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Exhibition Magazine. Concrete editorial monolith.

  • Media
  • Light theme
  • 5 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Exhibition Magazine operates as a printed editorial artifact translated to screen: white canvas, hairline rules, and oversized condensed typography that commands the viewport. The visual system is almost entirely achromatic — color is virtually absent, replaced by the interplay of pure black text, white surfaces, and the grey 1px line that organizes everything. Two type families do all the work: DIN at 90–100px for display and section titles with extremely tight tracking and near-vertical line-height, and a serif (Cochin) for editorial body and descriptions that warms the otherwise clinical grid. Navigation and micro-labels use a tiny 13px all-caps face with generous 0.062em letter-spacing, creating a typographic hierarchy based on scale contrast alone — gargantuan display type against whisper-quiet UI chrome. Components are stripped to their essentials: image cards with no rounded corners, text buttons that are just underlined words, and a full-bleed black footer that closes the page with the same oversized type on inverted grounds.

Screenshot of Exhibition Magazine
Captured from exhibition-magazine.com on October 11, 2026

Exhibition Magazine design system

Exhibition Magazine

Neutrals5

  • All text, nav links, display headings, footer background, card titles

  • Muted surface fills, image placeholder backgrounds, secondary tonal blocks

  • 1px borders, dividers, card outlines, link underlines — the structural skeleton of the layout

  • Subtle warm-tinted card surface — near-white with a hint of warmth, used sparingly

  • Page backgrounds, nav bar, card surfaces, image backgrounds

Try a pairing

Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.

Aa

Paper White on Ink Black

21.00 : 1 contrast

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

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