Stylogeny combining Lebanese Civil War Party Poster × Spanish Civil War Poster

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Lebanese Civil War Party Poster × Spanish Civil War Poster

Another civil war fought on the walls by rival factions, but with painted allegorical heroes; set them side by side to see what the straight photograph of a named dead partisan does that a drawn fighter cannot.

From the research on Lebanese Civil War Party Poster

Mix them and make something Lebanese Civil War Party Poster Spanish Civil War Poster

RISELebanese Civil × Spanish Civil1975 · 1936
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Lebanese Civil War Party Poster, their arrangement from Lebanese Civil War Party Poster, the finish from Lebanese Civil War Party Poster. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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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.

Lebanese Civil War Party Poster Spanish Civil War Poster

Type from Spanish Civil War Poster
Colour from Spanish Civil War Poster
Form from Lebanese Civil War Party Poster
Composition from Lebanese Civil War Party Poster
Surface from Lebanese Civil War Party Poster

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The type

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

Display · Spanish Civil War Poster

Rise

Anton, standing in for Hand-drawn condensed grotesque capitals (cartelista lettering)

Text · Lebanese Civil War Party Poster

The posters that some twenty parties and militias pasted on the walls of Beirut and other towns between 1975 and 1990, marking each quarter as one faction's territory. With no state style, every party branded its sheets with its own name, emblem, colours, leader and slogans. The staple was the martyr poster: a public obituary with the fallen partisan's straight photograph, name and dates under a header naming the party, often with its emblem, issued in series. Leftist parties also commissioned painters, and Hizbullah and Amal had martyrs painted into symbolic scenes.

Archivo; Lebanese Civil War Party Poster used Hand-lettered Arabic headlines in Naskh, Thuluth and Ruqʿa styles for martyr names, epithets, slogans and Qur'anic verses and Typeset Arabic Naskh text for the martyr's biography and dates

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Spanish Civil War Poster, with a counter-accent from Lebanese Civil War Party Poster. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Lebanese Civil War Party Poster Spanish Civil War Poster

  • #efe3c6 ground · 36%
  • #141414 ink · 14%
  • #f1b52f accent · 18%
  • #d1281f accent · 14%
  • #5f2b6b accent · 10%
  • #8f8256 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #efe3c6;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #f1b52f;
  --accent-2: #d1281f;
  --accent-3: #5f2b6b;
  --accent-4: #8f8256;
  --font-display: "Anton", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Lebanese Civil War Party Poster: These posters show real people who were killed, many of them young partisans whose families are alive, and some glorify attacks carried out as 'martyrdom operations'; most of the parties that issued them are still active and the war's memory remains contested in Lebanon. Do not use martyr portraits, party emblems or Shiʿa devotional imagery as edgy 'war poster' decoration: cite the posters as historical documents with their archive, have every Arabic line read by a fluent reader, and remember that a party's colours and symbols still align a design with one camp. Hizbullah is banned in several countries, for example the UK (proscribed in full in 2019) and Germany (a 2020 ban on its activity that covers its symbols), where displaying its emblem can itself be an offence. The collections and Maasri's book also lean towards the Left and its Palestinian allies, while the Christian right fought its image war mainly on television, so the leftist look is not the whole war.

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The two styles

A vintage-style poster shows a black-and-white portrait of a young man wearing a patterned scarf, flanked by mirrored armed figures and red flags. Red Arabic lettering appears beneath a cedar-tree emblem with yellow rays, with mountains and buildings across the top and green leafy branches below. 1975–1990 · Middle East & North Africa Lebanese Civil War Party Poster The posters that some twenty parties and militias pasted on the walls of Beirut and other towns between 1975 and 1990, marking each quarter as one faction's territory. With no state style, every party branded its sheets with its own name, emblem, colours, leader and slogans. The staple was the martyr poster: a public obituary with the fallen partisan's straight photograph, name and dates under a header naming the party, often with its emblem, issued in series. Leftist parties also commissioned painters, and Hizbullah and Amal had martyrs painted into symbolic scenes. A painted propaganda-style poster shows a woman in a red headscarf looking upward, with a large foreshortened hand gripping a rifle in the foreground. Behind her are a yellow sun and ranks of armed figures carrying red, yellow and purple flags, beneath the large red word “AVANZA.” 1936–1939 · Southern Europe Spanish Civil War Poster The poster war waged by the Spanish Republic, its unions and its anarchist, communist and socialist parties against Franco's uprising. Unionised commercial artists painted gouache designs that lithographers split onto three or four zinc plates, so foreshortened militiamen, peasants and fists burst from flat red-and-black fields under stacked hand-lettered slogans and party acronyms. Renau's photomontage, Deco polish, caricature and Miró's stencil coexisted.

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