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Chinese tea · pink, lime and drips

The letters drip and the cup grows wings

Thirty-four Chinese teas cut out and dropped into hot pink and acid lime, surrounded by marker doodles and printed with a coarse halftone dot.

A circle of ripe pu-erh on a hot pink ground with a lime glow, under dripping black arched letters, beside a winged teacup with a halo

Seven categories, all of them loud

34 teas · 7 categories

Green teaGreen tea5 teasOolongOolong14 teasRed tea (hongcha)Red tea (hongcha)6 teasPu-erhPu-erh4 teasWhite teaWhite tea2 teasTea paste (chagao)Tea paste (chagao)2 teasBuckwheat (not a tea)Buckwheat (not a tea)1 tea

Wear the drip

All tees and hoodies →

Wear — Ālǐshān Zhū Lù CháĀlǐshān Zhū Lù CháWear — Bái JiānBái JiānWear — Passion-Fruit OolongPassion-Fruit OolongWear — Raw Pu-erh PasteRaw Pu-erh PasteWear — Ripe Pu-erh PasteRipe Pu-erh PasteWear — Dà Hóng PáoDà Hóng Páo

Why a serious leaf was put on a sticker sheet

Chinese tea is usually sold with mist, monks and a font that whispers, and that sales pitch has been aimed at the same buyer for thirty years. This page is aimed at someone who found tea through a group chat rather than a ceremony. The coarse halftone and the drips come from cheap printing, which is honest about the fact that a t-shirt graphic is cheap printing. The leaf stays a real photograph and never gets drawn, so the one truthful object on the page is the product. Pink and lime were chosen because no tea is either colour, which means the leaf can never be confused with the decoration. The doodles are a margin, not a message, and the tea in the middle is graded and named exactly as it is everywhere else in the network.