Persepolis distills Marjane Satrapi's childhood under the Iranian Revolution into a rigorous black-and-white visual language — heavy ink, flat silhouettes, and the chador as page-black shape. The aesthetic draws on Persian miniature economy, German Expressionist woodcuts, and David B.'s French alt-comics tradition.

This design system translates that stark memoir vocabulary into interface tokens: cream paper grounds, bold black ink borders, revolution-red accents used only at moments of emphasis, and warm classical serifs that honor the L'Association literary-comics lineage.