EXP·003 Overprint — a risograph misregistration design experiment with pointer-driven ink channel split and halftone specimens

Design Lab · Experiment 003 · risograph

Two fluorescent inks, one pass, never quite registered. Move the pointer and the pink and blue plates slip apart — then snap home when you centre. The whole page is a two-colour press.

2 inks · ∞ overlaps
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[00]PRESS SHEET

a riso job is a contract with the machine · here is ours

Inks
Fluoro Pink + Federal Blue · overprint to a third
Stock
warm newsprint · 5% turbulence grain
Screen
halftone dots · multiply light / screen dark
Type
Anton condensed display · DM Sans body · JetBrains Mono meta
Motion
pointer registration · auto-drift idle · slider mixer
Status
🟢 on press · contrast AA · reduced-motion safe
[01]SIX PLATES

2026 print patterns rebuilt in two inks · scroll to reveal

01 · misregistration

The slip is the style

Pink and blue plates offset on pointer with eased return. The headline above is the live version — error as expression.

02 · halftone

Dots, not gradients

Tone built from dot density.

03 · overprint

A third colour, free

Where pink multiplies blue, a darker hue appears that neither plate carries alone.

04 · condensed display

Anton, oversized

A single heavy condensed face does all the shouting — the riso poster voice.

RISO
05 · paper grain

Never too clean

Turbulence at 6%.

06 · two-colour limit

Constraint as identity

Two plates force decisions. Limited inks read as deliberate — the opposite of an infinite palette.

[02]REGISTRATION

drag to push the plates apart · 0 = perfectly registered

shift 6 px
Field note: 001 whispers and 002 declares — 003 prints. The misregistration is the same cursor-physics engine, but the payload is ink instead of light: every overlap mixes a colour the file never stores.