Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster × Dhaka Rickshaw Painting

Painted film-star faces are a core subject; rickshaw painters often began as cinema-poster painters.

From the research on Dhaka Rickshaw Painting

Mix them and make something Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster Dhaka Rickshaw Painting

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Dhaka Rickshaw Painting, their arrangement from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster, the finish from Dhaka Rickshaw Painting. 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.

Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster Dhaka Rickshaw Painting

Type from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster: Hand-lettering
Ornamented display
Colour from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster: Full polychrome
Complementary clash
Form from Dhaka Rickshaw Painting: Abundant decoration
Floral & vegetal
Composition from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster: Collage & layering
Extreme scale contrast
Surface from Dhaka Rickshaw Painting: Painterly brushwork

The type

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

Display · Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

Amour

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

Text · Dhaka Rickshaw Painting

Oil paintings made by street artists on the metal back-board and canvas hood of cycle rickshaws in Bangladesh. Film stars, flowers, birds, landscapes and religious scenes appear in bold, raw colours, framed by borders and decked with appliqué, tinsel and plastic flowers. UNESCO inscribed it in 2023. Unlike the chrome, bone and wood work of pakistani-truck-art or the jeepney's metal ornament, its core is a framed oil picture panel, often led by a film-star portrait, with a plainer appliquéd hood.

Archivo; Dhaka Rickshaw Painting used Hand-painted Bangla lettering and Hand-painted Latin and Arabic-script lettering for names and religious phrases

The colours

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

Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster Dhaka Rickshaw Painting

#1a1418 ground · 36%
#ffd23f ink · 14%
#f28c1c accent · 18%
#e8559b accent · 14%
#b3121b accent · 10%
#1b4fa0 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #1a1418;
  --ink: #ffd23f;
  --accent-1: #f28c1c;
  --accent-2: #e8559b;
  --accent-3: #b3121b;
  --accent-4: #1b4fa0;
  --font-display: "Yatra One", cursive;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Dhaka Rickshaw Painting: This is a living craft practised by working, rarely credited artisans, tied to Bangladeshi communities and particular districts, and it is endangered as rickshaws decline; imitate its manner with care, credit makers where known (some sign with steel pins) and do not present pastiche as authentic rickshaw art.