Style combination · Contrasts

Cottagecore × Hipster Artisanal Revival

Shares handmade, small-batch values, but swap its black-and-white urban badges for soft colour and florals to get cottagecore.

From the research on Cottagecore

Mix them and make something Cottagecore Hipster Artisanal Revival

A large dark moth with crescent moons on its outstretched wings sits against a golden sunburst, surrounded by symmetrical leafy stems and rust-red flowers. The words “SLOW DAYS” appear across the top of the textured cream poster, enclosed by a rounded double-line border. — AI-generated by Stylogeny from the recipe below, and checked against it: the type from Hipster Artisanal Revival, the form from Cottagecore, the composition from Hipster Artisanal Revival. Not a real or historical work.

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.

Cottagecore Hipster Artisanal Revival

Type from Hipster Artisanal Revival: All caps
Wide letterspacing
Colour from Hipster Artisanal Revival: Monochrome
Limited spot colours
Form from Cottagecore: Biomorphic curves
Floral & vegetal
Composition from Hipster Artisanal Revival: Central symmetry
Radial & concentric
Surface from Cottagecore: Paper & letterpress bite

The type

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

Display · Hipster Artisanal Revival

Memory

Jost, standing in for Futura (Paul Renner, Bauer, 1927), as on the Field Notes cover

Text · Cottagecore

An internet-born pastoral aesthetic of cottage gardens, wildflowers, baking and slow rural life, circulated as mood boards, stickers, packaging, book covers and game art. Its link to Arts and Crafts is one of shared ideals (craft, rural simplicity, folk styles as a counter to industrial production), not a direct visual descent. It has been criticised for romanticising rural life and ignoring rural poverty, and for evoking conservative gender roles, Eurocentrism and heteronormativity.

EB Garamond; Cottagecore used Italicised roman title lettering, described on Wikipedia as reminiscent of a Chronicles of Narnia scrawl and Warm serifs and hand lettering

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Hipster Artisanal Revival, with a counter-accent from Cottagecore. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Cottagecore Hipster Artisanal Revival

#f1e8d6 ground · 36%
#1e1c1a ink · 14%
#8e2f25 accent · 18%
#e8c872 accent · 14%
#c4a27a accent · 10%
#7b5e4b accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f1e8d6;
  --ink: #1e1c1a;
  --accent-1: #8e2f25;
  --accent-2: #e8c872;
  --accent-3: #c4a27a;
  --accent-4: #7b5e4b;
  --font-display: "Jost", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "EB Garamond", serif;
}

Use it with care

Hipster Artisanal Revival: The hipster fashion and branding of the same years also borrowed pseudo-Native 'tribal' dress: Adrienne Keene's Native Appropriations (2010) answered the fashion for 'hipster headdresses' by noting that eagle feathers 'have to be earned', and in 2012 the Navajo Nation sued Urban Outfitters over goods sold under the 'Navajo' name. Keep to arrows, triangles and trade-mark devices; do not add feathered headdresses, war bonnets or 'tribal' and 'Navajo' patterns as a heritage shorthand.