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About Op Art (Riley / Vasarely)

Op Art turned perception itself into the medium. In the 1960s, Bridget Riley's undulating monochrome stripes and Victor Vasarely's impossible cubes proved that pure geometry could make a static image vibrate, flicker, and seem to move. The 1965 MoMA exhibition "The Responsive Eye" crystallized the movement into a global visual language.

The design system inherits that discipline: maximum-contrast black and white, hard edges, zero radius, flat surfaces, and mathematical grids. Color enters only as signal — Vasarely's primaries — never as decoration. Every line is calculated; nothing is hand-drawn.

Learn more about the Op Art (Riley / Vasarely) style

Origin
London / Paris / New York
Era
1960s peak (MoMA 'The Responsive Eye', 1965); roots in 1950s Bauhaus color theory
Key figures
Bridget Riley · Victor Vasarely · Josef Albers · Jesús Rafael Soto
Movements
Op Art · Kinetic Art · Hard-edge painting

Op Art (Riley / Vasarely) design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

Space GroteskHeadings
IBM Plex SansBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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