Stylogeny combining Amar Chitra Katha Comics × Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

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Amar Chitra Katha Comics × Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

Painted Hindi-film publicity from the same Bombay decades; its floating star heads, melodramatic colour and hand-drawn title logos suit an Amar Chitra Katha cover pushed louder.

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Mix them and make something Amar Chitra Katha Comics Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

OURSAmar Chitra × Hand-Painted Bollywood
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Amar Chitra Katha Comics, their arrangement from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster, the finish from Amar Chitra Katha Comics. 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.

Amar Chitra Katha Comics Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

Type from Amar Chitra Katha Comics
Colour from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster
Form from Amar Chitra Katha Comics
Composition from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

Amar Chitra Katha Comics avoids collage & layering: this is where the two pull against each other.

Surface from Amar Chitra Katha Comics

Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster avoids flat: this is where the two pull against each other.

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The type

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

Display · Amar Chitra Katha Comics

Ours

Londrina Solid, standing in for Upright hand-lettered capitals (dialogue in round speech balloons, evenly spaced and drawn by hand)

Text · Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

The painted publicity of Bombay's Hindi film industry, at its height from the 1940s to the 1980s. Studio artists painted portrait-led montages that were printed by lithography and offset as posters, booklets and press ads, while hoarding painters enlarged them by hand onto giant cinema billboards. Floating star heads, melodramatic colour and bold hand-drawn title logos were its signature until digital photo printing displaced it in the 1990s.

Archivo; Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster used Hand-drawn 3D title logos and Extruded and drop-shadowed display capitals

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster, with a counter-accent from Amar Chitra Katha Comics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Amar Chitra Katha Comics Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

  • #1a1418 ground · 36%
  • #ffd23f ink · 14%
  • #f28c1c accent · 18%
  • #b3121b accent · 14%
  • #6fa3d8 accent · 10%
  • #1b6fa8 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #1a1418;
  --ink: #ffd23f;
  --accent-1: #f28c1c;
  --accent-2: #b3121b;
  --accent-3: #6fa3d8;
  --accent-4: #1b6fa8;
  --font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Amar Chitra Katha Comics: The series, its covers, characters and sunburst logo belong to its publisher (Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd) and its artists: draw your own figures, covers and badge, never ask an image model for an ACK title or a named artist's hand, and never present a generated page as an ACK comic. Many of its subjects are deities whom readers worship, so do not mock, crop or deface them. Scholars have criticised the series for giving heroes extremely fair skin while coding dark skin with violence, brutality and low caste, for casting Muslims as either secular heroes or zealous villains, for drawing the British as ugly caricatures, and for leaving women, Muslims and lower castes out of its history: give gods, demons, villains, Muslims, Dalit and Adivasi characters the same drawing care, never use skin colour, features or dress as markers of evil, caste or religion, draw people across the real range of South Asian skin tones rather than one pale, uniform type, and do not present one Hindu reading as the whole of India's past.

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The two styles

A colourful comic poster titled “The River Friends” follows four children in a rural village as they seek advice and bring their community together to build a stone check dam across a drying river. Black-bordered panels show the village, conversations with elders, collective construction, and the friends beside the restored river. 1967–present · South Asia Amar Chitra Katha Comics The Bombay comic-book series that from 1967 retold Hindu myth and epic, Buddhist and Jain tales, saints, folk legends, the jests of the court wits Birbal and Tenali Raman, and Indian history for children, in English and Indian languages, with well over 500 titles by the early 1990s. Each issue of about 32 pages tells one story, or a few short tales, in regular grids of ruled panels: brush-inked, idealised figures in flat colour, narration in tinted caption boxes, hand-lettered capitals, an iconography fixed from book to book, and a painted cover, often in the idiom of Indian calendar art. A colourful painted-style film poster combines three large portraits with an embracing couple, horsemen, a steam train, snowy mountains, a helicopter, a hilltop fortress and a waterfall. Huge yellow-and-red Devanagari lettering spans the lower portion above a waterfront procession with elephants and boats. 1940–1999 · South Asia Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster The painted publicity of Bombay's Hindi film industry, at its height from the 1940s to the 1980s. Studio artists painted portrait-led montages that were printed by lithography and offset as posters, booklets and press ads, while hoarding painters enlarged them by hand onto giant cinema billboards. Floating star heads, melodramatic colour and bold hand-drawn title logos were its signature until digital photo printing displaced it in the 1990s.

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