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Portuguese Cork — Cover

About Portuguese Cork

Portuguese cork is the look of a harvested material doing its own talking. The warm, lightly speckled tan face of a cork sheet sits against the darker, charred-brown outer bark of the cork-oak plank, and the whole system leans on that contrast — texture over ornament, matte over gloss.

Born from the contemporary sustainable-materials moment, it reads as clean, humanist, and tactile. Geometric and humanist sans-serifs carry the type, generous breathing room surrounds the content, and a single olive-green pulled from the oak canopy keeps the earthy palette honest. Nothing here is loud; everything is grounded.

Learn more about the Portuguese Cork style

Origin
Portugal — the montado cork-oak landscape, Western Europe
Era
2010–now (contemporary sustainable-materials branding; the Amorim era)
Key figures
Corticeira Amorim
Movements
Sustainable / natural-material design · Contemporary humanist-sans branding

Portuguese Cork design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

JostHeadings
Work SansBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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