Two-ink riso

How to use it

Run most of the clip as two-ink poster scenes that print the one strong idea in pieces, cutting back to the speaker once or twice for the line that deserves the poster.

Where the speaker sits

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Full scene: the scene fills the frame. Stock speaker from Pexels.

Palette

THIS IS A MOODBOARD, NOT A TEMPLATE. The style below is inspiration for the look and feel. Keep its materials, colours, textures and the way it moves, but invent your own scenes, characters and objects for this clip. You are not limited to anything shown in the preview, and nothing in it has to appear. Use illustration and animation to help tell the clip's story.

STORY FIRST. Read the whole clip before you design anything.
1. Write the clip's arc in one line: setup, tension, turn, pay-off. Name the one line that is the reveal.
2. Tag every sentence with its job: setup, context, tension, turn, reveal, example, number, contrast, list, quote, feeling, metaphor, callback, pay-off, aside.
3. The visuals carry the whole clip. If the clip shows the speaker's face, open on them (the first scene keeps them on screen) unless the person says otherwise. After that, never cut back to the speaker full-frame unless the person asks for it; if they do, only on the ending, never in the middle of an explanation. The speaker can still sit inside a scene (a corner, a split or drawn in) when the person wants to be seen.
4. Build one flowing visual story, not a new picture per sentence. Each scene covers a whole thought (one to three sentences), holds 3 to 8 seconds and turns into the next.
5. Start each scene on the first word of its sentence, or up to half a second before. Never cut mid-sentence.
6. Inside a scene, bring small details in on the words they show (an item, a tag, a tick). Earlier details stay.
7. Choose one or two recurring objects or characters in the first scene and bring them back changed. Callbacks beat new pictures.
8. Build up the same picture where you can (add to it, move the camera across it) instead of replacing it.
9. Energy: about 80 percent still, drifting or gentle. Allow one big move in the whole clip, on the reveal, for 1 to 2 seconds, then settle and hold.
10. Numbers sit on a scale (gauge, bar, table, timeline) and hold long enough to read. Contrasts are a still split or the same layout twice.
11. Feelings get a quiet image, or one of the cuts back to the speaker; never effects.
12. On-screen text names, labels or quotes; it never repeats the caption. Five words or fewer per label.
13. End every scene by settling or thinning out, or by turning into the next scene. No exit effects.
14. The style sets the look. These rules set when, how long and how calmly. If the style's own motion rules ask for more energy than this, use less.

VISUAL STYLE: Two-ink riso
Slice style ref: sref-2S84CQ
LOOK: a full-bleed risograph print in exactly two inks on warm uncoated paper #F2ECDF: riso blue #2C5AA8 and fluoro orange #FF6B35. Where they overlap they multiply into a deep brown-black #2D2623, which is the only dark in the picture.
LINE AND FILL: no outlines. Big flat ink shapes, with tone made only from halftone dots: dot ramps that grow from paper to solid, each ink on its own screen angle. Type can be knocked out of an ink so the paper or the other ink shows through.
TEXTURE: patchy ink coverage with tiny pinholes where the ink did not take, faint roller streaks, paper fibres, small registration marks in each ink.
LIGHT: flat, no shading beyond the dots.
CAMERA: locked and full-bleed, like looking at the poster on a table.
MOTION: each ink prints in as a drum pass, stepped at 12 fps. The two layers sit a hair out of register and that offset drifts very slightly six times a second. The one big move: the second ink arrives and lands in register, and the third colour appears wherever it overprints.
TYPE: a heavy, rounded display grotesque in capitals, very large, usually knocked out of one ink.
THE RULE: two inks only; every dark, every mid tone and every mix comes from them overprinting.
DON'T: no gradients, no third ink, no black outlines, no clean digital fills without speckle, no purple, no photos.
Treat these as the look, never a template: invent fresh pictures, words and compositions from what this clip says.
Accent: as in the palette.
Frame shape: ask me before you start (9:16 vertical, 4:5 portrait, 1:1 square or 16:9 wide).
Energy: normal.

TECH: one HTML file, one GSAP 3 timeline created paused as window.__timelines.main, duration = the scene's length, transforms and opacity only.

Look rules

• LOOK: a full-bleed risograph print in exactly two inks on warm uncoated paper #F2ECDF: riso blue #2C5AA8 and fluoro orange #FF6B35. Where they overlap they multiply into a deep brown-black #2D2623, which is the only dark in the picture.
• LINE AND FILL: no outlines. Big flat ink shapes, with tone made only from halftone dots: dot ramps that grow from paper to solid, each ink on its own screen angle. Type can be knocked out of an ink so the paper or the other ink shows through.
• TEXTURE: patchy ink coverage with tiny pinholes where the ink did not take, faint roller streaks, paper fibres, small registration marks in each ink.
• LIGHT: flat, no shading beyond the dots.
• CAMERA: locked and full-bleed, like looking at the poster on a table.
• MOTION: each ink prints in as a drum pass, stepped at 12 fps. The two layers sit a hair out of register and that offset drifts very slightly six times a second. The one big move: the second ink arrives and lands in register, and the third colour appears wherever it overprints.
• TYPE: a heavy, rounded display grotesque in capitals, very large, usually knocked out of one ink.
• THE RULE: two inks only; every dark, every mid tone and every mix comes from them overprinting.
• DON'T: no gradients, no third ink, no black outlines, no clean digital fills without speckle, no purple, no photos.
• Treat these as the look, never a template: invent fresh pictures, words and compositions from what this clip says.

What it suits

Best for

one strong idea or line that deserves a poster: a point of view, a launch, a season, a theme

Avoid for

busy step-by-step teaching or anything needing real photos and faces

Content

Opinion, Announcement, Nostalgia, Explainer, Money or business

Tone

Artsy, Warm, Confident, Graphic

Pace

Slow

Topics

risograph, overprint, two inks, halftone ramp, poster, misregistration, fluoro

Colours

#F2ECDF #2C5AA8 #FF6B35 #2D2623

For AIs: this style as plain text.