Library additions

New design styles

Every design style added to Omoro's library since it opened, newest first: 81 so far. Each one comes with its own page: the colour palette, typefaces, history and where it shows up in real work.

Added September 2026

72 styles

New design styles added to the library in September 2026.

  1. 01

    Anthropomorphic

    Animals and objects given human posture, clothes, jobs and feelings: a fox in a waistcoat, a teapot with opinions

    Added17 September 2026

  2. 02

    Conceptual Sketch

    The drawing made before the thing exists: construction lines, blue pencil, marker and handwritten notes on tracing paper

    Added17 September 2026

  3. 03

    Ethereal

    Light as a substance: haze, backlight, soft focus and sheer cloth until the subject seems made of air

    Added17 September 2026

  4. 04

    Kawaii

    Japan's culture of cute as a design system: round forms, dot eyes, tiny mouths and pastel colour, with a face on everything

    Added17 September 2026

  5. 05

    Pointillism

    Pictures built from thousands of dots of pure colour, left unmixed so the eye blends them at a distance

    Added17 September 2026

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    Rebus

    A sentence where pictures stand in for words: big plain headline type with an object dropped into the line where the noun should be

    Added17 September 2026

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    Bead Lettering

    Words spelled out one bead at a time: chrome micro-beads and pearls laid along a letterform on coloured card, raised enough to throw a shadow

    Added16 September 2026

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    Embossed Foil

    Words pressed into crumpled gold and silver leaf, read by their highlights rather than their colour: no ink, only light on a struck surface

    Added16 September 2026

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    Fabric Over Photo

    Real lace or tulle laid across a printed portrait and photographed again: the weave sharp on the paper, the face behind it soft and half gone

    Added16 September 2026

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    Graffiti Over Photo

    A clean studio shot defaced with one hand-sprayed tag in a single loud colour, drips and all, with the photograph underneath left sharp

    Added16 September 2026

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    Sticker Collage

    Snapshots, ticket stubs and foil star stickers taped down on coloured card, overlapping and crooked: a bedroom wall rather than a layout

    Added16 September 2026

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    Chromatic Airbrush

    Subjects dissolved into velvety airbrush gradients, coloured haze and impossible studio light: cyan, hot pink, acid green and saffron, soft focus over high gloss, artificial on purpose

    Added15 September 2026

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    Dazzle Camouflage

    Clashing stripes and curves painted across a form to break its outline, the 1917 ship camouflage now used by sportswear, packaging and anything that wants to look fast

    Added15 September 2026

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    Fauvism

    Colour used wrongly on purpose: green faces, red seas and violet trees in fast, thick, unblended strokes, from the 1905 Salon d'Automne to an illustration language for brands that want joy

    Added15 September 2026

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    Hollywood Regency

    Glamour as an interior: lacquer, mirror, brass, velvet, black-and-white floors and oversized plasterwork, from studio-era Los Angeles and Dorothy Draper's hotels

    Added15 September 2026

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    Illuminated Manuscript

    Gold leaf, dense borders, decorated initials and creatures in the margins: the medieval hand-made book, revived by William Morris and again now

    Added15 September 2026

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    Precisionism

    Industrial America drawn clean: factories, grain elevators and water towers reduced to flat planes, hard edges and long shadows, with no people and no smoke

    Added15 September 2026

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    Pulp Cover

    Painted covers made to sell in a second: a figure in danger or desire, a lurid sky, fat title type and a painter's hand in every fold, from the pulps and paperbacks of the 1930s to 1950s

    Added15 September 2026

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    Receipt Prints

    Thermal receipts treated as keepsakes: narrow vertical strips, faded one-bit images, monospace transaction type, totals, timestamps and barcode marks, creased and slightly degraded

    Added15 September 2026

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    Rococo

    Shell-scroll ornament, pale gilt, powder pastels, mirrors and ribbons: the playful, sensuous style of the 1730s Paris salon, back through bows and coquette fashion

    Added15 September 2026

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    Scribbled Out

    Clean images, found prints and layouts interrupted by aggressive marker edits: figures blanked out, crossings-out, censor bars, loops, underlines, arrows and blunt notes

    Added15 September 2026

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    Shaker

    Plain furniture and rooms made as an act of faith: peg rails, ladder-back chairs, oval boxes, whitewash and one line of colour, the American root of quiet craft

    Added15 September 2026

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    Supergraphics

    Stripes, arrows, circles and numerals painted bigger than the walls they are on, running over corners and floors so the graphic changes the room

    Added15 September 2026

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    Thread & Tape

    Assembled imagery held together in plain sight: photograph fragments, coloured paper, stitched thread, transparent tape, pins and hand-made joins

    Added15 September 2026

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    Trompe-l'œil

    The image that pretends to be the thing: painted bows, printed folds, fake doorways and false shadows, an illusion played straight and admitted with a wink

