Surreal Megatype Dossier Collage

{
  "style_name": "Surreal Megatype Dossier Collage",
  "style_slug": "surreal-megatype-dossier-collage",
  "style_version": "2.1.0",
  "style_summary": "A dense neo-editorial poster system that layers monumental white filled and outlined typography behind a centered surreal photographic cutout sculpture, then frames it with technical microcopy, serial numbers, ruled panels, small warning labels, celestial symbols, and coarse vintage print grain on a deep black field.",
  "category": "Zine + Collage",
  "environment_variables": {
    "SUBJECT": "The monumental central subject or surreal object assemblage",
    "SUBJECT_ACTION": "The subject's symbolic action or transformation",
    "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "Objects, materials, tools, or props fused into the central collage",
    "LOCATION": "The poster environment or implied setting",
    "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "Secondary imagery, diagrams, labels, or supporting collage fragments",
    "MAIN_TEXT": "Short oversized headline repeated as filled and outlined display type",
    "SECONDARY_TEXT": "Small editorial microcopy, serial data, or dossier captions",
    "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "A simple celestial, directional, or technical separator symbol",
    "WARDROBE_STYLE": "Human styling direction, material draping, or a no-people styling note",
    "STYLE_FIDELITY_ANCHORS": "Observable visual traits that must remain visible",
    "SOURCE_CONTENT_TO_AVOID": "Literal source content and identity marks that generated samples must not recreate",
    "ASPECT_RATIO": "4:5 or 5:4"
  },
  "style_fidelity_anchors": [
    "Deep black poster field with dense edge-to-edge editorial information and very little empty space.",
    "Monumental white uppercase sans-serif headline repeated in stacked rows, alternating solid fill, thin outline, and reversed or mirrored treatments.",
    "One centered surreal photographic cutout sculpture occupying roughly two-thirds of the frame and overlapping the background type.",
    "Front-facing montage perspective with shallow layered depth, crisp cutout contours, and an iconic monument-like silhouette.",
    "Restricted palette led by black and off-white, with rust orange and cool cyan inside the hero collage plus tiny yellow and red warning accents.",
    "Top utility strip and bottom dossier panel built from thin rules, small labels, serial numbers, pseudo-technical diagrams, and barcode-like line textures.",
    "Small celestial and navigational symbols such as four-point stars, orbital rings, arrows, and symmetrical ornaments used as separators.",
    "Coarse halftone, photocopy grain, ink speckle, slight registration drift, and softened photographic detail across the whole poster.",
    "High-contrast flat poster lighting combined with localized glossy highlights on the central photographic materials.",
    "Layered editorial typography remains partially obscured by the hero object while the short main words stay recognizable.",
    "Mood combines underground music-poster energy, speculative spiritual symbolism, Y2K editorial graphics, and archival warning-label precision."
  ],
  "source_content_to_avoid": [
    "The original side-profile human head or bust wrapped in striped orange and cyan fabric.",
    "White doves or pigeons flying around the figure, red flowers placed in the face collage, and moon-like spheres in the same arrangement.",
    "The exact phrases DON’T CRY, DON’T YOU CRY, SILENT KILLERS, CRYTHINGS.CO, or any copied mental-health explanatory text.",
    "The yellow DON’T CRY placard, the handwritten signature above the headline, and the small circular face icons.",
    "The source poster's exact stacked word order, identical silhouette, matching crop, or the same symbolic narrative.",
    "The visible serial numbers, year marks, rating-style label, trademark sign, barcode, and footer ornaments from the source.",
    "Any real organization name, campaign identity, brand logo, watermark, username, creator signature, platform mark, or QR code.",
    "Identifiable real people, celebrity likenesses, copied faces, or protected album and campaign artwork."
