Blimp. Crop marks on a record sleeve, red pen on newsprint.
- Media
- Mixed theme
- 5 colors
- 2 typefaces
Blimp is a Greek album-review zine laid out like a print-shop proof sheet. A near-black #121212 canvas alternates with bands of flat concrete-grey #b3b2ae, and every card is a square-cornered bone-grey #c1c1bd sheet framed by black printer's crop marks instead of borders or shadows. Helvetica Now Display Black runs at 143–146px with 0.8 line-height, letters spread edge to edge so headlines read as poster type, while everything else is 12px uppercase Helvetica Monospaced with +0.24px tracking. The only colour is a scribbled #ea0f32 red pen mark: the favicon, the arrows that point into headlines and the star beside the active item.

Blimp design system
Brand1
Hand-drawn favicon scrawl, arrows pointing into section titles and star bullets beside active labels — a red-pen proofing mark, never a fill
Neutrals4
Page canvas, header and footer bands, archive list, and the giant cropped letters on grey bands
Wordmark, nav and mono text on the dark canvas, plus the fill of every crop-marked album card
Full-width light section bands behind the album grid, the Album of the Week and the Babaluma banner
Album card titles, crop-mark corners and genre labels set on Bone card sheets
Try a pairing
Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.
Aa
Ink on Scribble Red
4.61 : 1 contrast
- Body textPasses AA 4.5
- Large textPasses AA 3
- StrictFails AAA 7











