Cobalt Pop Cutout Editorial

{
  "style_name": "Cobalt Pop Cutout Editorial",
  "style_slug": "cobalt-pop-cutout-editorial",
  "style_version": "2.1",
  "style_summary": "A high-saturation editorial poster system that combines one low-angle full-body photographic cutout with oversized irregular orange display lettering, a cobalt-to-sky-blue field, flat green organic edge shapes, and tiny cream callouts. The look is playful, spacious, and street-culture adjacent without becoming grungy or collage-dense.",
  "category": "Editorial + Minimal",
  "environment_variables": {
    "SUBJECT": "main photographic subject",
    "SUBJECT_ACTION": "clear body action or gesture",
    "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "single foreground object or visual anchor",
    "LOCATION": "real-world environment or setting",
    "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "two or three restrained scene details",
    "MAIN_TEXT": "short oversized headline",
    "SECONDARY_TEXT": "brief supporting microcopy",
    "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "small arrow, chevron, sparkle, or geometric mark",
    "WARDROBE_STYLE": "high-saturation editorial wardrobe direction",
    "STYLE_FIDELITY_ANCHORS": "observable style traits that must remain visible",
    "SOURCE_CONTENT_TO_AVOID": "literal source content that generated samples must not recreate",
    "ASPECT_RATIO": "4:5 or 5:4"
  },
  "style_fidelity_anchors": [
    "A saturated cobalt-to-sky-blue field fills nearly the entire frame, with only restrained environmental details allowed near the lower edge.",
    "One crisp full-body photographic cutout dominates the center at roughly 55 to 70 percent of the frame height.",
    "The camera sits below waist level with a mild wide-angle upward perspective that makes the subject and foreground anchor feel monumental.",
    "A single oversized warm-orange headline spans the upper third, using solid-fill, chunky, hand-warped display letters on an uneven baseline.",
    "The photographic subject overlaps and obscures part of the headline so type and portrait read as one layered composition.",
    "Large flat botanical-green ribbons or amoebic blobs enter from two or more frame edges and behave as a loose organic border.",
    "Tiny warm-cream or yellow arrow symbols and compact sans-serif microcopy occupy the side margins as sparse editorial callouts.",
    "Thin cobalt registration bars, short underlines, or tiny geometric cuts interrupt selected orange letter edges as secondary accents.",
    "The palette stays near 60 percent blue, 18 percent green, 17 percent orange, and 5 percent cream, with very high saturation and no neutral wash.",
    "The photo treatment uses crisp cutout edges, punchy daylight contrast, saturated cool shadows, and warm highlights without heavy grain or halftone.",
    "The layout remains sparse and poster-like: one subject, one foreground anchor, one headline, and no more than three micro-callout clusters.",
    "The overall mood is upbeat, irreverent, youthful editorial street culture expressed through clean digital compositing rather than distressed zine texture."
  ],
  "source_content_to_avoid": [
    "The identifiable young Black man from the reference, including his face, cap, beard, expression, or body silhouette.",
    "A person seated astride a large yellow or orange fire hydrant or any hydrant used as a pedestal.",
    "The head-resting-on-hand pose, dangling seated posture, and legs framing the central pedestal.",
    "The specific green crewneck sweater, baggy cobalt trousers, white crew socks, and white sneaker outfit combination.",
    "The exact outdoor utility-street setting with the same power poles, overhead wires, and sky arrangement.",
    "The exact orange headline letterforms and wording shown across the upper half of the source image.",
    "The phrases ICONIC VIBES, The title doesn't matter Colors matter, and Dimensions are more important And the picture is art.",
    "The source image's precise green squiggle paths, arrow placements, blue letter tabs, and microcopy coordinates.",
    "Any watermark, username, creator signature, platform logo, brand mark, QR code, or identity mark."
  ],
  "visual_deconstruction": {
    "overall_style": "Contemporary photo-cutout editorial poster with bold pop color blocking and playful hand-distorted display type.",
    "composition_logic": "A vertical stack runs from giant background headline to central human cutout to one oversized foreground anchor; edge blobs and tiny side notes create asymmetrical balance.",
    "subject_placement": "The subject is centered slightly below mid-frame, overlaps the headline, and remains readable as one isolated silhouette.",
    "camera_and_perspective": "Low viewpoint with a restrained wide-angle lens; the nearest prop is enlarged while the background stays simple and nearly flat.",
    "typography_behavior": "One short, loud, irregular orange word or phrase supplies mass; supporting text is tiny, clean, cream-colored, and secondary.",
    "color_behavior": "Cobalt blue is the dominant field, orange carries headline and focal accents, green frames the image, and cream is reserved for micro-details.",
    "graphic_grammar": "Broad organic edge ribbons, small directional arrows, short underlines, narrow registration tabs, and an occasional sparkle.",
    "texture_and_finish": "Clean digital cutout compositing with slightly sharpened editorial photography, solid vector-like fills, and minimal surface noise.",
    "lighting": "Hard-to-medium natural daylight with warm highlights, cool saturated shadows, and clear separation from the graphic background.",
    "mood": "Confident, playful, colorful, youthful, and culturally current without relying on a specific person or brand."