  ],
  "visual_deconstruction": {
    "overall_style_category": "Neo-editorial surreal photo-collage poster with Y2K dossier graphics and vintage photocopied zine texture.",
    "composition_and_layout": "A dense rectangular poster grid: a narrow utility strip at the top, three or four oversized headline rows behind the subject, one monumental central collage, small side data blocks, a boxed dossier footer, and a final microcopy line with symmetric ornaments.",
    "subject_placement": "The hero collage is centered, vertically dominant, and allowed to obscure large portions of the display typography while leaving enough outer letterforms visible to establish repetition.",
    "camera_or_perspective": "Straight-on cutout montage with shallow overlap rather than a deep photographic scene; spherical fragments and draped materials add localized volume.",
    "typography_style": "Extra-bold grotesk uppercase mixed with oversized monoline outline duplicates, occasional reversal or mirroring, compact utility sans text, serial numerals, and one small expressive label accent.",
    "color_palette_behavior": "Black and warm white carry most of the page; the central object concentrates rust orange and desaturated cyan; yellow and red appear only as small high-priority labels or botanical-like accents.",
    "graphic_elements": "Thin rules, framed panels, orbital rings, four-point stars, arrows, serial codes, technical stamps, barcode-like line fields, symmetrical footer ornaments, and small geometric badges.",
    "texture_and_finish": "Visible halftone dots, paper tooth, photocopy noise, coarse screen-print grain, mild edge wear, muted photo detail, and slight color misregistration.",
    "lighting": "Hard editorial contrast with flattened black shadows, pale highlights, and selective gloss on metallic, glass, or satin collage materials.",
    "mood_and_cultural_reference": "Underground music flyer, speculative archive, fashion-editorial collage, spiritual sci-fi symbolism, and turn-of-the-century graphic design.",
    "reusable_design_rules": "Keep one iconic surreal object at the center, let oversized repeated words behave as architecture, concentrate color in the collage, and organize all small information inside disciplined utility bands.",
    "things_to_avoid": "Do not simplify into a clean Swiss poster, expand into a cinematic scene, use soft pastel minimalism, reproduce the source portrait-and-doves narrative, or add real brand identity."
  },
  "composition": {
    "primary_structure": "One monumental central cutout assemblage over three or four stacked rows of repeated megatype.",
    "layout_grid": "Use a narrow top utility bar, a dense central poster field, paired side data blocks, a ruled lower dossier panel, and a final ornamented footer line.",
    "subject_scale": "The hero occupies about 60 to 72 percent of the frame height and overlaps both solid and outline type.",
    "negative_space": "Keep negative space low; breathing room comes from black counters inside outline letters and thin gaps between framed information bands.",
    "depth": "Use shallow paper-collage layering, partial occlusion, cutout overlaps, circular orbital fragments, and a few crisp contact shadows.",
    "aspect_adaptation": "For 4:5, stack the headline vertically and elongate the hero; for 5:4, widen the repeated type rows and spread technical side panels while keeping the hero centered."
  },
  "typography": {
    "headline": "Two to three short uppercase words set in a massive bold grotesk, repeated across the field with alternating solid white and thin white outline variants.",
    "secondary_display": "One compact black-on-yellow or white-on-red warning label may overlap the hero object.",
    "supporting_text": "Tiny all-caps dossier captions, serial numerals, compact paragraphs, and utility labels aligned to thin rules.",
    "alignment": "Mostly centered display type with disciplined left and right technical blocks; allow deliberate reversal or mirroring in one background row.",
    "restrictions": "Use only original short phrases and invented data; never copy source slogans, signatures, organization names, or serial numbers."
  },
  "color_palette": {
    "dominant": "Near-black ink field.",
    "secondary": "Warm off-white for display type, rules, symbols, and dossier panels.",
    "hero_colors": "Rust orange, burnt sienna, and desaturated cyan or oxidized teal concentrated inside the central collage.",
    "accents": "Small signal-yellow labels and restrained crimson fragments.",
    "proportions": "Approximately 55 percent black, 25 percent off-white, 12 percent rust orange, 6 percent cyan, and 2 percent yellow or red accents."
  },
  "image_treatment": {
    "rendering_mode": "Raster photo-collage combining photographic object cutouts with flat editorial typography and technical graphic overlays.",
    "edge_quality": "Crisp hand-cut contours softened by consistent halftone and print grain rather than smooth vector perfection.",
    "lighting": "Hard frontal editorial light with controlled highlights and compressed shadow detail.",
    "finish": "A tactile offset-print and photocopy finish with mild ink spread, paper tooth, and subtle registration drift while preserving clear silhouettes.",
    "legibility": "Keep the primary headline and warning label readable; treat the smallest microcopy and serial data as disciplined visual texture."
