Public vault · every note in the open
Steal this vault
4 references, 9 human-written steal-notes. Every entry answers: where is it from, what family is it, and what would you steal?
Engineering-document romance: monospace, registration marks, spec numbers, barcodes, warm paper. Software presented like a beautifully printed manual.
Palette: #ffffff, #111111 Print-Tech Paper · poster · via V&A Collections
Steal · typography
Two voices and nothing between them: enormous condensed bold sans for the two headlines that bracket the poster top and bottom, and typewriter monospace for every word of body copy. No intermediate sizes, no third face. The absence of a middle tier is what makes both ends read as deliberate.
Steal · grid/layout
Body-text measures are keyed to the width of the photo band directly above them, not to a uniform column — so the text grid changes width three times down the page while staying locked to the images. Steal for image-heavy articles: set caption measure from the figure it belongs to.
Steal · texture/material
Emphasis is carried entirely by underline, because a typewriter has nothing else — no bold, no italic in the body at all. Attributions are underlined; that is the only mechanism. Adopting the constraint forces you to earn emphasis rather than sprinkle it.
Steal · copywriting
Every quotation carries its attribution underlined on the same line, immediately after the claim. Source-adjacent-to-assertion, never footnoted away. Use it wherever credibility is the argument — the citation belongs where the eye already is.
Fonts: condensed grotesque, typewriter monospace · curated by 1977
Palette: #eeeae2, #1c1c1c, #ff4d00 Print-Tech Paper · full website · via Godly
Steal · texture/material
Product pages formatted like a parts catalog: SKU numbers, exploded diagrams, torque specs. The datasheet as brand voice.
Steal · component pattern
Accessory list rendered as an order form with checkboxes — commerce disguised as engineering paperwork.
Fonts: Univers, TE mono
Palette: #f2efe6, #16160f, #2b4c9b Print-Tech Paper · type specimen · via Fonts In Use
Steal · typography
License tiers named like defense contracts ('Developer', 'Enterprise', 'Air-gapped') set in the mono itself — the font sells the font.
Steal · texture/material
Form number and revision code in every page footer (BG-101 REV C). Fictional bureaucracy as world-building.
Fonts: Berkeley Mono
Palette: #e8e4da, #191919, #c8102e Print-Tech Paper · editorial · via Behance
Fonts: Helvetica, Letter Gothic
Provenance & takedown
Every reference here links out to its original, and all referenced work belongs to its creators. What this vault adds — and what it is for — is the human-written commentary: the steal-notes are the content, not the pixels. Study use only.
Made something shown here and want it removed? Email util.wills@gmail.com with the entry title or a link to this page — it comes down promptly, no questions asked.
Fork this vault
Take the whole thing — references, steal-notes, provenance — and make it your starting point. Every steal-note here was written by a human. That is the point.
npx trova init --family print-tech