Style combination · Contrasts

Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics × Solidarność

Both are movement identities copied by hand in the street, but Solidarność gathered behind one logo of crowded red letters and printed posters, bulletins and stamps, while the green wave gathers behind a wearable cloth and a colour; letters as the sign against an object as the sign.

From the research on Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)

Mix them and make something Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics Solidarność

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Solidarność, their arrangement from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics, the finish from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics. 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.

Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave) Solidarność & Polish Underground Graphics

Type from Solidarność: Hand-lettering
Tight setting
Colour from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from Solidarność: Folk & sacred symbols
Emblems & badges
Composition from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics: Isolated object
Repetition & rhythm
Surface from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics: Flat

The type

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

Display · Solidarność

Now!

Londrina Solid, standing in for Red hand-drawn capitals on amateur posters of the 1989 election campaign, such as Chylak's 'Głosuj na Solidarność'

Text · Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics

The graphics of Latin America's feminist tide, a mass movement since Ni Una Menos (Buenos Aires, 3 June 2015) and the 2018 'marea verde' for legal abortion, though its scarf dates from 2003. Its identity is an object and a colour: a green triangle of cloth printed in white with the Campaign's emblem and slogan, tied to necks, wrists and bags until a crowd turns green. Around it: slogans hand-lettered on cardboard and walls, violet for feminism, linocut posters, and in Mexico purple antimonumentas, Venus signs with a raised fist lettered with demands and the names of murdered women.

Oswald; Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics used The Campaign's white print on the green scarf and Hand-lettered placards in marker or paint on cardboard and white board, in capitals or plain handwriting, often framed by Spanish opening and closing question and exclamation marks ('¿TE PARECEMOS MUCHAS? ¡NOS FALTAN MILES!!', 8M march, Mexico City, 2020)

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics, with a counter-accent from Solidarność. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave) Solidarność & Polish Underground Graphics

#ffffff ground · 36%
#141414 ink · 14%
#00964b accent · 18%
#d4161f accent · 14%
#e46fae accent · 10%
#a5835c accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffffff;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #00964b;
  --accent-2: #d4161f;
  --accent-3: #e46fae;
  --accent-4: #a5835c;
  --font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
  --font-text: "Oswald", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave): This is the living language of a movement against femicide and for abortion rights whose subjects are real women, many murdered or disappeared, and whose families raised the antimonumentas and wrote the names on them: do not reuse victims' names, photographs, pink crosses or the antimonumentas as decoration, merchandise or a backdrop for a brand. The green scarf is the emblem of the Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito and Ni Una Menos is a collective; do not put their emblem, slogan or name on your own products, fundraising or advertising, or dress a company's message in green and violet to borrow the movements' credibility. The scarf is still contested: it has been banned in some schools, wearing it can bring backlash, it is answered by the anti-abortion pañuelo celeste, and Argentina's legal-abortion law of 2020 has faced calls for repeal, so do not use green as a neutral 'hope' colour where it will be read as a political position. Never present a generated image as documentation of a real protest.

Solidarność & Polish Underground Graphics: This is still a living, contested sign: the NSZZ Solidarność union claims the logo, and a Gdańsk court awarded it the copyright and barred Janiszewski from licensing it, a ruling the Warsaw Court of Appeal upheld (reported in November 2025), while Fydrych won a copyright case over his Orange Alternative dwarf against the city of Wrocław in 2014; do not reuse the logo, or a pastiche of it, for a brand or campaign as if it were public domain. The iconography also carries Catholic symbols and the memory of people killed under martial law and after it (the nine Wujek miners shot in December 1981; Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, murdered by security-service officers in October 1984). Solidaryca is still used for logos and slogans about Poland, freedom and democracy, its designer has criticised its exploitation by right-wing groups, and the union itself has grown increasingly aligned with Law and Justice, so do not use the cross, the candles or the lettering as decoration or to suggest an endorsement nobody gave.