Blueprint: a cobalt drawing sheet with a visible grid and crop marks
Blueprint makes the construction of the poster part of the picture. The Grid finish draws the full 12 by 16 module grid faintly across the cobalt sheet, adds crop marks at the corners and a registration target at the middle of each edge, and prints all 40 Lissajous strands in flat white. Plan Section Elevation stacks one word per line in white condensed type on the left, while the right panel holds the woven figure like a measured detail.
Make it yours
Draft in other inks
The grid lines are mixed from the Light color and Ink, so any pairing keeps the drafting look. White on cobalt is the classic print; try a graphite Ink on a pale Light color for a pencil-on-tracing-paper version.
Stack the views
The Split layout can set the Headline on up to five lines and sizes it to fill the column, so three short nouns like these stack one per line. They read as the title block of a technical drawing.
FAQ
What are the registration targets and crop marks for?
On a printed sheet they tell the trimmer where to cut and let the printer check that the plates line up. Here the Grid finish adds them as part of the design, four targets at the edges and marks at each corner, so a digital poster carries the trace of the print shop.
How it works
Choose a layout and a line system
Combine one of 5 layouts, Swiss, Split, Cover, Caption or Oversized, with one of 5 equations, or start from one of 17 looks such as Kunsthalle, Riso Duo or Night Conference.
Write and set your copy
Edit the Eyebrow, Headline, Body and Footer, choose a Grotesk, Condensed, Wide or Serif Typeface, and wrap one word of the headline in asterisks to set it in serif italic.
Tune the drawing and use it
Adjust Symmetry, Resonance, Coupling, Phase, Warp, Copies, Line width and Shape scale, choose a Clean, Riso, Grid or Overprint finish and the colors, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.