2.1 KiB
2.1 KiB
Visual style: brutalist
Brutalist editorial newspaper. Wall-to-wall small type, irregular column widths, heavy rule lines, raw structure on show. Reportorial and information-dense — for annual reviews, research digests, manifestos, editorial decks that flaunt density.
1. Shape & decoration
- Shape language: hard rectangles and ruled boxes; thick black borders / cell frames; visible column dividers. Corner radius
rx="0"— never rounded. - Decoration: the grid itself is the decoration — masthead bars, rule lines, boxed pull-quotes, halftone fills. No gradients, no soft cards, no shadows.
- Whitespace: tight and deliberate — narrow margins, dense columns, a newspaper's packed rhythm. Density is the point; one or two breathing zones per page keep it readable, not airy.
- Irregular multi-column layout (mixed column widths) over a uniform grid; asymmetry is intentional.
2. Typography character
- Three-family hard contrast: a heavy display sans for headlines (poster-black weight), a serif for column body, monospace for figures / data — the collision is the look.
- Small body size, high density; strong size jump between masthead headline and body. Flush-left columns, tight leading.
Families are chosen at confirmation
g; this style asks for a display-black × serif-body × monospace-data character.
3. Using the deck's colors
- Near-monochrome: ink-dark structure and type on a paper-light field; a single spot accent appears rarely (a masthead rule, one key figure, a stamp) — a few percent of canvas at most.
- Color as punctuation, not fill. No color blocking, no gradients — the accent earns attention by scarcity.
HEX values come from confirmation
e; this style only governs how sparingly the accent is used — it names no colors.
4. Texture / elevation
- Strictly flat — no drop shadows, no elevation. Depth comes from rule weight and halftone texture, not material. Optional paper-grain / halftone
<pattern>for a printed feel.
5. Paired image-rendering
screen-print or editorial — halftone monochrome imagery that sits inside the newsprint aesthetic.