Signal Press is a small-run quarterly that treats the page like a press floor: visible grid, blunt headlines, and one fluorescent ink shifted just out of register. Read it on screen, then hold the proof.
Columns, gutters and rule dividers stay visible. The page admits it was assembled: taped, pulled and proofed.
A single fluorescent plate, orange or acid lime, marks one idea per spread. Never a background wash, never a glow.
Plates misregister on purpose, and every block reads like a mounted poster.
Measured on the proof for issue 14. We do not correct it.
Most interfaces hide their construction behind seamless polish. Signal Press does the opposite. The masthead anchors the top, the feature well runs the centre and a utility rail carries the controls, so you can see every one of them.
The look comes from real production: photocopy grain, registration marks and a second ink pulled slightly off register. It reads as printed matter because it was built like printed matter.
Quarterly, 1,200 copies, cream pulp. Nine dollars with shipping.