MELDER — 12 Title Styles style prototype spec v0.1
One layout, twelve treatments. Generated from
tools/gen-title-styles.py so the composition is identical in all twelve and
only the art direction varies — otherwise you end up comparing layout noise.
Click any tile to open it full size and use the real hover and press states.
00 · Current (shipping)the Swiss direction as it stands today — the controlopen full size →★ Balatro system — PLAY screenthe extension test: felt, tinted tiles, melds, a score popupopen full size →01 · Bakelite Butterscotchwarm, tactile, unpretentious, “found in a cupboard”open full size →02 · Neon Soft-Litlate-night arcade, but comfortable for a 2-hour sessionopen full size →03 · Risograph Zine (Dense)punk print shop, handmade, highest differentiation on a Steam pageopen full size →04 · Lacquer Festivefestive parlour, holiday tin, celebratoryopen full size →05 · Neo-Bauhaus LEDa Bauhaus poster displayed on a giant LED wallopen full size →06 · Brutalist Concrete + NeonBarbican car park at night with one working signopen full size →07 · Dot-Matrix Terminal1984 office, dot-matrix printout of a game menuopen full size →08 · Slide Projector / Kodachromea family slideshow, but the slides are game tilesopen full size →09 · Anodized Glassa settings pane that happens to be a gameopen full size →10 · Laser Vectorvector arcade cabinet, 1979, still runningopen full size →11 · Memphis Postmoderna game that came free with a Swatchopen full size →12 · Anamorphic Cinemathe trailer, not the gameopen full size →13 · Wiener WerkstätteVienna 1905 — black lacquer, gold leaf, Moser checkerboard. The rack IS the motif.open full size →14 · Cyanotype Blueprinta run is a machine you are drafting — Prussian blue, white line, title block.open full size →15 · Bookshelf Edition 1972the retail box Rummikub actually shipped in — flat bands, Helvetica Black, big numerals.open full size →16 · Engraved Banknotescore is currency — intaglio guilloché, one ink, security rules. Chips × Mult as a denomination.open full size →17 · Paul Rand · 1956IBM — the stripes, the rebus wit, one flat primary on white. Serious business, played.open full size →18 · Müller-Brockmann · 1957Tonhalle — concentric arcs on black, Akzidenz on a mathematical grid, the type IS the music.open full size →19 · Armin Hofmann · 1959Basel Stadttheater — black and white only, one enormous form, tiny precise type. Scale is the colour.open full size →20 · Saul Bass · 1959Anatomy of a Murder / North by Northwest — cut-paper jags, one screaming colour, converging rules.open full size →21 · Wim Crouwel · 1967New Alphabet — letterforms rebuilt from a grid, no curves, no diagonals. The tile is a bitmap.open full size →22 · Otl Aicher · 1972Munich — the pictogram grid, light blue and green, Univers, and no red anywhere by design.open full size →23 · Massimo Vignelli · 1972NYC Subway — Helvetica, route lines bending at 45°, station dots. Every tile is a station bullet.open full size →24 · Ikko Tanaka · 1981Nihon Buyo — a whole figure from a handful of flat geometric blocks. The technique, minus the face.open full size →25 · Ettore Sottsass · 1981Memphis Milano launch — Bacterio laminate, the Carlton shelf, pastel and black, nothing at right angles to sense.open full size →26 · Neville Brody · 1983The Face — constructed capitals, symbols as punctuation, a red bar, type turned on its side.open full size →27 · Susan Kare · 1984Macintosh System 1 — 1-bit, 72 dpi, dither and Chicago. NEW GAME gets the double-ring default button.open full size →28 · April Greiman · 1986Design Quarterly #133 — the first digital collage: video gradients, MacPaint texture, floating fragments.open full size →29 · Kyle Cooper · 1995Se7en — scratched emulsion, hand-scrawled type, frames that will not sit still. Texture, not horror.open full size →30 · Balatro Systemnear-black + disharmonic neon, slab numerals, baked print artefacts — the genre's own visual grammar, in Melder's suitsopen full size →
