The registration mark, deliberately missed.
Woodblock printers cut a kentō into every block so each color lands in alignment. Kentō the language takes that mark and pulls it a few pixels off — vermilion ghosts left, pine ghosts right — so every headline reads like a sheet the press misregistered on purpose. Calm parchment, hard ink, designed corruption.
Registration offset
One reusable primitive ghosts text and edges into the red and green channels. Never random damage — the same deliberate misregister, everywhere.
Scanline bands
Decisive horizontal strips over headers and media frames. A few bands, placed with intent, not wallpaper across the sheet.
Inked contours
Every panel and control wears a near-black sumi outline before any color. Hard offset shadows, double-rule dividers, stepped corners.
A printed shout, then a quiet paragraph.
Poster-weight Zen Kaku headlines carry the register offset; a restrained Shippori Mincho body gives the inked frames something calm to hold. The tension between the two is the whole house style.
Misregister.
Three passes over one sheet.
Lay the planes
Flat poster blocks — vermilion, indigo, pine — one field dominating each region, the rest left parchment.
Pull the register
Ghost the contours a few pixels off true. The offset is fixed and reused, never improvised per element.
Slice the signal
Add a few scanline bands and a hard horizontal shear. Stop before the subject is lost — emptiness is part of the print.
Three highlighters on warm paper.
Vermilion leads, indigo grounds, pine answers — used like highlighters over a parchment sheet. Color is printed, never lit: no gradients, no glow.
Build something off the mark.
Kentō ships as tokens, an embodiment, a dashboard, and a shadcn theme — paired with the Surimono Signal art style. Faithful to the woodblock; sharpened for the screen.