    Added15 September 2026

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    Wiener Werkstätte

    Vienna's geometric luxury craft: black-and-white checkerboards, grids of squares, gilded metalwork and stylised florals, from the building to the cutlery

    Added15 September 2026

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    WPA Poster

    Screen-printed public posters in three or four flat inks: parks, health, plays and zoos in simplified shapes and bold slab type

    Added15 September 2026

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    Acid Y2K

    Rave-flyer acid graphics crossed with Y2K futurism: liquid chrome type, acid green and ultraviolet on black, warped grids and jagged lettering

    Added14 September 2026

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    ASCII Art

    Pictures built from keyboard characters on a monospace grid, from Bell Labs in 1966 to terminal banners, BBS art and generative web

    Added14 September 2026

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    Baugasm

    Bauhaus geometry turned up to euphoria: stacked circles, arches and bars filled with vivid gradients and grain

    Added14 September 2026

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    Craft Modernism

    Modern form made by hand: oiled wood, stoneware, paper lanterns and hand-stitched patchwork in cobalt, mustard, tomato red and olive, with the maker's marks left visible

    Added14 September 2026

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    Halftone

    Continuous tone broken into printed dots: newspaper screens, Ben-Day fields and CMYK rosettes, enlarged until the dot is the image

    Added14 September 2026

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    Neo Swiss

    Swiss grid logic rebuilt for screens and motion: oversized grotesks, visible grids, cut-out photography and one loud accent

    Added14 September 2026

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    Streetwear

    Surf, skate and hip-hop clothing that took over luxury: graphic tees, hoodies, sneakers, logos and limited drops

    Added14 September 2026

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    Thermal Heat

    False-colour thermal imagery, scanner grain, fingerprint interference and expressive type for underground music culture

    Added14 September 2026

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    Cyanotype Photography

    Sun-printed iron chemistry: Prussian blue grounds, white silhouettes and brushed edges, from Anna Atkins's algae to contemporary botanical prints

    Added13 September 2026

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    Artisanal Textile

    The textile as the subject: irregular weave, visible hand stitching, decided patchwork, hand-dyed variation and repair, in silhouettes plain enough to show it

    Added10 September 2026

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    Deconstructed Tailoring

    The tailored jacket taken apart in plain sight: displaced lapels, moved closures, visible canvas and basting, hems left raw on purpose, all of it still wearable

    Added10 September 2026

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    Sculptural Couture

    Garments built as volume: curved panels, architectural folds and controlled asymmetry that hold their shape away from the body

    Added10 September 2026

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    Surrealist Fashion

    One physically legible illusion per picture, built from real construction, with bodies, fabric and light kept photographic

    Added10 September 2026

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    Technical Sportswear

    Function shown in the garment: articulated joints, mapped ventilation, taped seams, purposeful closures and a shell that keeps real weather out

    Added10 September 2026

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    Direct Flash Editorial

    Fashion and culture photography lit by a flash on the camera in a real place: a close wide lens, hard highlights, a cut shadow, colour at full volume and a pose that looks caught

    Added9 September 2026

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    Infrared Photography

    Real landscapes in false colour: foliage turned pink and coral, water and sky turned teal, with the optics, the weather and the grain left honest

    Added9 September 2026

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    Naïve Design

    Graphic naïveté as a brand system: oversized abstract glyphs, loose handwritten marks, simple smiley, flower and fruit symbols, screenprint grain on cream uncoated paper, a six-colour palette and generous empty space

    Added9 September 2026

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    Arte Povera

    Soil, rope, rags, wax and branches placed in the gallery with exact care: sculpture from poor materials, temporary by design

    Added8 September 2026

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    Constructivism

    Posters and books built like machines: diagonals, bars, circles and letterforms assembled in red, black and cream for maximum public reach

    Added8 September 2026

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    Dada

    Found images cut apart and pasted back wrong on purpose: photomontage, ransom-note type and nonsense delivered with a straight face

    Added8 September 2026

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    Futurism

    Speed painted as repeated form and force lines, machinery and the city in motion, with type that is set off like an engine

    Added8 September 2026

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    Op Art

    Black-and-white pattern engineered to move in the eye: warped grids, vibrating stripes and moire, with colour let in only to interrupt

    Added8 September 2026

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    Playful Platformer

    Chunky rounded shapes, candy colour, floating blocks, gems and an original three-shape hero: the world of a platform game rendered like a toy set, built for delight

    Added8 September 2026

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    Post-Internet

    Image culture after the platforms: compression artefacts, screenshot logic, lo-fi 3D and retail display treated as material, with online and offline kept deliberately blurred

    Added8 September 2026

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    PS1 / Dreamcast Low-Poly

