Style combination · Contrasts

Fileteado Porteño × International Typographic Style

Set one painted filete scroll against a strict grid and neutral sans so the ornament reads as a deliberate, celebratory interruption.

From the research on Fileteado Porteño

Mix them and make something Fileteado Porteño International Typographic Style

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Fileteado Porteño, their arrangement from International Typographic Style, the finish from Fileteado Porteño. 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.

Fileteado Porteño International Typographic Style

Type from Fileteado Porteño: Hand-lettering
Blackletter
Colour from International Typographic Style: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from Fileteado Porteño: Whiplash line
Abundant decoration

International Typographic Style avoids abundant decoration: this is where the two pull against each other, which is the point of the contrast.
Composition from International Typographic Style: Modular grid
Dynamic asymmetry

Fileteado Porteño avoids dynamic asymmetry: this is where the two pull against each other, which is the point of the contrast.
Surface from Fileteado Porteño: Hard offset shadow
Painterly brushwork

The type

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

Display · Fileteado Porteño

Index

Yellowtail, standing in for Letra inglesa (copperplate-derived brush script)

Text · International Typographic Style

A post-war refinement of the New Typography in which the mathematical grid, objective photography and neo-grotesque sans-serifs were used to communicate with clarity and neutrality. Taught at the Basel and Zurich schools, it became the default language of international corporate and institutional communication.

Inter; International Typographic Style used Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from International Typographic Style, with a counter-accent from Fileteado Porteño. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Fileteado Porteño International Typographic Style

#f2f0e9 ground · 36%
#111111 ink · 14%
#e1251b accent · 18%
#f2b705 accent · 14%
#1f4e9c accent · 10%
#7a7a7a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f2f0e9;
  --ink: #111111;
  --accent-1: #e1251b;
  --accent-2: #f2b705;
  --accent-3: #1f4e9c;
  --accent-4: #7a7a7a;
  --font-display: "Yellowtail", cursive;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Fileteado Porteño: Filete porteño is UNESCO-listed intangible heritage (2015) and a living trade: commission or credit fileteadores rather than tracing their published panels, and keep its Argentine emblems and devotional images, such as the Virgin of Luján, in a respectful context.