  },
  "design_rules": [
    "Build the poster around one central surreal assemblage with a strong, readable monument-like silhouette.",
    "Place oversized repeated headline words behind the subject and alternate solid, outline, and reversed treatments.",
    "Keep black and off-white dominant while concentrating rust orange and cyan inside the central collage.",
    "Use yellow or red only for one or two small warning-style accents.",
    "Frame small text and data inside strict ruled bands so dense information still feels intentional.",
    "Apply one coherent halftone and photocopy texture across photography, type, and graphic elements.",
    "Use orbital circles, stars, arrows, and technical separators sparingly to connect the collage to the dossier grid.",
    "Change every literal subject, phrase, symbol combination, identifier, and narrative from the source."
  ],
  "do": [
    "Use a centered cutout object sculpture that breaks across multiple type rows.",
    "Repeat a short original headline in bold filled and monoline outline variants.",
    "Balance expressive surreal imagery with disciplined technical framing.",
    "Keep the poster tactile, grainy, high-contrast, and densely layered.",
    "Adapt the same hierarchy to both 4:5 and 5:4 without turning the horizontal version into a different genre."
  ],
  "avoid": [
    "Do not recreate the source portrait, white birds, red flower placement, moon arrangement, slogans, signature, or footer data.",
    "Do not include real logos, brand names, watermarks, usernames, QR codes, or copied identity marks.",
    "Do not render a clean vector poster, glossy 3D scene, soft minimalist layout, or photoreal cinematic environment.",
    "Do not scatter many unrelated objects until the central silhouette becomes unreadable.",
    "Do not let artificial noise destroy the primary headline, hero contours, or main warning label."
  ],
  "prompt_template": "Create a {ASPECT_RATIO} image in the \"surreal-megatype-dossier-collage\" visual style.\n\nSubject: {SUBJECT}\nAction: {SUBJECT_ACTION}\nProp/Product: {PRODUCT_OR_PROP}\nLocation: {LOCATION}\nBackground: {BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS}\nMain text: {MAIN_TEXT}\nSecondary text: {SECONDARY_TEXT}\nAccent symbol: {ACCENT_SYMBOL}\nWardrobe/styling: {WARDROBE_STYLE}\nStyle fidelity anchors: {STYLE_FIDELITY_ANCHORS}\nSource content to avoid: {SOURCE_CONTENT_TO_AVOID}\n\nApply these style rules:\n- Composition: place one monumental surreal photographic cutout assemblage at the center, occupying roughly two-thirds of the frame, over three or four dense rows of repeated white megatype. Build a narrow top utility strip, small side data blocks, a ruled lower dossier panel, and a final symmetric footer ornament. Keep negative space low and the perspective front-facing with shallow paper-collage overlap.\n- Typography: repeat the specified short main text in massive uppercase grotesk letters, alternating solid off-white, thin monoline outline, and one reversed or mirrored background treatment. Keep the primary words recognizable even when partly hidden. Add only original compact all-caps microcopy, serial-like numerals, and one small warning label; do not copy any source wording or identity.\n- Color: use a near-black field and warm off-white type as the dominant system. Concentrate rust orange, burnt sienna, and desaturated cyan inside the hero collage, with one small signal-yellow label and restrained crimson details.\n- Texture and lighting: combine hard frontal editorial lighting, crisp hand-cut object edges, compressed shadows, coarse halftone dots, paper tooth, photocopy grain, slight ink spread, and subtle color registration drift. Keep the hero silhouette and main type readable.\n- Graphic elements: use thin white rules, framed dossier panels, orbital rings, four-point stars, arrows, compact technical stamps, barcode-like abstract line fields, and symmetrical ornamental separators. These must be invented graphics, never real codes or copied marks.\n\nAvoid: real logos, watermarks, usernames, QR codes, identifiable people, copied faces, source slogans, white doves, the source side-profile head, exact flower and moon arrangement, clean vector rendering, glossy 3D, cinematic scenery, pastel minimalism, excessive glitch, illegible primary text, malformed anatomy, or unrelated clutter.\n\nImportant content rule: match the dense black-and-white megatype dossier layout, monumental surreal cutout treatment, restricted accent palette, and tactile print finish first; then change the subject, props, scene, symbols, text, and story completely.",
  "negative_prompt": "source portrait, side-profile human head, white doves, pigeons, copied red-flower placement, copied moon arrangement, DON’T CRY, SILENT KILLERS, copied slogan, copied signature, real logo, brand name, watermark, username, platform mark, QR code, real barcode, identifiable person, celebrity likeness, album-cover copy, campaign-art copy, clean vector poster, glossy 3D render, cinematic scene, pastel minimalism, excessive glitch, destructive noise, unreadable primary headline, low resolution, blur, muddy silhouette, random object clutter",
