Style combination · Pairs well

Polish Information Picture Book × Risograph

The activity-book strand of the idiom, black line and one or two flat colours on white, prints well in two or three riso inks for a small-run children's workbook or museum trail.

From the research on Polish Information Picture Book (Dwie Siostry)

Mix them and make something Polish Information Picture Book Risograph

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Polish Information Picture Book, their arrangement from Polish Information Picture Book, 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.

Polish Information Picture Book (Dwie Siostry) Risograph & Indie Print Culture

Type from Polish Information Picture Book: Hand-lettering
All caps
Colour from Risograph: Limited spot colours
Fluorescent & neon

Polish Information Picture Book avoids fluorescent & neon: this is where the two pull against each other.
Form from Polish Information Picture Book: Stylised figuration
Pictogram
Composition from Polish Information Picture Book: All-over field
Horror vacui
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 · Polish Information Picture Book

Yay!

Londrina Solid; Polish Information Picture Book used Mrs White and Cartographer

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 Polish Information Picture Book. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Polish Information Picture Book (Dwie Siostry) Risograph & Indie Print Culture

#f4f1ea ground · 36%
#3255a4 ink · 14%
#ff48b0 accent · 18%
#e7b941 accent · 14%
#f15060 accent · 10%
#e0876a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1ea;
  --ink: #3255a4;
  --accent-1: #ff48b0;
  --accent-2: #e7b941;
  --accent-3: #f15060;
  --accent-4: #e0876a;
  --font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Polish Information Picture Book (Dwie Siostry): The leading authors are living, named illustrators whose books are in copyright, so draw your own figures, maps and lettering instead of asking an image model for the Mizielińskis', Bajtlik's or Karski's hand, and never present a generated spread as a page from Mapy, Mamoko or another Dwie Siostry book. Picture atlases sum up whole countries in a few small figures: show people through what they do, make and celebrate, ask people from a country to check its spread, and avoid reducing a culture to costume, cliché or skin colour.