Repère prints your interface like a four-colour screen run. Flat ink plates, blunt black keylines, three spot colours offset just enough that a fourth blooms in the overlap. The registration cross signs every plate.
Depth here is not a shadow. It is registration error, made deliberate: one ink plate shifts up-left, the next shifts down-right, and where they multiply, a fourth colour appears that the palette never declared.
Pick a spot colour and dial the offset in pixels. Eight is the house default — enough to read as a deliberate trap, never enough to break legibility.
The cyan plate prints over the orange and the overlap band darkens. That band is the system's signature — the bloom you cannot fake with a gradient.
The lead spot. Carries one primary action per view and signs the masthead. Loud, never muddy.
The cool counter-channel. Re-registration, links, and the focus ring. It cools what the tangerine heats.
The confirm channel. Registered states, run tags, the dot field that fills the quiet gaps poster-tight.
Split the artwork into three spot plates and a black keyline. The press knows exactly which ink hits which screen.
Line the crosses up, then nudge each plate the chosen offset. The trap is set before a sheet runs.
Pull one sheet. Read the bloom band against the cross. Adjust the offset; pull again until it sits.
Send the full run to press. Every sheet carries the same deliberate misregistration, edge to edge.
For a small press team running weekly drops.
For shops registering hundreds of runs a week.
Eight pixels of deliberate error is all it takes. Pull a proof and watch the fourth colour bloom.
Pull your first proof