A system for the next layout.
Nonidem / Composition guide
- Structure
- Four equal columns and common edges. Use generous margins. On a narrow screen, reflow the content into one column.
- Message
- One main thought in Archivo 500. Short enough to read as a single shape. Signature at the foot.
- Subject
- Give the work the largest area. Put its number, name and one short line beside it or below it.
- Document
- Title first, then a reading column. Section labels are separate from body text. Never shrink a full document into a poster.
- Type
- Archivo for headings, labels and reading. IBM Plex Mono only for N° numbers. Use a clear change of scale between heading and body.
- Colour
- Ink #191A1B, Paper #FFFFFF, Idem #B8B6B2. Colour belongs to the work. Both grey rectangles stay #B8B6B2 on either background.
- Mark
- Three filled 3u × 4u rectangles with 1u gaps. The third is Ink on Paper and Paper on Ink. No outlines, including print.
- Fixed
- The supplied mark, wordmark, colour meanings, alignment and hierarchy.
- Flexible
- Format, text length, number of pages, image crop and Ink / Paper reversal.