Split Ink Monumental Editorial

{
  "style_name": "Split Ink Monumental Editorial",
  "style_slug": "split-ink-monumental-editorial",
  "style_version": "custom-16x9-9x16-1.0",
  "style_summary": "A high-contrast editorial-collage system built from a strict warm-cream and vermilion split field, enormous cropped black letter architecture, a central monochrome full-body subject, and tactile foreground forms. A crumpled red material and an angular dark backdrop provide diagonal drama while microtype, dot grids, and distressed ink create a dense screenprinted poster surface.",
  "category": "Editorial + Minimal",
  "environment_variables": {
    "SUBJECT": "main subject",
    "SUBJECT_ACTION": "main action",
    "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "object, product, or prop",
    "LOCATION": "environment or setting",
    "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "secondary scene details",
    "MAIN_TEXT": "main headline or graphic text",
    "SECONDARY_TEXT": "supporting text",
    "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "decorative symbol",
    "WARDROBE_STYLE": "styling direction",
    "STYLE_FIDELITY_ANCHORS": "top-level style constants injected at render time",
    "SOURCE_CONTENT_TO_AVOID": "top-level content exclusions injected at render time",
    "ASPECT_RATIO": "16:9 or 9:16 injected at render time"
  },
  "style_fidelity_anchors": [
    "Divide the main field into a hard-edged warm-cream block and a saturated vermilion block, with an intentional vertical or near-vertical seam acting as a primary compositional axis.",
    "Use monumental near-black uppercase geometric sans-serif letters as cropped vertical architectural slabs behind and around the subject, not as a small headline above the scene.",
    "Let the oversized type alternate between solid black strokes and cream counter-shapes cut out from the vermilion field, so the type becomes part of the background structure.",
    "Place one full-body adult subject in a high-contrast monochrome or reduced-color collage treatment, bridging the seam and overlapping the letter architecture.",
    "Use a large angular dark folded fabric, canopy, paper sculpture, or industrial tarp behind the subject as a single diagonal silhouette; do not use feathered wings or a character-like body extension.",
    "Include one heavy crumpled vermilion textile, map, or material near the subject's lower half, creating a soft irregular counter-shape to the hard giant type.",
    "Build a low foreground ledge from generic non-creature forms such as agave leaves, stacked paper, concrete fragments, or abstract rock; it must support or frame the subject without copying monster heads.",
    "Add a compact black halftone-dot matrix in one upper vermilion zone and one or two sparse geometric symbols such as a plus, short rule, or hollow circle in the cream zone.",
    "Use tiny black technical microcopy blocks as texture in cream pockets, kept secondary and not intended as readable narrative prose.",
    "Apply visibly distressed ink, grain, ink-splatter erosion, rough screenprint edges, and photocopy wear to red fields and black letterforms.",
    "Keep the palette limited to warm cream, vermilion red, near-black, off-white highlights, and at most a muted olive/stone foreground accent; avoid full-color scenes."
  ],
  "source_content_to_avoid": [
    "The source's winged armored warrior, sword, feathered black wing, flowing red cape, and recognizable fantasy-character silhouette.",
    "The crocodile or reptile creatures, their heads, scales, teeth, and the original monster-versus-warrior narrative.",
    "The source headline and all original black letter forms, vertical word arrangement, microtext, dot positions, and symbolic mark locations.",
    "The exact red-and-cream split proportions, exact central figure pose, paper folds, weapon diagonals, and lower-creature framing.",
    "Any source franchise, character name, logo, watermark, artist credit, username, or copied fantasy-world context.",
    "The original armor, wing anatomy, cape styling, weapon shape, creature design, and historical-fantasy battle setting.",
    "Any direct recreation of a heroic winged fighter standing over green monsters."
