Style combination · Contrasts

Extinction Rebellion Graphics × Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

Both are crowd identities anyone may reproduce, but XR's Art Group designed a kit (hourglass symbol, FUCXED capitals, woodcut blocks, twelve colours), while the green wave grew from one found object, one colour and handmade lettering; choose a designed system or a single wearable sign.

From the research on Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

Mix them and make something Extinction Rebellion Graphics Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics, their arrangement from Extinction Rebellion Graphics, the finish from Extinction Rebellion Graphics. 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.

Extinction Rebellion Graphics Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

Type from Extinction Rebellion Graphics: All caps
Type as image
Colour from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics: Emblems & badges
Pictogram
Composition from Extinction Rebellion Graphics: Central symmetry
Full bleed
Surface from Extinction Rebellion Graphics: 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 · Extinction Rebellion Graphics

Wake

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 · Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

The graphics of Latin America's feminist tide, a mass movement since Ni Una Menos (Buenos Aires, 3 June 2015) and the 2018 'marea verde' for legal abortion, though its scarf dates from 2003. Its identity is an object and a colour: a green triangle of cloth printed in white with the Campaign's emblem and slogan, tied to necks, wrists and bags until a crowd turns green. Around it: slogans hand-lettered on cardboard and walls, violet for feminism, linocut posters, and in Mexico purple antimonumentas, Venus signs with a raised fist lettered with demands and the names of murdered women.

Oswald; Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics used The Campaign's white print on the green scarf and Hand-lettered placards in marker or paint on cardboard and white board, in capitals or plain handwriting, often framed by Spanish opening and closing question and exclamation marks ('¿TE PARECEMOS MUCHAS? ¡NOS FALTAN MILES!!', 8M march, Mexico City, 2020)

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics, with a counter-accent from Extinction Rebellion Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Extinction Rebellion Graphics Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

#ffffff ground · 36%
#141414 ink · 14%
#00964b accent · 18%
#c80082 accent · 14%
#e46fae accent · 10%
#6b3fa0 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffffff;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #00964b;
  --accent-2: #c80082;
  --accent-3: #e46fae;
  --accent-4: #6b3fa0;
  --font-display: "Alfa Slab One", serif;
  --font-text: "Oswald", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

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.

Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave): This is the living language of a movement against femicide and for abortion rights whose subjects are real women, many murdered or disappeared, and whose families raised the antimonumentas and wrote the names on them: do not reuse victims' names, photographs, pink crosses or the antimonumentas as decoration, merchandise or a backdrop for a brand. The green scarf is the emblem of the Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito and Ni Una Menos is a collective; do not put their emblem, slogan or name on your own products, fundraising or advertising, or dress a company's message in green and violet to borrow the movements' credibility. The scarf is still contested: it has been banned in some schools, wearing it can bring backlash, it is answered by the anti-abortion pañuelo celeste, and Argentina's legal-abortion law of 2020 has faced calls for repeal, so do not use green as a neutral 'hope' colour where it will be read as a political position. Never present a generated image as documentation of a real protest.