Celpa 5 cover
A hard-edged modernist layout built from saturated green, primary-color vertical capsules, black rule structures, and sparse sans-serif typography. The composition feels like a fusion of laboratory diagram, industrial chart, and Swiss-influenced editorial cover: flat planes, gridded measurement marks, and asymmetrical balance create a technical but playful mood. Texture is mostly smooth printed ink with slight vintage reproduction softness, emphasizing crisp geometric form over illustration.
Visual index
Form rounded capsule shapesrectangular black barsthin measurement gridlowercase sans-serif letteringvertical scientific-chart elements
Mood technicaloptimisticindustrialmid-century moderncontrolled playfulness
Color saturated emerald green fieldprimary blue, red, and yellow accentsheavy black structural barscream-white negative spacesmall red typographic numeral
Texture flat lithographic inkslight print grainclean hard edgesvintage paper softness
Composition asymmetrical vertical layoutoverlapping geometric modulesstrong black crossbar gridlarge color-field backgrounddiagram-like central column
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