Studio Ceramics: enormous serif type over throwing-ridge waves
Studio Ceramics is a sale poster for a pottery studio, and the word itself is the object. Clay fills the bone sheet in dark brown serif at Oversized scale, while 56 wave hairlines with a low Coupling of 22 roll gently across and behind the letters like the ridges a potter's fingers leave on a thrown wall. A muted clay pink Accent traces one wave, the only warm note against the brown.
Make it yours
Calm or stir the surface
Coupling is the height of each wave, 22 here for shallow ridges. Raise it to 60 for a rougher, hand-built texture, and add Warp to make the ridges drift apart as they would on a wobbly wheel.
Choose a single word
Oversized gives the Headline the whole sheet, so a short word like Clay or Glaze lands at full size. The serif Typeface suits craft and tableware, and switching to Grotesk makes the same poster feel like a contemporary design shop.
FAQ
Which Equation gives Studio Ceramics its throwing-ridge texture?
Wave. Unlike the closed curves it runs from edge to edge, and its copies stack down the sheet instead of scaling inward, so 56 strands form a band of parallel ridges. Symmetry 3 sets the number of swells and Resonance 1 keeps them long and even.
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.