  },
  "composition": {
    "hierarchy": "Headline first as a color mass, subject immediately after as the photographic focal point, foreground prop third, then microcopy and symbols.",
    "subject_scale": "Keep the subject large and full-body, usually 55 to 70 percent of frame height, with a clean silhouette and no crowd.",
    "headline_zone": "Place a single huge headline across the upper third or upper half, partially behind the subject, while preserving enough blue field to keep the layout breathable.",
    "foreground_anchor": "Use one distinct object low in the frame to create depth; it may crop at the bottom but must not become a fire hydrant or imitate the source pedestal.",
    "edge_framing": "Allow green organic shapes to enter from corners and sides, never covering the face, main gesture, or full headline.",
    "aspect_adaptation": "For 4:5, use a taller central stack and stronger bottom crop. For 5:4, widen the headline and distribute callouts into the side margins while keeping one centered subject."
  },
  "typography": {
    "display_face": "Custom-looking chunky uppercase display letters with playful swelling, tapering, uneven widths, and an irregular hand-set baseline; solid orange fill with no outline.",
    "headline_length": "Prefer one or two very short words totaling four to ten characters so the type can remain monumental.",
    "layering": "The central photo cutout must overlap selected letters, while enough of every word remains inferable and visually dominant.",
    "microcopy": "Use a compact geometric sans serif in warm cream, set in two to four short lines at a tiny scale and aligned near an accent arrow.",
    "accent_treatment": "Add at most three small cobalt tabs, cuts, or short rules over orange letter edges; keep them secondary and crisp."
  },
  "color_palette": {
    "deep_cobalt": "#0043B8 — upper field, cool shadow reinforcement, registration details",
    "sky_blue": "#579FE2 — lower field and subtle vertical atmospheric transition",
    "signal_orange": "#FFA10A — giant headline and primary focal accents",
    "botanical_green": "#40986B — flat organic edge ribbons and selective wardrobe notes",
    "warm_cream": "#F4EED5 — microcopy, small symbols, footwear or tiny highlights",
    "distribution": "Approximately 60 percent blue, 18 percent green, 17 percent orange, and 5 percent cream; avoid adding competing hues."
  },
  "photographic_direction": {
    "subject_capture": "Photoreal editorial full-body portrait, isolated with a clean digital cutout and believable anatomy.",
    "lens_and_angle": "Use a 24 to 30 millimeter equivalent lens from a low camera position, with moderate foreground enlargement rather than extreme fisheye distortion.",
    "lighting": "Bright outdoor daylight or a daylight-matched studio source with defined warm highlights and saturated blue-green shadows.",
    "grading": "Punchy contrast, vivid but controlled saturation, warm skin, cobalt shadow bias, and crisp clothing texture.",
    "integration": "Treat the photo as a clean editorial cutout layered over flat graphics; avoid painterly rendering, 3D character styling, or soft cinematic depth of field."
  },
  "design_rules": [
    "Begin with the blue field and one enormous orange headline before placing any photographic content.",
    "Use exactly one dominant full-body subject and one foreground prop or visual anchor.",
    "Keep the subject centered and low-angle, then interlock it with the headline through controlled overlap.",
    "Frame the composition with two to four broad green organic intrusions from the outer edges.",
    "Limit annotation to one secondary text block and no more than three tiny arrow, chevron, rule, or sparkle clusters.",
    "Preserve clean solid-color geometry and crisp cutout edges; all texture should come mainly from the photograph.",
    "Adapt spacing to the target ratio without turning the 5:4 version into a multi-panel or panoramic scene.",
    "Keep literal content new even when composition, palette proportions, and graphic grammar remain strongly consistent."
  ],
  "do": [
    "Use short legible headline copy and allow the subject to cover only part of it.",
    "Choose one active gesture with a readable full-body silhouette and a clear relationship to the new prop.",
    "Preserve generous blue negative space around the headline, face, and microcopy.",
    "Keep green shapes broad, flat, smooth-edged, and visibly separate from the photographic cutout.",
    "Make each new scene immediately distinct from the reference while retaining the same visual family."
  ],
  "avoid": [
    "No fire hydrants, seated head-in-hand poses, source wardrobe combination, source text, source face, or utility-street story premise.",
    "No dense sticker collage, torn paper, ransom lettering, halftone field, photocopy noise, heavy grunge, or spray-paint texture.",
    "No gradients outside the restrained cobalt-to-sky-blue atmospheric field and no extra rainbow colors.",
    "No multiple people, crowded product arrays, complex city panoramas, interface panels, badges, prices, or promotional clutter.",
    "No painterly illustration, anime rendering, plastic 3D character, extreme fisheye anatomy, soft luxury photography, or cinematic bokeh.",
    "No watermark, username, social platform logo, creator mark, QR code, corporate logo, or signature."
