Style combination · Pairs well
Extinction Rebellion Graphics × Pop Art Graphics
The twelve bright colours were influenced by Eduardo Paolozzi; push a slogan poster further towards British Pop with fluorescent flat grounds and one playful image.
Mix them and make something Extinction Rebellion Graphics Pop Art Graphics
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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 Pop Art Graphics
- Type from Extinction Rebellion Graphics
- Colour from Pop Art Graphics
- Form from Extinction Rebellion Graphics
- Composition from Pop Art Graphics
- Surface from Extinction Rebellion Graphics
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The type
Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.
Display · Extinction Rebellion Graphics
Pop
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 · Pop Art Graphics
Pop turned the commercial imagery of post-war consumer culture (comics, packaging, celebrity photographs and advertising) into both its subject and its method. Images are appropriated, enlarged, flattened and repeated; colour is bright and unmodulated; and the printing process itself, from Ben-Day dots to off-register silkscreen, is left visible as a sign of mass production.
Archivo; Pop Art Graphics used Comic-book hand lettering and Franklin Gothic
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The colours
The ground and leading colours come from Pop Art Graphics, with a counter-accent from Extinction Rebellion Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.
Extinction Rebellion Graphics Pop Art Graphics
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#fbf8f0ground · 36% -
#111111ink · 14% -
#ffd400accent · 18% -
#c80082accent · 14% -
#e10600accent · 10% -
#14aa37accent · 8%
As CSS
:root {
--ground: #fbf8f0;
--ink: #111111;
--accent-1: #ffd400;
--accent-2: #c80082;
--accent-3: #e10600;
--accent-4: #14aa37;
--font-display: "Alfa Slab One", serif;
--font-text: "Archivo", 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.
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The two styles
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More combinations
With Extinction Rebellion Graphics
- Victorian Letterpress & Wood Type Pairs well · FUCXED imitates old wood type and Burrill printed XR slogans from real wood type; pair the bright XR grounds with a jobbing printer's condensed wood letters for a hand-set protest poster.
- South African Resistance Poster Pairs well · Both are cheap workshop prints with heavy capitals and an organisation's emblem; XR adds a centrally specified twelve-colour kit where the struggle posters kept to one to three hand-cut inks.
- Corporate Identity Modernism Contrasts · XR borrows a corporate identity's tools (one symbol, a fixed logotype, a colour palette, a design guide) and turns them into a free, hand-printed kit that bans commercial use.
- Stencil Street Art Pairs well · ESP spread the symbol as a street artist before XR adopted it, chalking it on Brick Lane and putting up posters and tiles around East London; pair XR's one-colour emblem and short slogans with stencil street art's hard-edged sprayed figures for walls and pavements.
- Solidarność & Polish Underground Graphics Pairs well · A later movement that also lives on one simple mark anyone can copy by hand; pair a single shared emblem with locally made, cheaply printed posters to keep a campaign recognisable without central design.
- ACT UP & Gran Fury AIDS Activist Graphics Pairs well · A later movement that again reduces its cause to one emblem and a fixed set of slogans in heavy capitals; pair XR's flat colour grounds with ACT UP's facts in small print when a protest poster must both rally and inform.
- Belarusian Protest Illustration (2020 Uprising) Contrasts · Compare a prescribed wood-type and woodcut identity with an illustrator-led shared vocabulary: Belarusian examples do not require XR's oversized headline, carved texture, print workshop or fixed logo. Shared protest tone and few-colour printing are not evidence of descent.
- Solarpunk Contrasts · Both answer the climate crisis: XR shouts alarm in woodcut and flat spot colour; solarpunk paints the hopeful world after it. Pair them for campaigns that move from warning to vision.
With Pop Art Graphics
- International Typographic Style Contrasts · Set one loud appropriated Pop image inside a strict grid with a neutral grotesque so the irony reads as deliberate rather than chaotic.
- Ma & Wabi-sabi Aesthetics Contrasts · Where Pop multiplies glossy commodities, wabi-sabi values the single worn object; use one to puncture the mood of the other.
- Guna Mola Pairs well · Guna women redraw brand logos and cartoons (RCA Victor, Bullwinkle) in reverse appliqué; let that act of translation inspire Pop work, but buy or commission molas rather than imitating them.
- Neo-Brutalism Pairs well · Lift Pop's thick black outlines and flat primaries into UI cards and buttons for a confident, comic-strip interface.
- Risograph & Indie Print Culture Pairs well · Print Ben-Day dot screens in fluorescent pink and yellow riso inks to give Pop's mass-media imagery a small-run, handmade warmth.
- Screenprinted Gig & Alt-Movie Poster Pairs well · Shepard Fairey called Kozik 'the punk rock Warhol'; take Pop's appropriated cartoons and halftones and give them a gig poster's single idea and hand-lettered title.
- Finnish Bold Print (Marimekko Modernism) Pairs well · Contemporaries in saturated flat colour at a giant scale; borrow pop's isolated, enlarged object for a poster, but drop its halftone and irony to keep Marimekko's sincerity.
- Superflat Contrasts · Both turn commodities into art; take Pop's repetition and frontal commodity but swap its halftone and off-register silkscreen for Superflat's smooth vector fills and anime characters, so the print process disappears.