Kuba carved cosmetic boxes and divination tools from the central Congo are made of dark hardwood and calabash gourd, rubbed with palm oil to a deep tobacco-brown sheen and incised with dense interlace geometry. Camwood — tukula — powder rubbed into the carving fills the cut designs with red-orange.

This design system distills that matte, hand-carved prestige object into screen language: a dark calabash-brown ground carrying tobacco-brown carved panels, signature tukula red-orange relief accents, and refined serif type. The ground is wood, never cream.