"Tenir Bon Banner" Classic Dad Hat · Embroidered

Black edging traces the turned tip at each end of the ribbon, a small boundary that makes the white tails read separately from the front panel. Across the face, Tenir bon is drawn in heavy slab serifs, each ochre-brown letter held by a thick black contour and adjusted to the ribbon’s shallow arch. The words are French for hold on or keep going, with a clear white interval between them instead of a continuous block of type. Dark reddish-brown curves define the banner’s upper and lower limits, while the pointed tails angle outward and down.

Tenir Bon Banner is worked as embroidery on a Classic Dad Hat, where the open lower portion gives the ornament its own room beneath the crowded lettering. An ochre-brown five-point star, outlined in black, anchors that space. On either side, three green leaves follow a short curved black stem; the leaves are outlined individually, not merged into a single flourish. Small ochre-brown triangular folds peek from under the front ribbon panel, supplying the only hints of its turn and depth. The design depends on that contrast: dense, arched lettering at the top and a deliberately spare white field around the star and foliage below.