Risograph Duotone
Two inks, flat and slightly off-register, printed on absorbent stock.
Construction · Riso
Two inks printed one pass at a time and never quite registered: fills sit a pixel or two off their outlines, and the overlap is visible.
Concept shot — generated from this style's terms, the way a designer would present it. The specimen below is the contract: rendered from the exact tokens on this page.
Every style renders this same screen, so the only thing changing between two of them is the style. The component above is the file below, running.
Prompt
Design this interface in the Risograph Duotone style. Exactly two inks on paper, laid down flat with visible grain. Depth is faked by overprinting rather than by shadow, and nothing is anti-aliased into a gradient.
The numbers in this prompt are printed from the tokens below, so it cannot drift from what the specimen renders.
What carries the look
- two ink duotone
- visible paper grain
- flat overprint
- off-register feel
What this style refuses
- gradients
- more than two inks
- soft shadows
- photographic imagery
The refusals are the half that keeps generated interfaces from converging — a prompt that only says what to add gets the default look.
Tokens
Palette
#f3efe4#14120f#faf7ee#1b1815#d6cdb8#332e27#241f1c#f0ebdf#63594c#a2988a#1f4fd8#7f9bff#faf7ee#0a0f26Shape and type
Measured contrast — body 14.19:1 light, 15.72:1 dark; secondary text 5.97:1 and 6.58:1. Every pair clears WCAG AA in both themes, checked on each build.
Specimen · Specimen.tsx
import type { CSSProperties } from "react";
/**
* Vibary · Risograph Duotone
*
* Two inks, flat and slightly off-register, printed on absorbent stock.
*
* One complete product screen, rendered from the token object below —