Style combination · Pairs well

Hipster Artisanal Revival × Risograph

The same small-batch maker economy; print the badge in one riso ink on uncoated stock to get real ink grain instead of a distress overlay.

From the research on Hipster Artisanal Revival

Mix them and make something Hipster Artisanal Revival Risograph

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Hipster Artisanal Revival, their arrangement from Hipster Artisanal Revival, 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.

Hipster Artisanal Revival Risograph & Indie Print Culture

Type from Hipster Artisanal Revival: All caps
Wide letterspacing
Colour from Risograph: Limited spot colours
Fluorescent & neon

Hipster Artisanal Revival avoids fluorescent & neon: this is where the two pull against each other.
Form from Hipster Artisanal Revival: Emblems & badges
Geometric primitives
Composition from Hipster Artisanal Revival: Central symmetry
Radial & concentric
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 · Hipster Artisanal Revival

Hello

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

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 Hipster Artisanal Revival. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Hipster Artisanal Revival Risograph & Indie Print Culture

#f4f1ea ground · 36%
#3255a4 ink · 14%
#ff48b0 accent · 18%
#8e2f25 accent · 14%
#f15060 accent · 10%
#c4a27a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1ea;
  --ink: #3255a4;
  --accent-1: #ff48b0;
  --accent-2: #8e2f25;
  --accent-3: #f15060;
  --accent-4: #c4a27a;
  --font-display: "Jost", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-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.

The two styles

A distressed rust-red oval badge on cream paper contains snowcapped mountains, pine trees, a lake, and a sun with radiating rays. The words “WILDSTONE SUPPLY” sit above crossed arrows, a small pine tree, and “EST. 2018.”

2007–2018 · North America, Global / networked Hipster Artisanal Revival The trade-mark look of the 2007–2018 craft boom, which dressed new coffee roasters, breweries and stationers as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century firms. A centred one-ink badge holds a line-drawn icon, crossed arrows or an X with words in its quadrants, a triangle and an 'Est.' date for a firm a year old, in tracked sans capitals and a flowing script on kraft, cream or chalkboard. Stock 'Hipster Badges' made it a template; by 2012–13 trend reports and parodies called it overdone, and by 2018 it had matured into colourless, detailed monoline badges that left the arrows and scripts behind.

Large pink lettering reading “PLANT CLUB” sits above a blue cat looking upward among potted houseplants and trailing vines. Bright yellow and pink offset shapes and grainy ink textures cover the cream background.

2008–present · Global / networked Risograph & Indie Print Culture 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.

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