Riso

Riso is a celebration of the duplicator press: bright, low-fidelity, and unapologetically printed. It mimics the look of running a page through a stencil machine twice, once for federal blue and once for fluorescent pink, on warm recycled paper. The result feels handmade and a little imperfect in the best way, with hard offset shadows standing in for the slight registration drift of real two-color printing. Reach for Riso when you want energy, craft, and personality over corporate polish.

Design principles

• Commit to a strict two-ink palette: federal blue for structure and fluorescent pink for life, plus paper and near-black ink.
• Embrace flatness. Shadows are hard offset blocks, never blurred gradients, echoing misregistered print layers.
• Let type be loud. Oversized headings carry the page; supporting copy stays calm.
• Introduce intentional imperfection: tiny rotations, halftone textures, and overprint blends.
• Keep corners crisp and nearly square so elements read like stamped ink blocks.
• Use whitespace generously so the bright inks never feel muddy.