Xerox Zine

Xerox Zine channels late-70s and 80s punk fanzines and the riot-grrrl paste-ups that followed: everything looks cut out with scissors, glued down and run through a tired photocopier. Black toner on off-white paper does most of the work, with coarse halftone photographs, marker-pen headlines and typewritten body text. Elements sit a few degrees off true, held by strips of tape. A red marker circles the important things and a yellow highlighter swipes the occasional line. It should feel urgent, handmade and defiantly cheap.

Principles

• Nothing sits perfectly straight: rotate blocks between -3° and 3°.
• Photos are always halftoned and high-contrast, never clean.
• Headlines are hand-lettered in marker; body text is typewritten.
• Red marker is for circling and underlining, not filling.
• Density is a feature — pack the page like a crowded A5 spread.

Motion

Cards jump in from the left in three choppy frames, like pages fed through a copier. On hover a card rotates a further 2° as if someone nudged the paste-up.

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