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Brand sheet.
Three riso inks, one die-cut sticker, and a voice that's loud about the fun bits and plain about the money bits. Ink is translucent and misregistered; stickers are opaque vinyl that peels.
The sticker.
Hover, focus or tap it. The bottom corner peels up and snaps back with a little slap. At rest it's already lifting a touch, so even a still frame says “sticker”.
The wordmark is Anybody 900 at 90% width, each letter bounced by a few degrees so it reads hand-set. Pink plate over a Federal Blue drop, inside a fat white die-cut border that follows the letters. The counters stay filled, like real weeded vinyl.
How the peel works: the fold is a 45° line across the corner. The front is clipped on one side of it, and the flap is the same silhouette reflected across the line, shaded like the sticker's paper backing.
Mark and lockups
bank to bank.
On every stock
The white vinyl border does the work, so the sticker sits on any ground without a box around it.
Minimum sizes
Wordmark: 72 px wide on screen, 18 mm in print. Below 110 px drop the peel animation and keep the still corner.
Mark: 16 px (favicon) and up. The favicon is the same sticker, corner lifted.
Three inks. That's it.
Fluoro Pink, Federal Blue and Yellow, printed on newsprint, with no black at all. Federal Blue is dark enough to be the key ink for every word, pink is the shout, yellow is the paper you didn't expect. Where two plates overlap they multiply into a fourth colour for free, which is how riso works and why the palette feels bigger than three.
Inks
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Fluoro Pink
--pink · #FF48B0The loud one. Logo letters, arrows, stamps, focus rings. Never body text.
oklch(69.3% 0.236 350.2) -
Federal Blue
--blue · #3D5588The key ink. Every word you read is printed in it (6.4:1 on newsprint).
oklch(45.5% 0.089 264.1) -
Riso Yellow
--yellow · #FFE800Floods, highlighter marks, halftone suns. A paper stock in its own right.
oklch(92.1% 0.193 102.2)
Overprints
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Bruise
--bruise · #3D185EPink over blue. Headlines read in it; text on pink uses it.
oklch(30.5% 0.119 304.4) -
Ketchup
--ketchup · #FF4100Pink over yellow. Void stamps and warnings, sparingly.
oklch(65.7% 0.232 34.7) -
Pond
--pond · #3D4D00Blue over yellow. Only ever appears where the plates overlap.
oklch(39.2% 0.095 122.2)
Stocks
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Newsprint
--news · #F4EFE4The default page. Carries a fine speckle grain.
oklch(95.3% 0.016 86.4) -
Candyfloss
--candyfloss · #FFD6EAPink paper stock for one spread at a time.
oklch(91.6% 0.052 347.2) -
Vinyl White
--vinyl · #FFFFFFSticker borders only. Never a page colour.
oklch(100% 0 0) -
Backing
--backing · #E9EEF7The sticker sheet's release paper, with its faint grid.
oklch(94.8% 0.013 262.4)
Shouty, then sturdy.
Anybody
Display. Etcetera Type Co, OFL. One variable font with a width axis from 50% to 150%, so the same family does ultra-condensed posters, chunky stickers and the wide logo.
Atkinson Hyperlegible
Text and mono. Braille Institute, OFL. Drawn so similar letters can't be mistaken for each other, which matters when the words are amounts and account names. The loud stuff is the display face; the bits you need to read are set in this.
@shah#trustfund £50 => @amira#rainyday
0O 1lI 5S 8B · K7Q2XPA
Pay friends
Every payment is a sentence.
Just pick your bank.
Link the accounts you already have.
If anything changes before it's sent, nothing is sent.
@shah#trustfund £50 => @amira#rainyday
Issue 0.2 · in testing
Cheeky about fun. Exact about money.
Faloos talks like a mate who's good with money: jokes about #emergencycrisps, never jokes about where your £50 went. Short sentences, real names for things, no promises we can't show.
We say
We don't say
Pay @amira £12.50 from #krustykrab.
Initiate a peer-to-peer transfer from your linked account.
We never hold your money. It goes from your bank to theirs.
Your funds are safe with us.
Nothing moves until you approve it.
Seamless, frictionless payments in one tap.
Faloos 0.2 is in testing. It's not out yet.
Coming soon to revolutionise how you pay.
Placeholder: this form doesn't send anything yet.
Thanks! You're all set. (when nothing was sent)
Paper doesn't glide.
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Peel, lift, slap.
Stickers lift with a corner peel and a bigger shadow, lean into the direction you fling them, and land with one squash and a wobble. Nothing floats.
go on, peel one -
Stamps thud.
A stamp comes down fast (300 ms, ease-in), lands slightly over-rotated and shakes the page by two pixels. It's the only “impact” in the system, so it means something: you made a thing.
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Plates drift, a little.
The pink plate sits a few hundredths of an em off the blue one, and settles somewhere slightly different each time a spread is “printed”. Never more than about 0.05 em; it should look printed, not broken.
Misregistered
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Nothing loops.
No ambient animation, no autoplay. Things move because you moved them. The one repeat is the “stick here” nudge while you're holding a sticker.
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Reduced motion is a print run, not a broken page.
With reduced motion on, the zine is the same layout: stickers still go where you put them, stamps appear without the thud, plates stay put, the logo shows its still corner.
The sticker sheet.
Every account nickname is a sticker. One ink face, a white die-cut border, a corner that peels. Tags for your accounts, pills for loud ones, and a few utility stickers for the zine itself. All of these peel; drag them anywhere.
App icon.
The mark, slapped on a flood of ink at a jaunty angle, corner lifting. Yellow is the proposal: nothing else on a home screen looks like it.
Placeholder neighbours are grey blocks, not real app icons.