Style combination · Pairs well

South African Resistance Poster × Extinction Rebellion Graphics

Both are cheap workshop prints with heavy capitals and an organisation's emblem; XR adds a centrally specified twelve-colour kit where the struggle posters kept to one to three hand-cut inks.

From the research on Extinction Rebellion Graphics

Mix them and make something South African Resistance Poster Extinction Rebellion Graphics

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from South African Resistance Poster, their arrangement from South African Resistance Poster, the finish from Extinction Rebellion Graphics. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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.

South African Resistance Poster Extinction Rebellion Graphics

Type from Extinction Rebellion Graphics: All caps
Type as image
Colour from South African Resistance Poster: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from South African Resistance Poster: Emblems & badges
Stylised figuration
Composition from South African Resistance Poster: Central symmetry
Layered information
Surface from Extinction Rebellion Graphics: Carved line
Paper & letterpress bite

The type

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

Display · Extinction Rebellion Graphics

Wake

Alfa Slab One, standing in for FUCXED Caps (drawn by Clive Russell of This Ain't Rock'n'Roll from an old woodcut-style wood type he found on eBay, deliberately slightly wonky; XR's headline print face, download file FUCXED v4; FUCXED Latin is recommended for online graphics)

Text · South African Resistance Poster

The posters of the struggle against apartheid, from the exiled Medu Art Ensemble in Gaborone to the community workshops that served the United Democratic Front and the unions in the 1980s. Low-tech silkscreen from hand-cut stencils was chosen on purpose: cheap, quick to teach, workable without electricity and often illegal. One to three flat inks carry heavy hand-lettered slogans, organisation logos, fists, crowds and photographs converted to line.

Archivo; South African Resistance Poster used Hand-cut stencil capitals and Hand-lettered heavy block capitals

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from South African Resistance Poster, with a counter-accent from Extinction Rebellion Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

South African Resistance Poster Extinction Rebellion Graphics

#f4f1e8 ground · 36%
#141414 ink · 14%
#f2b51d accent · 18%
#c80082 accent · 14%
#d7261e accent · 10%
#14aa37 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1e8;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #f2b51d;
  --accent-2: #c80082;
  --accent-3: #d7261e;
  --accent-4: #14aa37;
  --font-display: "Alfa Slab One", serif;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

South African Resistance Poster: The photograph of the dying Hector Pieterson (Sam Nzima, 16 June 1976) and the portraits of detainees and the dead show real people whose families and communities still remember them, and ANC, UDF and COSATU colours and the spear and shield are the marks of living organisations. Use them with context and permission rather than as generic protest styling.

Extinction Rebellion Graphics: Extinction Rebellion is a living movement and the Extinction Symbol is credited to the artist ESP, who lends it to XR only for non-commercial use; XR says it will pursue anyone selling merchandise with it. Do not put the symbol, the XR logotype or a close imitation of the kit on products, fundraising, advertising or brand campaigns, and do not dress a company's climate message in XR's look to borrow its credibility.