Show the build
Borders, rules and offset shadows stay visible. The interface looks assembled from stacked sheets because it is — structure is the decoration.
Three rules of the bench
MANIFESTOType does the steering
Hierarchy comes from condensed uppercase mass and stamped mono labels, not from colour. You scan the masthead before you read a word of copy.
Marks left on
Crosshairs, serials and a single vermilion register mark stay on the sheet. The misregistered second pass is the signature, never an error to hide.
How a run goes
FOUR PASSES01
Drop a ticket
Title, stock, reduction. The desk stamps it with a DUP serial.
02
Set the offset
Pick the misregister: +4px, +0.6°, crosshairs on or off.
03
Pull the run
Watch the gauge fill. Hold on low ink, swap, resume.
04
Box & close
Collate, stamp the manifest, log it to the run ledger.
Desk spec
RD-12| Ground | Dirty off-white paper field — #ECE8DF, never pure white. |
| Ink | Soot-black #111010, one vermilion register mark #B23A1E. |
| Type | Archivo (condensed uppercase masthead) · Spline Sans Mono & IBM Plex Mono (body, serials). |
| Shape | Square corners only. Pills reserved for stamped status chips. |
| Depth | Hard offset shadows — 4/8/12px, zero blur. Misregistered duplicate sheets. |
| Signature | The misregistered offset pass — a duplicate slab shifted a few pixels behind each panel. |
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