Style combination · Pairs well

Fante Asafo Flags × Ghanaian Movie Poster

Both are Ghanaian popular images that sell a confrontation at a glance: the movie poster paints it in lurid brushwork, the asafo flag cuts it in flat cloth, so pair them for a loud, local announcement with one cut-out emblem against a painted scene.

From the research on Fante Asafo Flags (Frankaa)

Mix them and make something Fante Asafo Flags Ghanaian Movie Poster

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Fante Asafo Flags, their arrangement from Ghanaian Movie Poster, the finish from Ghanaian Movie Poster. 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.

Fante Asafo Flags (Frankaa) Ghanaian Movie Poster

Type from Ghanaian Movie Poster: Hand-lettering
All caps
Colour from Fante Asafo Flags: Flat fields
Full polychrome
Form from Fante Asafo Flags: Stylised figuration
Emblems & badges
Composition from Ghanaian Movie Poster: Extreme scale contrast
Collage & layering
Surface from Ghanaian Movie Poster: Painterly brushwork

The type

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

Display · Ghanaian Movie Poster

Square

Bungee Shade, standing in for Sign-painter shaded and drop-shadowed letters

Text · Fante Asafo Flags

The company flags (frankaa) of the Fante asafo, the old warrior companies of Ghana's central coast, widely adopted from the mid-nineteenth century. Flag-makers cut flat silhouettes of animals, people and objects from coloured cotton and sew them onto a plain ground, often inside a border of checks or triangles, with a national flag in the upper hoist corner: a Union Jack until 1957, then Ghana's. Each flag stages one proverb, boast or taunt aimed at rival companies, and is danced, paraded and hung at the company shrine.

Archivo; Fante Asafo Flags used Embroidered block capitals and numerals naming the company and Company numbers such as 'Nº1' and 'Nº2' in a contrasting cloth or thread, set in the field or along an arm of a large cross that divides the field ('NºI' in red on the bottom arm of a wide golden-yellow cross, Flags of the World 'Crocodiles and moon' flag)

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Fante Asafo Flags, with a counter-accent from Ghanaian Movie Poster. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Fante Asafo Flags (Frankaa) Ghanaian Movie Poster

#f0e9d8 ground · 36%
#1b1b1b ink · 14%
#f2b31b accent · 18%
#1e6fd9 accent · 14%
#c62a2f accent · 10%
#1e3a8a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f0e9d8;
  --ink: #1b1b1b;
  --accent-1: #f2b31b;
  --accent-2: #1e6fd9;
  --accent-3: #c62a2f;
  --accent-4: #1e3a8a;
  --font-display: "Bungee Shade", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Fante Asafo Flags (Frankaa): Asafo companies are living institutions of Fante towns: each flag belongs to its company, is commissioned when a new captain takes office, is danced at festivals and members' funerals and hung at the company shrine, and its image is often a taunt aimed at a particular rival company. Do not copy a company's flag or emblem for branding, learn what a motif says as a proverb before using it, since a scene can boast or insult, and do not pass off a new flag sewn with a Union Jack as a colonial-era piece: workshops have made flags for collectors and tourists in record numbers since the mid-1990s, including new flags made to look pre-independence. Company imagery has carried political stakes: under colonial rule the British administration imposed strict regulations on asafo companies and their arts. Commission and credit Fante flag-makers' workshops rather than printing imitations.