Style combination · Pairs well

Chicano Screenprint Poster × Chilean Unidad Popular

Both tie community walls to cheap posters for a movement; combine a black-contoured Ramona Parra frieze with Chicano bilingual screenprints for coalition street graphics.

From the research on Chilean Unidad Popular & Nueva Canción Graphics

Mix them and make something Chicano Screenprint Poster Chilean Unidad Popular

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Chicano Screenprint Poster, their arrangement from Chicano Screenprint Poster, the finish from Chilean Unidad Popular. 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.

Chicano Screenprint Poster Chilean Unidad Popular & Nueva Canción Graphics

Type from Chilean Unidad Popular: Hand-lettering
All caps
Colour from Chicano Screenprint Poster: Flat fields
Full polychrome
Form from Chicano Screenprint Poster: Stylised figuration
Folk & sacred symbols
Composition from Chicano Screenprint Poster: Isolated object
Central symmetry
Surface from Chilean Unidad Popular: Hard offset shadow
Flat

The type

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

Display · Chilean Unidad Popular

Wake

Londrina Solid; Chilean Unidad Popular used Hand-drawn closed-form lettering of the Larrea office and Brigada Ramona Parra painted slogan letters

Text · Chicano Screenprint Poster

The screenprinted poster of the Chicano Movement and its heirs, made from the mid-1960s in community workshops across California and the Southwest for farmworker strikes and boycotts, teatro, dances, anti-war marches and immigrant rights. Flat opaque inks, posterised portraits and bilingual slogans recast Mexican icons (the UFW eagle, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Posada's calaveras, Mexica glyphs) for the US barrio, often by parodying American packaging.

Archivo; Chicano Screenprint Poster used Hand-cut screen-stencil lettering and Bold sans and hand-drawn capitals for bilingual strike and boycott slogans

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Chicano Screenprint Poster, with a counter-accent from Chilean Unidad Popular. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Chicano Screenprint Poster Chilean Unidad Popular & Nueva Canción Graphics

#f2eadb ground · 36%
#141414 ink · 14%
#f4a11c accent · 18%
#d7262e accent · 14%
#7a2d8c accent · 10%
#1f6f4a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f2eadb;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #f4a11c;
  --accent-2: #d7262e;
  --accent-3: #7a2d8c;
  --accent-4: #1f6f4a;
  --font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Chicano Screenprint Poster: The Virgin of Guadalupe is a devotional image for many Mexicans and Chicanos, and Chicana feminist reworkings of her have met protest. Mexica glyphs and calendar imagery carry Indigenous meaning, and the UFW black eagle is the union's own emblem, not a free motif. Use them with community context, credit the movement, and commission Chicanx printmakers rather than lifting the look for marketing.

Chilean Unidad Popular & Nueva Canción Graphics: The Brigada Ramona Parra still paints and remains closely tied to Chile's Communist Youth and Communist Party, and the Larrea office's posters and sleeves are living designers' work: Vicente Larrea publicly called the 2022 Rechazo campaign's reuse of 'La felicidad de Chile comienza por los niños' a plagiarism. Víctor Jara was killed after the 1973 coup and brigade members were persecuted. Credit the makers and ask the brigade or the office before quoting their work, rather than stripping it into generic retro-revolutionary styling.