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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.

Screenshot of Blimp
Captured from blimp.gr on November 6, 2026

Blimp design system

Blimp

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

Background
Text
  • Body textPasses AA 4.5
  • Large textPasses AA 3
  • StrictFails AAA 7

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