Style combination · Pairs well

See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints × Underground Comix

Borrow the comic strip and speech balloon, but cleaned up into a few flat inks and turned against the sexism much of the comix canon traded in.

From the research on See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints

Mix them and make something See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints Underground Comix

Beneath large red lettering reading “MAKE SPACE,” comic panels show four women walking through a city, planning around a table, clearing rubble, and relaxing in a lush community garden. The garden includes sunflowers, a greenhouse, bunting, a guitar, a black cat, and a red banner with a female symbol. — AI-generated by Stylogeny from the recipe below, and checked against it: the type from See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints, the form from Underground Comix, the composition from Underground Comix. 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.

See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints Underground Comix

Type from See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints: Hand-lettering
All caps
Colour from See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from Underground Comix: Distortion & exaggeration
Stylised figuration
Composition from Underground Comix: Framed panels
Sequential narrative
Surface from See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints: Flat

Underground Comix avoids flat: this is where the two pull against each other.

The type

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

Display · See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints

Loud

Londrina Solid, standing in for Comic-strip captions and speech balloons in hand-lettered capitals (My Wife Doesn't Work, 1980)

Text · Underground Comix

Self-published, adults-only comic books from the San Francisco counterculture, made outside the Comics Code on the newsstand comic's format. Inside, pages of black pen-and-ink line on white paper, often heavily cross-hatched, crowded with big-footed caricatures and hand-lettered balloons, parody the look of 1940s children's comics while showing sex, drugs and violence; colour is kept for the cover, some of it drawn by psychedelic poster artists.

Newsreader; Underground Comix used Pen-drawn balloon capitals and Mock-vintage comic masthead lettering

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints, with a counter-accent from Underground Comix. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

See Red Women's Workshop Feminist Screenprints Underground Comix

#f4f0e6 ground · 36%
#151515 ink · 14%
#d4262a accent · 18%
#f2c12e accent · 14%
#1f2f6b accent · 10%
#8fb4d4 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f0e6;
  --ink: #151515;
  --accent-1: #d4262a;
  --accent-2: #f2c12e;
  --accent-3: #1f2f6b;
  --accent-4: #8fb4d4;
  --font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
  --font-text: "Newsreader", serif;
}

Use it with care

Underground Comix: Much of the canon trades in racial caricature, such as a Black woman drawn as an 'African native' caricature, and in graphic sexual violence against women and casual misogyny, which the women's comics of 1970 and 1972 answered in their own books: borrow the hatched line, the crowded panel and the candour, not the stereotypes, and give every character the same anatomy and drawing care. The characters and mastheads (Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, the Freak Brothers, the Checkered Demon, the Zap logo) still belong to their makers and estates: draw your own, never ask an image model for a named cartoonist's hand, living or dead, and never present a generated page as a vintage comic.