What is acid design?

"acid design" is a literal translation of the English word acid design.

Acid does not refer to the taste acid, but refers to the visual hallucinogenic and psychedelic effect.

Sour room music, high-tech electronic dance music and hippie culture, which originated in the 1990s, are full of strong cynicism. The core is to challenge the traditional definitions of beauty and desire. In essence, it is also a replica of popular culture in the last century. Although it looks quite trendy, it is actually a purely retro design, and retro and futuristic coexist. This style often appears in music labels and fashion clothes, and then gradually becomes popular on the Internet.

Material characteristics: acid style uses a lot of cold liquid metal, glass, aluminum foil plastic and so on.

Element symbol: acid design is actually an overlapping combination of points, lines and geometric figures. On the whole, acid design is visually vague, avant-garde and sci-fi, so geometric figures, twisted metals, geometric and serrated fonts, full layout and high saturation colors often appear repeatedly, showing a unique acid design style.

Auxiliary element

Font features: Usually acid fonts use a lot of distorted and chaotic fonts.

Color features: high saturation tone, gradient color with high saturation such as black, gray and silver, organic rainbow and fluorescent color matching, which fully embodies the sense of sci-fi special effects. Or dark wind, with black ash as the background color and high saturation fluorescent color embellishing the picture.

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