The Rule

Blei

One object, one word, flat colour. The name is drawn, not set: heavy, warm, a little uneven, with a hard shadow.

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Brand Guidelines

The object is hero. It must be rendered with high contrast, flat lighting, and hard shadows. The typography is hand-painted lithography; use Archivo Ultra-Expanded (900 weight) with an SVG turbulence filter to simulate bleeding ink edges. A single dark background anchors the bright object.

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What breaks it

Adding gradients, complex backgrounds, descriptive paragraphs, and modern typesetting completely undermines Plakatstil (Poster Style). The movement was a direct rebellion against Art Nouveau clutter, relying entirely on the visual shock of a single oversized product and its brand name.

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