  ],
  "prompt_template": "Create a {ASPECT_RATIO} editorial poster in the \"Cobalt Pop Cutout Editorial\" visual style.\n\nStyle priority: preserve these observable anchors before introducing new content: {STYLE_FIDELITY_ANCHORS}\nDo not reproduce any of this literal source content: {SOURCE_CONTENT_TO_AVOID}\n\nSubject: {SUBJECT}\nAction: {SUBJECT_ACTION}\nProp or visual anchor: {PRODUCT_OR_PROP}\nLocation: {LOCATION}\nBackground details: {BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS}\nMain headline: {MAIN_TEXT}\nSupporting microcopy: {SECONDARY_TEXT}\nAccent symbol: {ACCENT_SYMBOL}\nWardrobe: {WARDROBE_STYLE}\n\nBuild a sparse, high-impact hybrid photo-and-graphic poster. Fill nearly the entire frame with a saturated cobalt-to-sky-blue field. Place one crisp photoreal full-body subject centrally at 55 to 70 percent of the frame height, photographed from a low 24 to 30 millimeter equivalent viewpoint with mild upward perspective and believable anatomy. Use one foreground prop low in the frame to create depth.\n\nSet one enormous warm-orange headline across the upper third or upper half in chunky, solid-fill, hand-warped uppercase display lettering with swollen and tapered strokes, uneven widths, and an irregular baseline. Let the subject overlap selected letters while keeping the short headline inferable. Add only a few tiny cobalt registration tabs or short rules on letter edges.\n\nIntroduce two to four broad, flat botanical-green ribbons or amoebic blobs from the outer edges as an organic frame; they must not cover the face, main gesture, or headline. Add one compact warm-cream sans-serif microcopy block and no more than three tiny cream arrow, chevron, rule, or sparkle accents. Maintain a palette near 60 percent blue, 18 percent green, 17 percent orange, and 5 percent cream. Keep solid graphic fills clean and let visible texture come chiefly from the sharply graded daylight photograph.\n\nFor a 4:5 image, emphasize a tall central stack and a strong bottom crop. For a 5:4 image, widen the headline and use the side margins for sparse callouts while retaining one centered subject. The mood is confident, playful, colorful editorial street culture with clean digital compositing. Match the visual system first, then change the subject, action, prop, setting, text, and story.\n\nAvoid: no source identity or wording, no fire hydrant, no seated head-in-hand pose, no crowded collage, no multiple people, no torn paper, no ransom type, no halftone, no photocopy grit, no heavy film grain, no paint splatter, no spray paint, no 3D render, no illustration-only subject, no extreme fisheye, no soft cinematic bokeh, no muted palette, no rainbow colors, no logos, no watermark, no username, no QR code, and no signature.",
  "negative_prompt": "fire hydrant, person seated on a pedestal, head resting on hand, copied source face, copied source outfit, copied source text, identical layout, crowd, multiple subjects, dense collage, torn paper, ransom typography, halftone, photocopy noise, heavy grain, grunge, spray paint, paint splatter, extra rainbow hues, muted palette, painterly illustration, anime, plastic 3D character, extreme fisheye anatomy, malformed hands, duplicate limbs, cinematic bokeh, interface panels, product grid, pricing badges, watermark, username, logo, QR code, signature",
  "examples": [
    {
      "case_name": "record-route",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "a middle-aged woman DJ with close-cropped silver hair",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "stepping forward while lifting a translucent vinyl record above one shoulder",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a compact orange portable turntable case resting low in the foreground",
        "LOCATION": "a sunlit rooftop listening party",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "one distant water tower and two simple antenna silhouettes near the lower edge",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "SPIN ON",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "sound travels / city frequency",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "a small rising arrow",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "a cobalt utility vest over an orange tee with wide cream trousers"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "flower-run",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "a young bicycle florist with a short curly bob",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "striding toward the camera with a wrapped bundle of wildflowers tucked beneath one arm",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a chrome cargo bicycle with a blue front basket crossing the lower foreground",
        "LOCATION": "a bright seaside promenade",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "a slim horizon line, one distant sail, and a low rail kept visually quiet",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "FRESH RUN",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "flowers after sunrise",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "two stacked chevrons",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "an orange chore jacket, cream shorts, cobalt socks, and green trainers"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "clay-signal",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "an older woman ceramicist with cropped white curls",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "standing upright and raising a newly finished vessel toward the light",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a low wheeled studio cart carrying three geometric clay forms",
        "LOCATION": "an open-air ceramics workshop courtyard",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "one simple awning edge and two stacked kiln shelves near the bottom corners",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "SHAPE IT",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "hands make the future",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "a four-point sparkle",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "a cream work apron over a cobalt shirt with orange trousers and green clogs"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "sky-club",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "a teenage astronomy club member with braided hair",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "leaning forward to adjust a telescope while looking upward with an excited expression",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a compact cream telescope on a three-legged cobalt stand",
        "LOCATION": "the top deck of a daylight parking structure",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "a low concrete parapet, a tiny crescent icon, and one distant cloud near the horizon",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "LOOK UP",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "small worlds / wide skies",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "a bent directional arrow",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "an orange windbreaker, green knit vest, cream trousers, and cobalt sneakers"
      }
    }
  ]
}