embroidery and stamps. Like the shortened wordmark, it's a supporting mark, so it sits alongside the full name somewhere nearby rather than standing in for it the first time someone meets us.

Primary Logomark
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Colours

Our palette is eight colours, and every one of them is named after something from the world of mushrooms. There's an off-black, off-white, combined with three organic, natural tones, and three bold, eye-catching colours. It's earthy where it needs to be and loud where it counts, like a good market stall. Use these colours and only these colours, with the corresponding colour codes.

Spore
hex:  #0D120D
rgb:  13 / 18 / 13
cmyk:  75 / 65 / 70 / 70
25%
Mycelium
hex:  #F2E2CD
rgb:  242 / 226 / 205
cmyk:  5 / 19 / 15 / 0
25%
Moss
hex:  #445D2F
rgb:  68 / 93 / 47
cmyk:  61 / 30 / 88 / 36
12%
Lichen
hex:  #CDE862
rgb:  205 / 232 / 98
cmyk:  20 / 0 / 65 / 0
12%
Lion's Mane
hex:  #F4CD94
rgb:  244 / 205 / 148
cmyk:  0 / 20 / 40 / 0
6%
Chanterelle
hex:  #E07114
rgb:  224 / 113 / 20
cmyk:  0 / 60 / 95 / 0
6%
Blewit
hex:  #D9BBF3
rgb:  217 / 187 / 243
cmyk:  20 / 25 / 0 / 0
6%
Pink Oyster
hex:  #FBB3D2
rgb:  251 / 179 / 210
cmyk:  0 / 35 / 0 / 0
6%
Colour Combinations
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Type System

Three fonts and a handwritten accent, each with its own role. Ranchers shouts, Golden Story adds character, Fraunces does the explaining and Caveat leaves the personal notes.

Primary Header Typeface
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Ranchers
Google Fonts by Impallari Type
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789!@#$%^&*()?+
Secondary Header Typeface
Aa
Golden Story
By Timur Type Studio
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789!@#$%^&*()?+
Primary Body Typeface
Aa
Fraunces
Google Fonts by Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles, Flavia Zimbardi
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789!@#$%^&*()?+
Accent Typeface
Aa
Caveat
Google Fonts by Impallari Type
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789!@#$%^&*()?+
Type Hierarchy
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Brand Illustrations

Carly and Ellie, drawn as themselves. We're the face of the business, so we're the face of the brand, on our own or together.

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Mushroom Mascots

Our whole cast of mushrooms and more. Every variety we grow has its own character, so people can spot their favourite across fresh, dried and grow kits.

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Icons & Badges

Our USPs, numbers, ticks and crosses, all drawn on wobbly mushroom-shaped backgrounds. They get the important stuff across fast, without a wall of text.

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Visual Imagery & Applications

The real thing. Us and the Mushroom House, the mushrooms themselves, and the people who buy, cook and eat them. Natural, honest and never boring stock photos.

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Team Photos

Never overly staged. No arms folded in a line, no forced grins at the camera. Our team photos should show what it's actually like growing mushrooms for a living, the laughs in the growing room, the muddy boots and the fact that we genuinely love running Northern Mushroom Club. If it looks like a corporate headshot, it isn't us.