theme
Poster.
Flood colour, black borders, and a hard shadow with no blur in it. Titles in caps, because a poster shouts.
Luna Reyes
Songs, dates, and the mailing list.
The ground is a flood of colour rather than a neutral. White blocks sit on it inside a two pixel black border with a four pixel black shadow offset down and right, and nothing about that shadow is soft: it is a printed drop shadow, not a lighting effect.
Titles are set in caps by the preset, so the page reads at a distance and holds together in a screenshot. It ships flooded in violet with a yellow accent, and the Musician starter swaps that for a near black ground and a poster yellow, set in Bricolage Grotesque.
Use it when the page is one announcement. It is a hard theme to be quiet in, which is the correct amount of difficulty for a page about a release.
what it sets
Every value, out of the preset.
- page
- #6d4aff
- block surface
- #ffffff
- text
- #ffffff
- accent
- #ffd82e
- hairline
- #111111
- corner
- 10px
- block shadow
- 4px 4px 0 #111111
- block border
- 2px solid #111111
- alignment
- centred
- titles
- capitals
- fonts that suit it
- Bricolage Grotesque, Archivo, Space Grotesk
- patterns that suit it
- Halftone, Stripes, Dither
other themes
- PrintNear white, black rules, square corners, titles in caps. Nothing floats, nothing glows, nothing fades.
- Frosted GlassA deep gradient behind blocks you can see through. The background is the design, and the blocks get out of its way.
- LedgerRuled paper, flat panels, one cobalt accent. The theme for a page that wants to look considered rather than loud.
questions
Straight answers.
- Why is my text in capitals?
- Poster sets titles in caps as part of the preset. It is what makes the page read from across a room.
- Can I use my own colours?
- Yes, and it is the point. Your page colour becomes the flood and your ink drives the type, while the black borders and the hard shadow stay.
- Which starter uses it?
- Musician, on a near black ground with a poster yellow accent, set in Bricolage Grotesque.