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LDH-P093 · minimal geometry

Black Sun, Tight Leading

Leading the stripes home.

Vertical retro stripes in cream, gold, orange, coral, teal, and navy, with a large black semicircle entering from the left. Minimal geometry.

The Story

Late afternoon before a storm, the sky over the lagoon arranges its colors in tight vertical ranks while one black curve of cloud shoulders in from the west. Hurricane-season skies spend their whole drama budget nightly. Typesetters call the space between lines of type leading, and measure it precisely; these stripes run tight, and the black curve is the heaviest mark in the field.

The Making

  • Stripe field set in Illustrator with column spacing treated as type leading - even, measured, unbroken.
  • The black semicircle placed as a single hard shape entering from the left margin.
  • Whole field lightly distressed in Photoshop; print-prepped at 300 dpi.

Palette

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8 × 10 print - $20 · 2 for $35 · 3 for $50

Black Sun, Tight Leading - print thumbnail+Pinstripe Frond - pairs well with Black Sun, Tight Leading+Petal System - pairs well with Black Sun, Tight LeadingPairs well with Pinstripe Frond and Petal System - 2 for $35, 3 for $50.

Printed at full print quality, ready to frame. Stickers and art cards carry the motto: Leading the stripes home.

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Every print comes with its story card.

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Every print made here heads out into the world: a hallway in Ohio, a kitchen in Oregon, a desk somewhere cold. If this one landed with you, drop a pin and put your town on the map.

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