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About Addis Ababa Modern

Addis Ababa Modern takes the optimistic, upright graphic language of Ethiopia's contemporary design scene and grounds it in coffee. Flag gold, Spanish green and geranium red are turned up to full saturation and set against a deep roasted-coffee brown, so the Pan-African palette reads as vivid as poster ink. This is urban, confident, forward-looking work. Ge'ez (Fidäl) letterforms stand beside clean rounded-geometric Latin type, paired rather than translated. Bold flat panels, emblem-disc circles and gold-on-coffee contrast carry the brand — no thin lines, no neutral editorial calm, no cliché.

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Origin
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Era
2010–now (contemporary Addis Ababa design scene)
Key figures
Ethiopian national flag 2009 spec · Ge'ez Fidäl abugida tradition · Noto Ethiopic type project · Abyssinica SIL
Movements
Pan-Africanism · Contemporary African graphic design · Coffee-culture branding

Addis Ababa Modern design spec

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Surface
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Typography

PoppinsHeadings
Work SansBody
Abyssinica SILMono
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