How do you handle keep the move, change the ground?

Copy the palette and stock and you have made a derivative. The ALOHA/MAHALO ref was red on cream. Here two words alternate in a teal-to-cream split-fountain.

How do you handle one finish does the talking?

Two finishes on a notecard compete; the eye has nowhere to land. One primary finish carries the piece; type and stock stay quiet around it.

Design exercise · Notecards · Peppermint

Stacked gradient

The ALOHA/MAHALO ref was red on cream. Here two words alternate in a teal-to-cream split-fountain.

Notecards for Print Peppermint design exercise with a neat stack of 12 slim notecards 2×3.

TechniquesLetterpress StocksHyacinth Cotton · 32pt

Two rules

01Keep the move, change the ground. The ALOHA/MAHALO ref was red on cream. Here two words alternate in a teal-to-cream split-fountain.
02One finish does the talking. One primary finish carries the piece; type and stock stay quiet around it.

Stacked gradient, teal to cream — macro, by Print Peppermint — Two stacked cards where the split-fountain shades from teal to near-cream inside the letters.

Start from these materials

Same paper, foil and finish, locked in — nothing of this piece artwork comes with it.

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Stacked gradient

Two rules

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