光の写本 · LOKTA

SPECIMEN · DECK

Lokta

One cookbook's page system, ported to the screen.

After Cuisine on Screen · Prestel
光の写本 · LOKTA

Where it comes from

Lokta adapts the page layout of Cuisine on Screen by Sachiyo Harada (Prestel), a collection of dishes from Japanese cult cinema.

  • a warm cream stock, never pure white
  • a vertical 光の写本 spine
  • hatched rules that let a section breathe
  • grotesk titles run hard to the right margin

The peach grounds and Bengali type follow Siddika Kabir's Ranna Khaddo Pushti.

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Three voices

The book pairs a neutral grotesk, a paper-friendly mono, and an editorial serif. Lokta keeps all three.

  • Archivo carries display and body
  • Spline Sans Mono sets labels, folios, and figures
  • Source Serif handles the film notes and pull quotes
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Pigment is a ground, not a tint

In the book, marigold fills the film-opener spreads behind dark text, the way a still fills the page. Lokta keeps it that way: a full-bleed ground, never body color, always dark text.

After Cuisine on Screen · Prestel
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A measured rule

Rules stop short of the margin and close with a hatched end-mark, lifted straight from the cookbook, so a section ends with breath.

After Cuisine on Screen · Prestel
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Diagrams have a house style

Square nodes, ink strokes, straight edges, mono edge labels. Marigold marks the one node to read first. The same theme renders on the web and into Typst.

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Four paper stocks

You do not design a library. You design the quality of an afternoon.

Paper, Ink, Bone, and Indigo. Every text role clears WCAG 2.2 AA on each.

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Thank you

LOKTA · v0.1 · MMXXVI

After Cuisine on Screen · Prestel