Style combination · Contrasts
O Pasquim Satirical Press × International Typographic Style
A rigid grid and neutral type are the opposite of Pasquim's dense, hand-lettered, cartoon-filled page.
Mix them and make something O Pasquim Satirical Press International Typographic 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.
O Pasquim Satirical Press International Typographic Style
- Type from O Pasquim Satirical Press
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International Typographic Style avoids eclectic mixing: this is where the two pull against each other, which is the point of the contrast.
- Colour from International Typographic Style
- Form from O Pasquim Satirical Press
- Composition from International Typographic Style
- Surface from O Pasquim Satirical Press
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The type
Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.
Display · O Pasquim Satirical Press
Form
Londrina Solid, standing in for Cartoonists' own hand lettering
Text · International Typographic Style
A post-war refinement of the New Typography in which the mathematical grid, objective photography and neo-grotesque sans-serifs were used to communicate with clarity and neutrality. Taught at the Basel and Zurich schools, it became the default language of international corporate and institutional communication.
Inter; International Typographic Style used Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica
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The colours
The ground and leading colours come from International Typographic Style, with a counter-accent from O Pasquim Satirical Press. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.
O Pasquim Satirical Press International Typographic Style
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#f2f0e9ground · 36% -
#111111ink · 14% -
#e1251baccent · 18% -
#d8cfb4accent · 14% -
#1f4e9caccent · 10% -
#8a8575accent · 8%
As CSS
:root {
--ground: #f2f0e9;
--ink: #111111;
--accent-1: #e1251b;
--accent-2: #d8cfb4;
--accent-3: #1f4e9c;
--accent-4: #8a8575;
--font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
--font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}04
The two styles
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More combinations
With O Pasquim Satirical Press
- Underground Comix Pairs well · Share the hand-drawn, irreverent cartoon line, but borrow Pasquim's column-and-interview newspaper page for a more journalistic result.
- Tropicália Graphic Design Pairs well · A contemporary Brazilian counterculture; Tropicália's colour and collage can lift Pasquim's monochrome page.
- Turkish Weekly Humour Magazines (Gırgır to Uykusuz) Pairs well · Another cartoonist-led weekly where satire and local idiom carry political commentary under pressure.
- Il Male Newspaper-Forgery Satire Pairs well · Another satirical newspaper with cartoons; Il Male differs by forging real papers' front pages rather than publishing an original tabloid.
With International Typographic Style
- Art Nouveau Contrasts · Ornamental curves against an orthogonal grid make a strong deliberate tension.
- Brutalist Web Design Pairs well · Strip the grid to raw HTML defaults to get a rawer, contemporary take on Swiss honesty.
- Psychedelic Poster Contrasts · Its exact opposite on legibility; borrow one swirling element to break a too-cold Swiss layout.
- Japanese Postwar Modernism Pairs well · Add Japanese restraint and emblematic colour fields to the grid for warmth without losing order.
- American Traditional Tattoo Flash Contrasts · Rational grid and sans-serif against sentimental, hand-lettered emblems: one flash motif on a Swiss layout makes a sharp contrast.
- Graffiti & Hip-Hop Graphics Contrasts · Put a single tag or throw-up over a strict Swiss grid to stage the clash between institutional order and a street voice.
- Pop Art Graphics Contrasts · Set one loud appropriated Pop image inside a strict grid with a neutral grotesque so the irony reads as deliberate rather than chaotic.
- Italian Painted Film Poster (Rome Studios) Contrasts · Grid, restraint and photographic objectivity are the opposite of a crowded painted montage.