Stylogeny combining Risograph × Wendingen

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Risograph × Wendingen

Black plus one warm ink on cream suits two-colour riso; assemble heavy capitals and borders from rectangles for zines and posters that echo Wendingen without a letterpress.

From the research on Wendingen & Amsterdam School Typography

Mix them and make something Risograph Wendingen

PUBLICRisograph × Wendingen2008 · 1918
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Wendingen, their arrangement from Wendingen, the finish from Risograph. 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.

Risograph & Indie Print Culture Wendingen & Amsterdam School Typography

Type from Wendingen
Colour from Risograph
Form from Wendingen
Composition from Wendingen
Surface from Risograph

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The type

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

Display · Wendingen

Public

Rubik Mono One; Wendingen used H. Th. Wijdeveld's capitals and meanders assembled from compositors' brass rules and type-case pieces and Architectuur NF (Nick Curtis, Nick's Fonts, 2006), a digital revival of the rule-built letters of Wijdeveld's 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright issue, with his meander ornaments

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

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Risograph, with a counter-accent from Wendingen. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Risograph & Indie Print Culture Wendingen & Amsterdam School Typography

  • #f4f1ea ground · 36%
  • #3255a4 ink · 14%
  • #ff48b0 accent · 18%
  • #c4561e accent · 14%
  • #f15060 accent · 10%
  • #b8913a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1ea;
  --ink: #3255a4;
  --accent-1: #ff48b0;
  --accent-2: #c4561e;
  --accent-3: #f15060;
  --accent-4: #b8913a;
  --font-display: "Rubik Mono One", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Inter", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

Large pink lettering reading “PLANT CLUB” sits above a blue cat looking upward among potted houseplants and trailing vines. Bright yellow and pink offset shapes and grainy ink textures cover the cream background. 2008–present · Global / networked Risograph & Indie Print Culture 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. A symmetrical geometric poster in rust orange, ochre, black and cream features a rising semicircular sun with angular rays above the large word “HORIZON.” Stepped shapes, vertical bars and small squares fill an elaborate border on a grainy, aged-paper background. 1918–1932 · Western Europe Wendingen & Amsterdam School Typography The graphic language of Wendingen (1918–1932), monthly of the Amsterdam architects' society Architectura et Amicitia, and its editor H. Th. Wijdeveld: the Amsterdam School's brick Expressionism in print. Wijdeveld built heavy capitals and meanders from compositors' brass rules and centred them in thick rule frames on square, Japanese-sewn pages; invited artists drew the covers. The School also built such capitals in brick and on bridge nameplates. Avant-garde covers, such as El Lissitzky's Proun (1921 no. 11, out 1922) and Vilmos Huszár's De Stijl design (1929), sit outside the house style.

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