Style combination · Contrasts
Belarusian Protest Illustration × Extinction Rebellion Graphics
Compare a prescribed wood-type and woodcut identity with an illustrator-led shared vocabulary: Belarusian examples do not require XR's oversized headline, carved texture, print workshop or fixed logo. Shared protest tone and few-colour printing are not evidence of descent.
Mix them and make something Belarusian Protest Illustration Extinction Rebellion Graphics
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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.
Belarusian Protest Illustration (2020 Uprising) Extinction Rebellion Graphics
- Type from Extinction Rebellion Graphics
- Colour from Belarusian Protest Illustration
- Form from Belarusian Protest Illustration
- Composition from Belarusian Protest Illustration
- Surface from Extinction Rebellion 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 · Extinction Rebellion Graphics
Act
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 · Belarusian Protest Illustration
An illustrator-led strand of graphics from Belarus's 2020 democracy uprising, circulated online and as solidarity placards rather than through one prescribed identity. Red and white recall the historical flag; a rider, bleeding hand, cockroach or caricature turns national memory and immediate events into a compact visual argument. Brush silhouettes, modelled portraits, cartoons and cross-stitch-style imagery coexist. This entry focuses on the 2020–early 2021 corpus, not all Belarusian design.
Oswald; Belarusian Protest Illustration used Hand-drawn Cyrillic slogan capitals, as in Pisliak's white inscription; a lettering practice, not a common proprietary font and Condensed sans-serif Cyrillic display capitals, as in Yermolenko's red headline; no specific typeface identification is claimed
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The colours
The ground and leading colours come from Belarusian Protest Illustration, with a counter-accent from Extinction Rebellion Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.
Belarusian Protest Illustration (2020 Uprising) Extinction Rebellion Graphics
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#ffffffground · 36% -
#111111ink · 14% -
#e3342faccent · 18% -
#c80082accent · 14% -
#9fa0a3accent · 10% -
#14aa37accent · 8%
As CSS
:root {
--ground: #ffffff;
--ink: #111111;
--accent-1: #e3342f;
--accent-2: #c80082;
--accent-3: #9fa0a3;
--accent-4: #14aa37;
--font-display: "Alfa Slab One", serif;
--font-text: "Oswald", sans-serif;
}Use it with care
Belarusian Protest Illustration (2020 Uprising): These are living artists' political statements and, in Bazlova's work, a contemporary use of Belarusian embroidery traditions, not anonymous decorative stock. Preserve attribution and the difference between national heritage and a particular maker's reinterpretation. Do not turn victims, police violence or imprisonment into commercial atmosphere. Commission and credit practitioners for related work rather than copying an identifiable artist's designs. Consider the safety and consent of people depicted; do not identify unnamed protesters. Online publication, museum reproduction or inclusion in a solidarity archive does not establish an open image licence. No file-level open licence was verified for the works discussed here; any future specimens must remain link-only unless separately cleared.
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.
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The two styles
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More combinations
With Belarusian Protest Illustration
With Extinction Rebellion Graphics
- Pop Art Graphics Pairs well · The twelve bright colours were influenced by Eduardo Paolozzi; push a slogan poster further towards British Pop with fluorescent flat grounds and one playful image.
- Victorian Letterpress & Wood Type Pairs well · FUCXED imitates old wood type and Burrill printed XR slogans from real wood type; pair the bright XR grounds with a jobbing printer's condensed wood letters for a hand-set protest poster.
- South African Resistance Poster Pairs well · 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.
- Corporate Identity Modernism Contrasts · XR borrows a corporate identity's tools (one symbol, a fixed logotype, a colour palette, a design guide) and turns them into a free, hand-printed kit that bans commercial use.
- Stencil Street Art Pairs well · ESP spread the symbol as a street artist before XR adopted it, chalking it on Brick Lane and putting up posters and tiles around East London; pair XR's one-colour emblem and short slogans with stencil street art's hard-edged sprayed figures for walls and pavements.
- Solidarność & Polish Underground Graphics Pairs well · A later movement that also lives on one simple mark anyone can copy by hand; pair a single shared emblem with locally made, cheaply printed posters to keep a campaign recognisable without central design.
- ACT UP & Gran Fury AIDS Activist Graphics Pairs well · A later movement that again reduces its cause to one emblem and a fixed set of slogans in heavy capitals; pair XR's flat colour grounds with ACT UP's facts in small print when a protest poster must both rally and inform.
- Solarpunk Contrasts · Both answer the climate crisis: XR shouts alarm in woodcut and flat spot colour; solarpunk paints the hopeful world after it. Pair them for campaigns that move from warning to vision.