Style combination · Pairs well

Chicano Screenprint Poster × Gráfica del 68

Both descend from the Taller de Gráfica Popular and parody official imagery; add Chicano flat colour and bilingual wordplay to a 68-style emblem when the audience lives on both sides of the border.

From the research on Gráfica del 68 (Mexican Student Movement Graphics)

Mix them and make something Chicano Screenprint Poster Gráfica del 68

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Chicano Screenprint Poster, their arrangement from Gráfica del 68, the finish from Gráfica del 68. 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 Gráfica del 68 (Mexican Student Movement Graphics)

Type from Gráfica del 68: Hand-lettering
All caps
Colour from Chicano Screenprint Poster: Flat fields
Full polychrome

Gráfica del 68 avoids full polychrome: this is where the two pull against each other.
Form from Chicano Screenprint Poster: Stylised figuration
Folk & sacred symbols
Composition from Gráfica del 68: Single focal point
Isolated object
Surface from Gráfica del 68: 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 · Gráfica del 68

Rise

Permanent Marker; Gráfica del 68 used Capitals cut into the linoleum block together with the image and Brushed and stencilled slogans on cardboard placards and cloth mantas

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 Gráfica del 68. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Chicano Screenprint Poster Gráfica del 68 (Mexican Student Movement Graphics)

#f2eadb ground · 36%
#141414 ink · 14%
#f4a11c accent · 18%
#c4161c accent · 14%
#a9845b accent · 10%
#7a2d8c accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f2eadb;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #f4a11c;
  --accent-2: #c4161c;
  --accent-3: #a9845b;
  --accent-4: #7a2d8c;
  --font-display: "Permanent Marker", 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.

Gráfica del 68 (Mexican Student Movement Graphics): These images answered real repression: soldiers entered the schools, a raid on San Carlos destroyed its workshop and prints, and the number of people killed at Tlatelolco on 2 October 1968 is still not known, so do not use the bloodied dove, the gorilla or Tlatelolco imagery as edgy styling for a brand, a product or an Olympic-themed event. Mexiac's chained, gagged figure is a Tzotzil man, drawn in 1954 against the coup in Guatemala; do not turn it into a generic mascot of silencing. The makers agreed not to sign their work, for the movement's sake and for their own safety, and many attributions are later and disputed (the dove placard among them), so credit works as 'attributed to' or to the brigade, and never present a pastiche as a 1968 original.