Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Experimental Type: Run type to the edges and partially conceal it
- Type
- Set in Experimental Type's manner (Variable, stretched, dismantled — support with a plain text face), and let Hangul Typography's lettering (Align optical centers and choose deliberately between the square frame and breaking it) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Experimental Type's material (Monochrome plus one color; warps and scanlines); bring in exactly one thing from Hangul Typography (Check ink trap in print and stroke thinning on the actual screen).
- Colour
- Build on #f0eee7, #1c1c19, #3b62ff and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Roughly 534 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Experimental Type Break everything and the way in disappears. Always keep one readable layer.
- Hangul Typography Tracking tight with Latin habits crushes the assembly of consonant and vowel, and the design that maps the structure of sound stops being readable.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Experimental Type (Style, 1980s–) and its accent from Hangul Typography (Style, 1446– / 1980s–). Structural cues: Distorted letterforms; Overlaps; Extreme letterspacing; Tension with legibility. Accent cues, used sparingly: Geometric assembly of phonemes; The square frame and its dismantling; The figurative quality of consonants; Systematic combination. Composition: Run type to the edges and partially conceal it. Type and lettering: Variable, stretched, dismantled — support with a plain text face. Let one material quality come from the second style: Check ink trap in print and stroke thinning on the actual screen. Mood: Rebellion, Exhilaration, Technology, Trust. Color: build on #f0eee7, #1c1c19, #3b62ff with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Experimental Type 1980s– / Style / Avant-garde
Pushes letters from something read toward something seen and felt.
- Hangul Typography 1446– / 1980s– / Style / Type Classification
The design culture of Hangul, a script that maps the structure of sound into geometry. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum set out its combinatory principles; contemporary designers extend them in experiments like talnemokkol, breaking the square frame.
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