What it decides for you

• Print on warm paper, not white: use a cream stage (around #F4ECD8) with near-black text so every colour reads like ink soaked into paper rather than pixels on a screen.
• Commit to two punchy riso inks only — a fluorescent pink and an electric blue — and let them overprint: stack semi-transparent blocks of each colour with mix-blend-mode multiply so the overlaps make a third hue.
• Embrace misregistration: offset duplicated headlines and colour blocks by a few pixels so they look slightly off-press, and tilt badges, stickers and cards by small rotations to feel cut out and glued down.
• Layer grain and halftone everywhere: build dot fields with repeating CSS radial-gradients and lean on chunky black hairline borders so flat colour never feels too clean.
• Set type loud and structural: a heavy display face (Archivo Black) in big, tight, often uppercase headlines against a plain geometric body, with letter-spaced micro-labels acting like rubber-stamp captions.
• Make every cover a colour block, not a photo: render zine issues as duotone halftone rectangles with stamped titles so the grid stays graphic, cheap-to-print and unmistakably risograph.

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