Stylogeny combining Acid Graphics × Techno-Futurist Graphics

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Style combination · Pairs well

Acid Graphics × Techno-Futurist Graphics

Borrow The Designers Republic's corporate-parody logos and tiny technical captions to give acid layouts a systematic backbone.

From the research on Acid Graphics / New Ugly

Mix them and make something Acid Graphics Techno-Futurist Graphics

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A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Techno-Futurist Graphics, their arrangement from Acid Graphics, the finish from Acid Graphics. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Acid Graphics / New Ugly Techno-Futurist Graphics

Type from Techno-Futurist Graphics
Colour from Acid Graphics
Form from Techno-Futurist Graphics
Composition from Acid Graphics
Surface from Acid Graphics

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Techno-Futurist Graphics

Signal

Inter Tight, standing in for Helvetica

Text · Acid Graphics

A late-2010s club and poster style that updates 1990s rave graphics with modern 3D tools: liquid-chrome and melting lettering, neo-tribal spikes, wireframes, op-art patterns and acid-green palettes on black, mixed with blackletter and stretched grotesques. Associated with David Rudnick, Studio Cryo and Anja Kaiser and collected on Instagram's @acidgraphix, it overlaps with the 'New Ugly' turn towards deliberate antidesign.

VT323; Acid Graphics used Liquid-chrome and melted custom lettering and Blackletter and neo-gothic display

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Acid Graphics, with a counter-accent from Techno-Futurist Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Acid Graphics / New Ugly Techno-Futurist Graphics

  • #000000 ground · 36%
  • #ffffff ink · 14%
  • #ccff00 accent · 18%
  • #fff200 accent · 14%
  • #ff1ad9 accent · 10%
  • #00aeef accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #000000;
  --ink: #ffffff;
  --accent-1: #ccff00;
  --accent-2: #fff200;
  --accent-3: #ff1ad9;
  --accent-4: #00aeef;
  --font-display: "Inter Tight", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "VT323", monospace;
}

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The two styles

Large silver lettering reading “Night RUSH” fills the top of a black poster crowded with spiky chrome forms, reflective spheres, orbit-like rings and starbursts. Neon pink, lime green and blue pixelated patches and fine grid lines fill the spaces between the metallic shapes. 2016–present · Global / networked, Western Europe, Central Europe Acid Graphics / New Ugly A late-2010s club and poster style that updates 1990s rave graphics with modern 3D tools: liquid-chrome and melting lettering, neo-tribal spikes, wireframes, op-art patterns and acid-green palettes on black, mixed with blackletter and stretched grotesques. Associated with David Rudnick, Studio Cryo and Anja Kaiser and collected on Instagram's @acidgraphix, it overlaps with the 'New Ugly' turn towards deliberate antidesign. A dense futuristic transport poster headed “ORBIT LINK” features a large cyan planet with pink and white orbital rings on a black circular field. Bright geometric icons, a spacecraft silhouette, a world map with routes, technical labels and barcodes fill the surrounding white layout. 1986–2002 · Western Europe, East Asia Techno-Futurist Graphics Electronic-music and video-game graphics of the late 1980s and 1990s that turned corporate modernism into a sci-fi consumer fantasy. Grids, Helvetica, pictograms, barcodes, warning labels and invented corporate logos were recombined with katakana, manga cuteness and early 3D, producing slick, flat, information-saturated surfaces that both celebrated and satirised technology and branding.

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