Stylogeny combining PC Music Graphics × Y2K Futurism

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PC Music Graphics × Y2K Futurism

Same chrome, gloss and 3D renders, but Y2K believed in the millennium's technology; PC Music quotes the gloss as a product with a straight face and a pun.

From the research on PC Music Graphics

Mix them and make something PC Music Graphics Y2K Futurism

OrbitPC Music Graphics × Y2K Futurism2013 · 1997
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Y2K Futurism, their arrangement from PC Music Graphics, the finish from Y2K Futurism. 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.

PC Music Graphics Y2K Futurism

Type from Y2K Futurism
Colour from PC Music Graphics
Form from Y2K Futurism
Composition from PC Music Graphics
Surface from Y2K Futurism

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The type

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

Display · Y2K Futurism

Orbit

Michroma, standing in for Eurostile Extended

Text · PC Music Graphics

The release artwork of London's PC Music label (2013-2023) and its immediate circle (Diamond Wright, Sophie, Timothy Luke): early hyperpop that treats a song as a polished synthetic product, not the later glitchy, maximalist hyperpop. One object, often a 3D render or a retouched portrait, gleams on a plain ground: plastic, milled aluminium, a pink capsule, a blue disc. Ideas are taken literally and pushed until strange, with puns on brands and computer culture. Dazed called the look 'bouncy, shiny, commercial, plastic, unnatural, metallic'.

Inter; PC Music Graphics used Custom display lettering after Rudolf Koch and Berthold Wolpe, with a Renaissance, woodcut feel and Comic Sans and other early-web system defaults, quoted knowingly

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from PC Music Graphics, with a counter-accent from Y2K Futurism. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

PC Music Graphics Y2K Futurism

  • #ffffff ground · 36%
  • #0000ff ink · 14%
  • #e0151f accent · 18%
  • #1f6fff accent · 14%
  • #ff9ccf accent · 10%
  • #b4f02e accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffffff;
  --ink: #0000ff;
  --accent-1: #e0151f;
  --accent-2: #1f6fff;
  --accent-3: #ff9ccf;
  --accent-4: #b4f02e;
  --font-display: "Michroma", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

A transparent heart-shaped bottle filled with pink liquid and bubbles sits on a white background, topped by a rounded clear cap and silver collar. Glossy pink balloon-like lettering spells “DREAMGEL” above it, with pink star-shaped glints above the lettering and on the cap. 2013–present · Western Europe, North America PC Music Graphics The release artwork of London's PC Music label (2013-2023) and its immediate circle (Diamond Wright, Sophie, Timothy Luke): early hyperpop that treats a song as a polished synthetic product, not the later glitchy, maximalist hyperpop. One object, often a 3D render or a retouched portrait, gleams on a plain ground: plastic, milled aluminium, a pink capsule, a blue disc. Ideas are taken literally and pushed until strange, with puns on brands and computer culture. Dazed called the look 'bouncy, shiny, commercial, plastic, unnatural, metallic'. A glossy silver-and-blue music player interface titled FLOW features an abstract glass orb wrapped in reflective, brightly tinted rings. Playback controls, a progress slider, a vertical icon toolbar, and four colorful sound preset thumbnails fill the lower and right edges. 1997–2005 · Global / networked Y2K Futurism The optimistic, chrome-plated vision of the future that surrounded the turn of the millennium, spread by consumer electronics, music videos, games, fashion and dot-com branding. Translucent candy-coloured plastics, liquid-metal and bubble 3D renders, lens flares, wide techno sans-serifs and icy silver-and-blue palettes sold the digital age as sleek, fluid and weightless, until the dot-com crash dimmed it.

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