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MUBI Notebook. Poster wall, broadsheet column.

  • Media
  • Light theme
  • 14 colors
  • 1 typeface

MUBI Notebook is a daily film publication that reads like a printed broadsheet with a cinema lobby attached. Paper #ffffff pages carry a four-column grid of square-cornered stills, each under a Riforma 24px/500 headline at -0.6px tracking, and every word on the site is Riforma. Colour belongs to the films: posters and stills are saturated while the interface stays Ink #000000, Screening Gray #323232 and Byline Gray #9b9b9b. Marquee Blue #001489 is kept to the newsletter button and inline article links, and Issue Red #d71b1d appears only on the print magazine page. Tag pages shift to a Wall Gray #eaeaea field hung with split poster cards, and the Explore index opens as a dark Screening Gray panel.

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Screenshot of MUBI Notebook
Captured from mubi.com on November 5, 2026

MUBI Notebook design system

MUBI Notebook

Brand1

  • Join button and inline article links — a deep ink blue that marks the few things to act on inside gray prose

Accent1

  • Subscribe Now button and 15px borders around issue numerals on the magazine page — print sales get their own colour

Neutrals12

  • Article H1, home card headlines, wordmark and bylines — pure black reserved for the loudest words

  • Fill behind the 732x374px Featured stills while they load, so a slow image reads as a dark frame

  • Article body text, the Notebook masthead, poster-card titles, the 4px quote bar and the Explore overlay field

  • Outlined Show More button and pager numerals — quiet controls that stay behind the editorial text

  • Now Showing and Log In labels, search and menu icons in the top bar

  • Dates, poster-card authors, article decks and the Notebook half of two-tone page headings

  • The 1px outline of search and email inputs, a touch darker than the page rules

  • Tag-page field behind poster cards, the footer block and 1px hairlines under the nav and article header

  • The single 224px full-width newsletter band that breaks the home grid

  • Page canvas, poster-card text panels, card badges and type over images

  • Top wash on card images so the white category badge holds on any still

  • Foot wash under the lead feature capitals, darkest at the bottom edge

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

Aa

Paper on Marquee Blue

14.37 : 1 contrast

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

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