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# Offset · One Form, Shifted
- URL: https://blog.garypercival.com/offset-one-form-shifted/
- Published: 2026-07-05T15:00:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-05T15:00:19.000Z
- Description: A poster built from a grid of repeated grey letterforms and one yellow headline, run twice at different scales. Offset printing turned into the subject itself.
- Author: Gary Percival
- Tags: #behindtheposter

## Why this week's poster

This week I built a field instead of a single letterform. 

A grid of grey, extruded slab letters fills the page, cropped hard at black tile borders like a signage wall or a type foundry archive. 

Two versions of the same yellow headline sit inside that field, set at different scales. 

Offset 〰 One Form Shifted, doubled, became both the title and the structure.

## The build

- **Objects.** A randomised alphabet, duplicated across a black-gridded tile layout.
- **Letters.** Extruded grey slab serifs, cropped hard at each tile edge for density.
- **Colour.** Flat yellow headline against a cool grey field; black gridlines carry the contrast.
- **Lighting.** Even, flat light across the grey field; the yellow type left unlit to read as print, not object.
- **Texture.** Slight bevel on each extruded letter; matte finish throughout, no gloss.
- **Type.** Headline repeated twice at different scales; brand microtext tiled through the gaps.

## What worked

- The grid holds density without tipping into noise.
- Two scales of the same headline give the page a top and a bottom.
- Flat yellow against modelled grey keeps the read fast.

## What I'd push next time

- Tighter registration on the tile grid at the seams.
- A version with the grey field in motion, tiles shifting independently.
- More contrast between the two headline scales.

## Print details

- Edition: open
- Sizes: A3

## Close

Offset started as a printing term.   
  
Here it's a grid, a repeat, a shift in scale. 

The letterforms stay grey.   
The headline stays yellow.   
Everything else is structure.

![`Two Offset · One Form Shifted posters overlapping, yellow headlines on dense grey 3D letterform grids`](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/bc/92bc4aa6-fb0d-48c9-88cc-6bb1e109d23d/content/images/2026/07/Ghost_Post_Images.jpg)