Nine printed blocks stacked into the MAKR logo: M and A on top of K and R, with a cube, a cylinder and two flat blocks around them.
The one rule
Everything Overprint prints sits on one of two layers. The art can be as loud as the volume allows; it just never gets between a reader and a sentence.
Reading layer
Words, controls and data print on opaque plates in sanctioned pairs: WCAG 2.2 AA as the floor, the APCA lookup as the target. It looks the same at every volume, so a form never gets louder than its labels.
Expressive layer
The art lives beside, above or around the reading layer, never under it. The volume dial decides how much of it shows, from none at Quiet to the full poster at Rave.
The volume dial
The same card at Quiet, Studio, Press and Rave. The words do not move; only the ink does. Each frame holds its own volume, whatever your dial says.
Quiet
Fernlight
Fresh by noonStudio
Fernlight
Fresh by noonPress
Fernlight
Fresh by noonRave
Fernlight
Fresh by noonWhere to go
Start here
What Overprint is, the five principles, the install and the Next.js recipe, built from a consumer app that has to compile first.
Colour, type, space, motion
Process inks with their letters and shapes, the papers, the type roles and voices, the dial from Quiet to Rave.
655 tokens
Every --mk-* name with its value in the look you are reading, and its names in Tailwind, TypeScript and Swift.
133 fixtures
The reading layer, live: controls, overlays, forms, layout, navigation, data, content and the brand pieces.
Expressive layer
Halftone, stickers and stamps; panels, balloons and SFX; the wooden blocks. None of it ever lands on a headline.
Built at build time
Open Graph cards, case-study covers from project data, printed photos and print-ready posters and one-pagers.
Brand
The evolved 2 × 2 in three options, at every size it prints, with its lockups, clear space and don'ts.
Turn every dial
Volume, colourway, paper, voice, second ink, contrast, motion and sound on a real page. Copy the look when you like it.
The fifteen rules
Two layers, contrast, targets, calm motion. Each rule is a test the press check runs on every look.
Proof, not promises
The token pipeline measures every sanctioned pair in every look before a component exists; the press check then walks the rendered result.
Colourways
Pick one in the header and this whole site reprints, the ink field beside this list included. Client colourways come from the helper and pass the same checks, no favours.