The Name of Poplicola

Personality & Voice

Typography Standards

Lead with the finding, name the source, use plain words with no adjectives of alarm. We present unredacted documentary evidence without artificial urgency, melodrama, or moralizing rhetoric.

Cinzel for headings and wordmark with extra letter spacing, evoking classical Roman lapidary inscriptions. EB Garamond for body text, maintaining archival cadence and effortless editorial reading.

Zero

Adjectives of alarm: none

Cinzel & Garamond

Primary typographic hierarchy

Five Authorized Pigments

Note that Pompeian Red is strictly reserved for shapes, emblems, and rules on dark surfaces, never for small running text.

Ink

Marble Ivory

Pompeian Red

The primary dark foundation, drawn from carbon archival ink, providing stern background contrast across all pages.

Unbleached rag vellum and carved marble tone applied to main headings, document bodies, and unredacted quotations.

A singular mineral red used sparingly for geometric stamps, boundary rules, and seals on dark surfaces.

Laurel Bronze

Stone

Subdued Roman bronze reserved for hairline dividers, ornamental glyphs, docket framing, and formal metadata tags.

Muted weathered stone tone calibrated for folio pagination, primary source citations, figure captions, and footnotes.

Visual Motifs & Restrictions

Motifs to Use

Motifs to Avoid

Approved symbols include the liberty cap on a pole, laurel and olive branches, scroll and quill, oil lamp, carved Roman capitals, and copperplate engraving.

Strictly avoid fasces, imperial eagles, legion standards, flag-waving clichés, and real people. No stock photos of human subjects are permitted under any circumstance.

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