Stylogeny combining Minimalist Graphic Design × Suprematism

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Minimalist Graphic Design × Suprematism

Both trust a few shapes on an empty field; borrow the Suprematist diagonal to animate a static minimal layout.

From the research on Suprematism

Mix them and make something Minimalist Graphic Design Suprematism

StillMinimalist Graphic × Suprematism1965 · 1915
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Suprematism, their arrangement from Minimalist Graphic Design, the finish from Suprematism. 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.

Minimalist Graphic Design Suprematism

Type from Minimalist Graphic Design
Colour from Minimalist Graphic Design
Form from Suprematism
Composition from Minimalist Graphic Design
Surface from Suprematism

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The type

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

Display · Minimalist Graphic Design

Still

Inter Tight, standing in for Helvetica Neue (light weights)

Text · Suprematism

Kazimir Malevich's non-objective art, unveiled with the Black Square at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd in 1915, reduced painting to pure geometric planes floating in white, infinite space. Through the UNOVIS collective in Vitebsk and El Lissitzky's books it became a graphic language of squares, bars and circles tilted on dynamic diagonals, the seedbed of Constructivist layout.

Hanken Grotesk; Suprematism used Russian grotesques (rubleny shrift) as set by Lissitzky and Hand-drawn lithographic lettering of UNOVIS publications

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Minimalist Graphic Design, with a counter-accent from Suprematism. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Minimalist Graphic Design Suprematism

  • #ffffff ground · 36%
  • #1a1a1a ink · 14%
  • #d9d6d0 accent · 18%
  • #e9b824 accent · 14%
  • #8c8a86 accent · 10%
  • #cf2a27 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffffff;
  --ink: #1a1a1a;
  --accent-1: #d9d6d0;
  --accent-2: #e9b824;
  --accent-3: #8c8a86;
  --accent-4: #cf2a27;
  --font-display: "Inter Tight", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Hanken Grotesk", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

A minimalist white poster has the widely spaced black words “STILL FARTHER” near the upper left and a large black circle in the lower-right area. Most of the surface is empty white space. 1965–present · Global / networked Minimalist Graphic Design Modernism reduced to its barest means, informed by 1960s Minimal art and Japanese emptiness: one image or line of type, vast white or neutral space, a monochrome or near-monochrome palette and meticulous typographic detail. From ECM record sleeves to Muji and Apple packaging, it signals quality, calm and confidence by withholding rather than adding. An off-white cover features a large red circle crossed by a thick diagonal black bar, with a red square, blue triangle, yellow bar, and small green circle. The black uppercase word “DRIFT” angles upward across the upper portion. 1915–1925 · Eastern Europe Suprematism Kazimir Malevich's non-objective art, unveiled with the Black Square at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd in 1915, reduced painting to pure geometric planes floating in white, infinite space. Through the UNOVIS collective in Vitebsk and El Lissitzky's books it became a graphic language of squares, bars and circles tilted on dynamic diagonals, the seedbed of Constructivist layout.

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