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Surface & texture · Print artefacts

Misregistration & overprint

Inks slightly out of register; transparent overprints.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under surface & texture: what is the material finish?

styles make it: 34
as a defining choice: 3
as a usual one: 7
now and then: 24
avoid it: 5

Styles defined by it 3

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Imagerie d'Épinal & European Bilderbogen1796–1939 · Western Europe, Central EuropeCheap single-sheet popular prints sold by pedlars across 19th-century Europe, led by the Pellerin imagerie at Épinal and the Neuruppin Bilderbogen.
African Wax & Fancy Print1880–present · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western EuropeIndustrially printed cotton made for West and Central African markets, first by Dutch and British mills that imitated Javanese batik with resin resist, and later by African mills.
Risograph & Indie Print Culture2008–present · Global / networkedA 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.

Styles that often use it 7

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 24

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in surface & texture