    Late-1990s 3D game imagery: low polygon counts, warping textures, fogged horizons, jagged silhouettes and CRT colour bleed in strange empty spaces

    Added8 September 2026

  53. 53

    Sports-Game UI

    Player cards, scoreboards, stat systems and match-day overlays: a bold numerical hierarchy under stadium lights, cropped fast, for a premium fictional league

    Added8 September 2026

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    Afro Surrealism

    The present rendered as the strange thing it is: collaged bodies, velvet and gold, the impossible staged in an ordinary room

    Added5 September 2026

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    Biomorphic Modernism

    Modernism that learned from cells and pebbles: bent plywood, the kidney table, the Womb chair, straight lines let go

    Added5 September 2026

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    Radical Italian Design

    Florence and Milan, 1966 to 1980: design as argument, with the manifesto printed on the object and the object shaped like a joke

    Added5 September 2026

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    Space Age Pop

    The decade after Sputnik, furnished: moulded plastic, one-piece optimism, white and orange and silver, the future sold as a lifestyle

    Added5 September 2026

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    Mid-Century Illustration

    Postwar optimism translated into flat gouache shapes, atomic motifs, expressive linework and the tactile grain of ink on paper

    Added4 September 2026

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    Motion Design

    Design that uses time, rhythm, movement and transition as core visual materials: title sequences, idents, kinetic type, product films and loops

    Added4 September 2026

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    Analog Photography

    Film, contact sheets, darkroom labor, and material imperfection treated as part of the image—not an effect applied afterward

    Added3 September 2026

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    Bento UI

    Grid-locked modular layouts with dense information architecture, rounded corners, and bright accent cards on dark backgrounds

    Added3 September 2026

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    Documentary Photography

    Long-form photography rooted in real lives, accountable observation, and the context around a subject

    Added3 September 2026

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    Editorial Interface

    Magazine-inspired digital design with serif headlines, columnar text blocks, generous whitespace, and a restrained palette that lets typography lead

    Added3 September 2026

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    Editorial Photography

    A photograph shaped by an idea: art direction, styling, location, and gesture working as one visual argument

    Added3 September 2026

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    Hyperpop

    Maximalist, glitchy, and loud, with chrome type, neon gradients, and a deliberate overload that treats restraint as the enemy

    Added3 September 2026

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    Kitsch

    Deliberately excessive, sentimental, and mass-produced. Flamingos, gold frames, velvet, and airbrushed sunsets embraced without irony

    Added3 September 2026

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    Magical Realism

    Everyday scenes with one quietly impossible element, where photography meets a gentle surrealism that never explains itself

    Added3 September 2026

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    Photorealism

    Camera-level detail rebuilt by hand: reflections, chrome and ordinary daylight painted with the gesture taken out

    Added3 September 2026

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    Portrait Photography

    The face and body as a collaboration between subject, photographer, light, and surrounding world

    Added3 September 2026

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    Risograph

    Soy-ink layered printing with charming misregistration, halftone grain, and limited spot colours that overlap into unexpected hues

    Added3 September 2026

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    Soft Utility

    Warm functional design with rounded inputs, earth-toned palettes, paper textures, and an approachable softness that makes tools feel friendly

    Added3 September 2026

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    Street Photography

    Unscripted public life caught at the instant gesture, light, and geometry lock together

    Added3 September 2026

Added August 2026

9 styles

New design styles added to the library in August 2026.

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    Rave

    Warehouse party culture: sound systems, strobe haze, and the spaces where the night happens

    Added31 August 2026

  2. 74

    Arcology

    A city compressed into a living vertical ecosystem - housing, transit, farms, water, work, and civic life stacked into one climate-responsive organism.

    Added30 August 2026

  3. 75

    Aurora

    Luminous gradient fields that bleed through one another like polar light, with no hard edges and no visible source

    Added29 August 2026

  4. 76

    Bohemian

    Layered pattern, warm earth pigment and handmade texture, collected over time rather than designed in one pass

    Added29 August 2026

  5. 77

    Clay Style

    Soft extruded 3D forms with rounded edges and matte, unlit surfaces, as if pressed from modelling clay

    Added29 August 2026

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    Surreal Dreamcore

    Bright pastel interiors where aqua water, low clouds and impossible daylight calmly overtake familiar spaces

    Added29 August 2026

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    Victorian

    Dense nineteenth-century ornament: engraved detail, deep jewel colour and every surface earning its keep through decoration

    Added29 August 2026

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    Screen Printing

    A stencil-through-mesh process defined by dense flat ink, layered color, halftones, and the productive tension of registration

    Added11 August 2026

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    Japandi

    Warm minimalism born from Japanese wabi-sabi and Scandinavian hygge. Natural materials, craftsmanship over decoration, quiet functionality that feels both serene and lived-in

    Added6 August 2026