Style combination · Pairs well

Natural Wine Label Art × Risograph

Both come from the same small-batch maker economy and share a naive drawn idiom; print a short-run cuvée label in two riso inks to add overprint and grain to a felt-pen drawing.

From the research on Natural Wine Label Art

Mix them and make something Natural Wine Label Art Risograph

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Natural Wine Label Art, their arrangement from Natural Wine Label Art, 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.

Natural Wine Label Art Risograph & Indie Print Culture

Type from Natural Wine Label Art: Hand-lettering
Colour from Risograph: Limited spot colours
Fluorescent & neon
Form from Natural Wine Label Art: Stylised figuration
Ornament-free
Composition from Natural Wine Label Art: Isolated object
Single focal point
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 · Natural Wine Label Art

Wow

Caveat, standing in for Hand-scrawled cuvée names in felt pen, crayon or pencil, written by the same hand as the picture (the 'grocery store list doodles' AIGA Eye on Design describes)

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 Natural Wine Label Art. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Natural Wine Label Art Risograph & Indie Print Culture

#f4f1ea ground · 36%
#3255a4 ink · 14%
#ff48b0 accent · 18%
#f08a3c accent · 14%
#f15060 accent · 10%
#e9a3b0 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1ea;
  --ink: #3255a4;
  --accent-1: #ff48b0;
  --accent-2: #f08a3c;
  --accent-3: #f15060;
  --accent-4: #e9a3b0;
  --font-display: "Caveat", cursive;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Natural Wine Label Art: Gut Oggau's family of faces, Jaime Hayón's drawings for it, Jauma's Tikka the Cosmic Cat and Michel Tolmer's characters are owned artwork: invent your own character, do not prompt an image model for a named illustrator's hand, and never present a generated image as a real grower's label. 'Natural' has no legal definition for wine, and French rules even forbid tying the words 'nature' or 'naturel' directly to 'vin'; the Vin Méthode Nature logo is a private mark for growers who sign its charter (validated by the DGCCRF in March 2020), so do not put it on a design for a wine that is not certified. Keeping the legal mentions quiet must not mean leaving out the label's mandatory particulars.