  ],
  "visual_deconstruction": "The reference derives force from a collision between graphic geometry and tactile collage. A cream-red split field creates two competing color worlds. Giant black letter strokes build an almost architectural backdrop in the red half, while the central figure crosses the seam and interrupts its readability. A single black diagonal mass rises behind the figure, and an irregular red cloth mass softens the lower center. The low dark-green organic forms act like a platform or threat at the bottom edge. Tiny symbols, dots, and microtype offer measured technical restraint against the maximal figure-and-type collision. Distressed ink on the red and black areas unifies the disparate collage layers.",
  "composition": "For 9:16, split the upper two-thirds into a warm-cream left or center block and vermilion right or side block. Stack giant black letter slabs vertically through the colored field, then bridge the split with a near-full-height adult collage subject. Raise one dark angular folded material behind the upper torso and place a crumpled red material around the lower figure. Use a new non-creature foreground platform at the base. For 16:9, shift the seam or make it slightly off-center, use a wider giant type field spanning one side and allow the central subject to stride laterally across the split. Keep the dot matrix and technical microcopy in separate quiet areas. Every case must change the location, central action, prop, type rhythm, diagonal silhouette, and foreground structure; never rebuild the source hero-over-monsters tableau.",
  "typography": "Use ultra-heavy uppercase geometric sans-serif in near-black, oversized until several letters crop beyond the canvas. Treat the word as a stack of vertical or broad structural slabs rather than a conventional title. The main word should be a single short invented directive such as FORM, TRACE, BUILD, or ROOT. Use black strokes and cream counter-shapes over vermilion. Secondary copy is tiny compact sans-serif or monospaced text blocks, never elegant script, fantasy lettering, source wording, or dense readable paragraphs.",
  "color_palette": "Use roughly 42% saturated vermilion, 32% warm cream, 19% near-black, 5% off-white highlight, and no more than 2% muted olive or gray-stone in a foreground platform. Vermilion should be flat but distressed; cream should feel like uncoated stock. Avoid blue, cyan, violet, neon, gold, metallic sheen, rainbow gradients, and saturated natural scenery.",
  "image_treatment": "Use cut-and-paste editorial collage with a high-contrast monochrome or selectively reduced-color adult subject. Integrate the figure through rough white edge highlights, coarse halftone shadows, photocopied grain, and spray-like ink erosion. The dark folded material should have rough paper/fabric texture rather than biological feathers. The lower platform should be stylized, non-threatening, and clearly non-creature. Avoid polished 3D fantasy rendering, cinematic skin retouching, smooth vector blocks, or hyperreal animals.",
  "design_rules": [
    "Make the cream-versus-vermilion field split and oversized black type the first-read structural system.",
    "Use a full-body new adult subject, non-fantasy action, and a non-weapon practical prop that crosses the split field.",
    "Use one diagonal dark folded material and one crumpled vermilion mass, but never a wing, cape, sword, or character-specific silhouette.",
    "Frame the base with a generic plant, paper, concrete, or stone platform, explicitly not animals, reptiles, teeth, scales, or monsters.",
    "Limit technical accents to one dot matrix, one to two symbols, and short microtype blocks; preserve large quiet areas in the cream field.",
    "Rebuild the split ratio, type rhythm, subject pose, and foreground platform for 16:9 and 9:16 independently."
  ],
  "do": [
    "Use a warm-cream/vermilion split field, black monumental type, rough print wear, and a central collage subject.",
    "Create tension between hard architectural letterforms and a crumpled material silhouette.",
    "Use small measured graphic details such as dot grids, plus signs, rings, and technical microcopy."
  ],
  "avoid": [
    "Do not reuse a winged warrior, sword, cape, armored hero, reptiles, monster heads, source text, or fantasy battle story.",
    "Do not add detailed full-color scenery, shiny metallic rendering, ornate fantasy type, polished 3D art, or extra bright hues.",
    "Do not make the lower foreground resemble a creature, use source-specific glyphs, or crowd the page with many badges and labels."
