MISREGISTER
Issue 07 / Riso Quarterly
A two-plate print language

TWO PLATES.
ONE OFF AXIS.

Sumi black, then one phosphor green — landed a measured 2.5mm off register, on purpose. The slip you see before you read is the whole identity.

STOCK BONE 120GSMSCREEN 55 LPIOFFSET 2.5MM SE
Hand cranked · Edition of 250
The mechanic

The fault is the finish.

A press run wants perfect registration. This one welds the green plate a hair off the black and never corrects it — so a luminous phosphor double trails every contour like an after-image pressed into paper. It is motion held perfectly still.

01

SLIP

Every headline, figure and number carries a green ghost offset to the south-east. The misalignment does the work that glow and gradients usually fake — at no cost but discipline.

02

INK

The green is spot ink on a drum, not a screen beam. It multiplies against the sumi and sits into the paper. No bloom, no neon haze — a printerly green that reads as a second pass.

03

TONE

Shadow is a 55-line halftone, never a soft drop. Depth comes from dot density and the offset double, so dark surfaces read as inked plates, not floating cards.

Type specimen

Grotesk and serif, one green pass.

A heavy grotesque carries the labels; a real serif keeps the editorial voice warm; one teletype mono runs the folios and registration marks. The green never becomes a third typeface — only a second plate.

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DISPLAY — Anton, the masthead grotesque BODY — Spectral serif, 17px, line 1.55 MARKS — Spline Sans Mono, folios & offsets
OffsetThe green plate trails 2.5mm SE — the single ownable gesture.
AccentOne phosphor green, used like a second printing pass. Never a third colour.
AmberReserved for a drifting plate; vermilion for a voided sheet.
RadiusHard corners only. A printed sheet has no rounded cards.
250sheets in the run
2.5mmplate offset, held
55lpihalftone screen
2plates, one accent
Get a plate on the drum

Set it once. Let it slip.

The cover sets the run.

Pick the offset, lock the screen, and crank. The press does the rest — and the green plate lands exactly 2.5 millimetres off the black, every single sheet, by design.

Edition status
250 / 250
Run complete — green drifting on the last pull.