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90s RAVE CULTURE — UNDERGROUND AESTHETIC — MAXIMUM SENSORY ASSAULT

ACID

GRAPHICS

Fluorescent colors on black. Experimental typography. Distorted shapes. Maximum sensory assault.

BPM

174

VOLTAGE

12kV

YEAR

1993

DEPTH

MAX

TYPE EXPERIMENTS

DESTROY THE TYPE.
REBUILD IT.

WARPED
SIGNAL
DISTORT EVERYTHING
ACID 001 / SYSTEM OVERLOAD

TECHNIQUE: SCALE TRANSFORM — scaleX(1.35) / scaleY(0.38) — ROTATE(-12deg) — WRITING-MODE VERTICAL

COMPONENTS

ACID UI SYSTEM

PRIMARY — BLACK BG, GREEN BORDER, HOVER SHIFTS TO YELLOW FILL

STROKE VARIANTS — EACH BORDER IN A DIFFERENT NEON FREQUENCY

SOLID FILL — MAXIMUM AGGRESSION

HIGH VOLTAGE PALETTE

NEON COLOR PALETTE

CAUTION: HIGH VOLTAGE — 5 LIVE FREQUENCIES

ACID GREEN

#39FF14 — 12kV — PRIMARY

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MOCK RAVE POSTER

FULL ACID AESTHETIC

SYSTEM
BREACH
03.06.1993BERLIN

LINEUP

PLASTIKMAN02:00 — 04:00
SURGEON00:00 — 02:00
BLAWAN22:00 — 00:00
OBJEKT20:00 — 22:00
KARENN18:00 — 20:00

TRESOR — MITTE

DOORS 18:00 — 18+ — UNDERGROUND ONLY

NO CAMERAS / NO COMPROMISE
MANIFESTO

ACID LAWS

FOLLOW THEM OR GO BACK TO THE MAINSTREAM

DO

DO THIS

  • 01FLUORESCENT COLORS ON BLACK ONLY — maximum contrast, maximum assault
  • 02ALL CAPS ALWAYS — lowercase is for the mainstream
  • 03NEON GLOW EFFECTS — box-shadow and text-shadow in matching neon color
  • 04EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY — stretch, compress, rotate, collide
  • 05BLACK BACKGROUND EVERYWHERE — #0a0a0a is the only valid base
  • 06STROKE TEXT — -webkit-text-stroke for deconstructed hollow letterforms
NO

DON'T

  • 01NEVER USE WHITE BACKGROUNDS — acid lives in the dark
  • 02NEVER USE SOFT COLORS — pastels are for the weak
  • 03NEVER USE SERIF FONTS — clean sans only, destroyed at will
  • 04NEVER CENTER CONSERVATIVELY — collide everything
  • 05NEVER USE ROUNDED CORNERS — sharp edges define the aesthetic
  • 06NEVER USE LOW OPACITY ON TEXT — readability is a non-negotiable

THE UNDERGROUND NEVER ASKS FOR PERMISSION.

ACID GRAPHICS — BORN IN THE DARK — 1988

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ACID GRAPHICS

90s RAVE CULTURE — UNDERGROUND CLUB SCENE — FLUORESCENT ON BLACK — EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY

FREQUENCIES

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ACTIVE SIGNALS

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ACID GRAPHICS — STYLEKIT — UNDERGROUND SINCE 1988

NO MAINSTREAM / NO PASTEL / NO COMPROMISE