  ],
  "prompt_template": "Create a finished {ASPECT_RATIO} editorial poster in the literal Split Ink Monumental Editorial visual system. Subject: {SUBJECT}. Action: {SUBJECT_ACTION}. Prop/product: {PRODUCT_OR_PROP}. Location: {LOCATION}. Background: {BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS}. Main text: {MAIN_TEXT}. Secondary text: {SECONDARY_TEXT}. Accent symbol: {ACCENT_SYMBOL}. Wardrobe/styling: {WARDROBE_STYLE}. Preserve these observable style anchors: {STYLE_FIDELITY_ANCHORS}. Do not recreate these source-specific elements: {SOURCE_CONTENT_TO_AVOID}. Build a hard-edged warm-cream and saturated vermilion split field. Use enormous cropped near-black uppercase geometric sans-serif letter slabs as architecture around the subject, including cream counter-shapes within the vermilion type field. Place one full-body adult collage subject bridging the split. Add a large angular dark folded tarp, canopy, paper sculpture, or fabric silhouette behind the upper body and a crumpled vermilion non-cape material around the lower body. Establish a low generic non-creature platform made of plant leaves, stacked paper, concrete, or stone. Add one black halftone-dot matrix, one or two simple geometric symbols, faint microtype, and rough screenprint distress. Preserve a limited palette of cream, vermilion, black, off-white, and minimal muted olive/stone. Create a new non-fantasy story, new prop, new action, and new type arrangement. Avoid wings, armor, swords, capes, reptiles, monsters, teeth, scales, source character, source words, source glyph layout, franchise marks, watermarks, 3D fantasy art, glossy rendering, blue/green/metallic bright colors, dense labels, malformed limbs, or unreadable text.",
  "negative_prompt": "No winged warrior, no sword, no armor, no feathered wing, no red cape, no reptile, no crocodile, no monster head, no teeth, no scales, no fantasy battle, no source phrase, no source glyphs, no copied central pose, no source dot position, no franchise name, no logo, no watermark, no username, no ornate fantasy letters, no glossy 3D rendering, no cinematic rainbow color, no blue/cyan/violet/neon/gold, no extra badges, no distorted anatomy, and no unreadable headline.",
  "examples": [
    {
      "case_name": "map-maker",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "an adult urban map maker with short braided hair in reduced-color collage treatment",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "standing on a stack of folded city plans while measuring a route with a long survey ruler",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a plain aluminum survey ruler and folded unbranded paper map",
        "LOCATION": "an abstract public-planning archive with no identifiable city",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "warm-cream/vermilion split field, large black FORM type slabs, angular dark folded map canopy, crumpled red survey tarp, agave leaves and concrete fragments at base",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "FORM",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "CITY FIELD / FIND THE PATH",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "PLUS AND HOLLOW RING",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "dark canvas jacket, cream work shirt, black practical shoes, no armor or cape"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "paper-architect",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "an adult paper architect with close-cropped hair and a concentrated downward gaze",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "stepping across a low stack of cardboard models while holding a large drafting triangle",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "an unbranded black drafting triangle and rolled white paper",
        "LOCATION": "a minimal model-making workshop implied only by the collage",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "cream/vermilion split, vertical black BUILD letter architecture, angular folded black paper sculpture, crumpled red packing paper, layered cardboard and stone shapes at base",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "BUILD",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "MODEL NOTE / MAKE THE EDGE",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "SHORT RULE AND DOT MATRIX",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "plain black sleeveless utility vest over a white tee, charcoal pants, simple trainers"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "field-botanist",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "an adult field botanist with a natural curly updo and a practical focused expression",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "kneeling lightly on a stone ledge to label a pressed-leaf folio",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a flat cream specimen folio and black clip pencil, no weapon",
        "LOCATION": "an abstract dryland research site, not a fantasy world",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "warm-cream and vermilion split, monumental black ROOT letter slabs, folded dark shade cloth, crumpled red field fabric, muted olive agave and stones in foreground",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "ROOT",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "SPECIMEN INDEX / HOLD THE GROUND",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "TINY LEAF TICK",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "dark field overshirt, cream trousers, plain hiking boots, no armor or cape"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "stage-builder",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "an adult stage builder with a shaved head and determined profile",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "pulling a large measuring tape across a low modular platform",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a plain retractable tape measure and folded black fabric panel",
        "LOCATION": "an abstract backstage construction zone with no theater brand or show context",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "slightly off-center cream/vermilion split, huge black TRACE lettering, angular dark folded stage cloth, crumpled red packing textile, stacked foam blocks and paper scraps at base",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "TRACE",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "SET PLAN 12 / HOLD THE LINE",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "HOLLOW CIRCLE AND PLUS",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "black work shirt, faded gray cargo pants, dark safety boots, no costume or armor"
      }
    }
  ]
}