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A lot of white space, monospace fonts, and spare color palettes this week with work from New York, Matosinhos, and Cape Town. Café Standard by Triboro Located inside trendy The Standard hotel in New York’s East Village, Café Standard has a lovely contrasting identity by local firm Triboro. Set against muted pink backgrounds the menus, coasters, and most adorable matchboxes ever, use a bold condensed sans serif paired with a rugged typewriter font. The contrast is really tasty and the red on pink color palette is one of my favorites. And, again, those matches, you guys! See full project here. Silarba by Another Collective Based in Matosinhos, Portugal, Silarba is a construction company that, oddly enough, has no photographic record of their projects. (I know, shady, but