Style combination · Pairs well

Out-of-Square Hangul Typography × International Typographic Style

Place a modular out-of-square headline on a strict Swiss grid so the hanging, irregular syllables read as deliberate against an ordered page.

From the research on Out-of-Square Hangul Typography

Mix them and make something Out-of-Square Hangul Typography International Typographic Style

Oversized black geometric Korean lettering fills the top of an off-white poster, with small red and black circular accents. Below it, a large red circle, a blue triangle, a yellow rectangle, and four black horizontal bars occupy compartments divided by thin rules. — AI-generated by Stylogeny from the recipe below, and checked against it: the type from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography, the form from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography, the composition from International Typographic Style. Not a real or historical work.

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.

Out-of-Square Hangul Typography International Typographic Style

Type from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography: Experimental & distorted
Geometric sans
Colour from International Typographic Style: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography: Geometric primitives
Rectilinear
Composition from International Typographic Style: Modular grid
Dynamic asymmetry
Surface from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography: Flat

The type

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

Display · Out-of-Square Hangul Typography

Form

Syne; Out-of-Square Hangul Typography used Ahn Sang-soo typeface and Isang-che, Mir-che and Mano-che

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

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from International Typographic Style, with a counter-accent from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Out-of-Square Hangul Typography International Typographic Style

#f2f0e9 ground · 36%
#111111 ink · 14%
#e1251b accent · 18%
#f2c12e accent · 14%
#1f4e9c accent · 10%
#7a7a7a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f2f0e9;
  --ink: #111111;
  --accent-1: #e1251b;
  --accent-2: #f2c12e;
  --accent-3: #1f4e9c;
  --accent-4: #7a7a7a;
  --font-display: "Syne", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

The two styles

Oversized black and red Korean letterforms fill an off-white vertical cover. A blue ring above a long blue rectangle resembles a lowercase i near the lower left.

1985–present · East Asia Out-of-Square Hangul Typography A Korean typographic movement that frees Hangul from the equal square in which metal and photo type had always set each syllable. Beginning with Ahn Sang-soo's 1985 typeface, jamo keep fixed sizes so syllables vary in height and lines hang from a shared top edge; letters are built from circle, dot and straight stroke, and in posters and the magazine Bogoseo/Bogoseo they are enlarged until they become the picture.

The words “Urban Systems” appear in large black and red lettering at the upper left of an off-white cover. Tall blue, black and grey rectangular blocks rise from the bottom, with fine vertical dividing lines and a red circle at the upper right.

1950–1975 · Central Europe 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.

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