  "examples": [
    {
      "case_name": "midnight-radio-relic",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "a monumental surreal shortwave radio relic fused with an abstract satellite dish",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "broadcasting concentric frequency rings while its tuning parts unfold like a mechanical shrine",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "a chrome radio chassis, blank tuning glass, brass knobs, coiled cables, burgundy satin folds, small moths, and translucent signal spheres",
        "LOCATION": "a black archival poster void presented as an imaginary nocturnal transmission dossier",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "invented frequency charts, thin rule frames, abstract barcode-like lines, serial labels, orbital rings, and small directional arrows",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "TUNE IN",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "NIGHT FREQUENCY / SIGNAL 47.12 / LISTEN BEYOND",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "four-point signal star",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "no people; metallic components are wrapped in rust-orange and cyan satin fragments"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "deep-sea-archive",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "a colossal antique diving helmet transformed into a deep-sea archive monument",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "opening its circular viewport as currents, bubbles, and translucent organisms spiral outward",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "oxidized brass helmet plates, pressure gauges, cyan glass lenses, burnt-orange kelp, jellyfish, coral fragments, and pearl-like bubbles",
        "LOCATION": "a black speculative oceanography dossier with no literal underwater scenery",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "invented depth scales, specimen labels, orbital bubbles, thin frame rules, mirrored technical captions, and a compact warning panel",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "DIVE DEEP",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "PRESSURE LOG / BELOW THE SURFACE / DEPTH 08.31",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "compass-cross star",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "no people; the helmet is draped with textured rust fabric and cool translucent membranes"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "greenhouse-engine",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "a monumental glass greenhouse engine assembled as a botanical machine",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "unfolding brass ribs while rare leaves and mechanical seed pods emerge from its transparent chambers",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "curved greenhouse glass, brass irrigation valves, rust-colored textile, cyan condensation, crimson seed pods, dark leaves, and tiny metallic dragonflies",
        "LOCATION": "a black archival botany poster imagined as a future growth dossier",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "invented germination charts, ruled specimen boxes, measurement ticks, orbital seed diagrams, serial data, and one yellow status label",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "GROW WILD",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "GERMINATION FILE / OPEN SYSTEM / CYCLE 13",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "eight-point seed star",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "no people; glass and brass are partially wrapped in burnt-orange technical fabric"
      }
    },
    {
      "case_name": "nocturne-transit",
      "values": {
        "SUBJECT": "a monumental vintage train nose fused with a celestial transit instrument",
        "SUBJECT_ACTION": "moving forward as its windows become orbital lenses and its rails curl into diagrammatic paths",
        "PRODUCT_OR_PROP": "an unbranded steel train shell, round lamps, cyan glass windows, rust-orange upholstery folds, blank metal tickets, small paper kites, and dark planetary discs",
        "LOCATION": "a black imaginary night-transit dossier with no realistic station scene",
        "BACKGROUND_ELEMENTS": "invented route grids, departure codes, white rule frames, abstract line fields, orbital marks, arrows, and a compact status placard",
        "MAIN_TEXT": "MOVE THROUGH",
        "SECONDARY_TEXT": "NIGHT LINE / ROUTE UNKNOWN / DEPART 23.40",
        "ACCENT_SYMBOL": "double-arrow star",
        "WARDROBE_STYLE": "no people; industrial metal is softened by layered burnt-orange and oxidized-cyan textile"
      }
    }
  ]
}