*The Scream* (1893) is Northern European Expressionism's founding image — a pastel-on-cardboard cry made on the Ekeberg fjord-bridge under a sky Munch called "blood and tongues of fire". The whole landscape bends in sympathy with the figure: sky, water, railing and air itself ripple in shared dread.

This system translates that anxiety into interface language: warm-blood sky against cold-bruise water, fin-de-siècle serifs in deep umber, undulating horizontal bands instead of straight rules, and a vertiginous diagonal that pulls the eye toward an off-stage vanishing point.