About Sidi Bou Said Blue
Sidi Bou Said is the Tunisian clifftop village whose whitewashed houses wear their doors, shutters, and wrought iron in a single saturated cobalt-cyan — the "Tunisian blue" fixed in the 1920s by Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger. Above the Mediterranean, lime-white plaster and iron-black studs frame this deep painted blue.
This system makes the page itself the blue: a saturated cobalt-cyan ground, with crisp lime-white plaster as the accent and wrought-iron curls, nailhead studs, and mashrabiya lattice as recurring motifs. Reem Kufi and Amiri honor the Maghrebi-Arabic display register; Jost provides a clean Mediterranean Latin sans.
- Origin
- Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia (Mediterranean clifftop near Carthage/Tunis)
- Era
- 1900–1950 (the blue-and-white codification, 1920s onward)
- Key figures
- Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger
- Movements
- Tunisian Mediterranean vernacular · Andalusian-Ottoman decorative tradition · Maghrebi blue-and-white architecture
Sidi Bou Said Blue design spec
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