Brief № 04 — Visual Identity
54°41′ N · 25°16′ E — Vilniaus Miestas

LoveVilnius.

The Amber Samizdat
Pressed & bound in the old town
Vol. IV — Edition of one

Underground guide · est. now

A city printed
in amber & ink.

LoveVilnius is the people's broadsheet of the Lithuanian capital — backstreet bars, baroque courtyards, the smell of black bread and pine. Folded into your pocket like contraband.

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Pressroom Palette

Riso inks pulled across warm newsprint. Amber leads, oxblood signals, pine grounds — every pairing meets WCAG AA.

SurfaceNewsprint#F4E8D2Text: ink ✓ AAA
Surface · altAged Paper#ECE0C3Fields & wells
Neutral · textWarm Ink#211405On paper ✓ AAA
Secondary · signalOxblood#7A1F12On paper ✓ AA
Primary · fillBaltic Amber#D98613Ink text ✓ AA
AccentAmber Bright#F0A92BInk text only
Tertiary · groundForest Pine#2F4231On paper ✓ AA
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Typeface Specimens

Fraunces for headlines — high-contrast, slightly wonky, alive. Spline Sans Mono for fine-print. Archivo for body.

Display — Fraunces 900 / italic

Vilnius,
my amber
republic.

Mono — Spline Sans Mono 500

[ 54.6872, 25.2797 ]
// open late, pressed by hand
EST_2026 — ed. of one

Body copy is set in Archivo — a grotesque with just enough grit to sit beside the serif without polishing it. Used for paragraphs, captions and metadata.

Modular scale — 1.25 minor third
76 · 900The old town never sleeps
48 · 900Courtyards & corner bars
31 · 600iDown by the river Neris
20 · 500Bread, pine, amber, rain.
14 · 400Footnotes from a folded broadsheet you keep in your coat pocket all winter.
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Controls & Forms

Hard offset shadows, no rounded corners. One primary action per group — everything looks rubber-stamped.

Buttons

Primary → secondary → tertiary

Small / inline


Filters & toggle

Neighbourhoods

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Dispatch Cards

Imagery treated as duotone halftone plates — no photos, only pressed ink colour fields.

Tonight
Nightlife · Užupis
Candlelit cellars off Paupio

A string of unmarked doors where the city keeps its jazz, its amber liqueur and its secrets.

4.9 · 212 notes€€
Food · Senamiestis
Black rye & smoked pike supper

A wood-fired kitchen in a Gothic courtyard, plating Lithuania the way grandmothers swore by.

4.8 · 488 notes€€€
Free
Walk · Neris bank
Sunrise loop along the river

Mist, pine and the silhouette of Gediminas' tower — best taken before the trolleys start running.

5.0 · freeFREE
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Stamped Marks

Single-weight 2px line icons — drawn like rubber stamps, never filled.

Love
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Old Town
Pine
Amber
Pin
Open late
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