# Visual style: zine

Risograph zine / DIY poster — misregistered color layers, halftone dots, a tightly limited palette, handmade print grit. Indie-publishing texture over polish. For culture decks, design talks, indie brands, anything wanting a printed, hand-assembled feel.

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## 1. Shape & decoration

- Shape language: cut-and-paste blocks, offset color shapes, rough frames; outlines in a near-black ink tone. Corner radius low or zero — print-flat, not soft-digital.
- Composition geometry: rotated pasted-on blocks (slight skew) building the collage stage; a torn-strip band as the section divider; an oversized halftone shape bleeding behind the content; a photocopy frame or taped corner anchoring the focal block; column scraps at mixed widths.
- Decoration: the riso print artifacts — subtle visible color-layer misregistration, halftone-dot `<pattern>` texture, overlapping color blocks that imply another color where they cross. Texture is the decoration.
- Whitespace: poster-like — bold focal blocks with raw margins; deliberate roughness over clean alignment.

## 2. Typography character

- Punk-DIY contrast: a heavy poster display face for headlines, a plain readable sans for body, monospace for annotation (typewriter / photocopier feel).
- Big headline tension against quiet body; slight intentional looseness reads as hand-set rather than mechanical.

> Families are chosen at confirmation `g`; this style asks for a display-poster × plain-sans × monospace-annotation *character*.

## 3. Using the deck's colors

- A tightly limited spot palette (riso logic) sits on a warm paper field; a dominant ink pairing does most of the work and any additional spot color appears selectively.
- Color is laid as flat spot fills, not gradients; overlap and offset of the same small ink set create depth and extra-color illusions. Scarcity and overlap, not variety.

> HEX values come from confirmation `e`; this style governs the flat-spot, misregistered-overlay discipline — it names no colors.

## 4. Texture / elevation

- Flat print, no digital elevation. Depth from layer offset and halftone grain, not shadows. Warm-paper grain via faint texture / low-opacity halftone is on-brand; avoid drop shadows and slick gradients.

## 5. Paired image-rendering

`screen-print` — duotone / spot-ink imagery that shares the riso print aesthetic.

## 6. Illustration propensity

**core** — riso / halftone spot imagery is part of the zine's print grit; with no user steer, default to recommending a coherent spot-illustration family. Default *lean* only — heaviness and placement stay Strategist judgment, an explicit user request wins either way, and `image_usage: none` writes no illustration rows.
