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About Teenage Engineering OP-1

Teenage Engineering's OP-1 is a CNC-machined, powder-coated aluminium synthesizer whose entire body — housing, keys, and knobs — is a single cool light grey. The only saturated color comes from four rotary encoder caps in blue, green, orange, and white.

This design system translates that hardware logic to screen: a uniform machined-grey ground, technical monospace labels in uppercase, fine seams and precise small radii, with color reserved strictly for tiny instrument-panel dots.

Learn more about the Teenage Engineering OP-1 style

Origin
Stockholm, Sweden
Era
2010–now (OP-1 launched 2011; OP-1 field 2022)
Key figures
Jesper Kouthoofd · Teenage Engineering
Movements
Scandinavian hardware minimalism · Pocket-operator / portable synth design language

Teenage Engineering OP-1 design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

Space MonoHeadings
ArchivoBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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