Style combination · Pairs well

Global Village Coffeehouse × Risograph

Print the sun, spiral and aroma-swirl motifs in two or three earthy riso inks on uncoated stock to get real ink grain instead of an airbrushed texture filter.

From the research on Global Village Coffeehouse

Mix them and make something Global Village Coffeehouse Risograph

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Global Village Coffeehouse, their arrangement from Global Village Coffeehouse, the finish from Risograph. 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.

Global Village Coffeehouse Risograph & Indie Print Culture

Type from Global Village Coffeehouse: Hand-lettering
Ornamented display
Colour from Risograph: Limited spot colours
Fluorescent & neon

Global Village Coffeehouse avoids fluorescent & neon: this is where the two pull against each other.
Form from Global Village Coffeehouse: Stylised figuration
Cosmic & celestial
Composition from Global Village Coffeehouse: Isolated object
Framed panels
Surface from Risograph: Misregistration & overprint
Grain & noise

The type

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

Display · Global Village Coffeehouse

Home

Jost, standing in for Neo-hieroglyphic and pictograph dingbat and display fonts from 1990s font packs, which Collins reads as a bid for a more 'universal language' (Are.na, 2018)

Text · Risograph

A contemporary culture of zines, art books, posters and prints made on Japanese Risograph stencil duplicators, whose soy-based spot inks (fluorescent pink, yellow, blue, teal) are laid down one drum at a time. Designers embrace the machine's limits: translucent overprints, slight misregistration, grainy coverage and coarse halftones give flat illustration and type a warm, handmade vibrancy at low cost.

Inter; Risograph used Neo-grotesques set large and Monospace and typewriter faces

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Risograph, with a counter-accent from Global Village Coffeehouse. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Global Village Coffeehouse Risograph & Indie Print Culture

#f4f1ea ground · 36%
#3255a4 ink · 14%
#ff48b0 accent · 18%
#d19a35 accent · 14%
#f15060 accent · 10%
#b4532a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1ea;
  --ink: #3255a4;
  --accent-1: #ff48b0;
  --accent-2: #d19a35;
  --accent-3: #f15060;
  --accent-4: #b4532a;
  --font-display: "Jost", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Global Village Coffeehouse: The style borrowed ancient and Indigenous imagery as generic primitivism: Collins records kokopelli figures and 'tribal' and hieroglyph-like icons, at times showing 'tribal' figures carrying executives or serving coffee, and Dwell notes vaguely African masks on café walls; kokopelli is a fertility deity of the Hopi, Zuni and other Southwestern peoples. Draw suns, spirals, cups, plants and invented figures instead, leave out kokopelli, masks and other specific peoples' sacred figures, and never show non-Western people as servants or as an exotic backdrop for a product.