| 1 | # Visual style: zine |
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| 3 | Risograph zine / DIY poster — misregistered color layers, halftone dots, a tightly limited palette, handmade print grit. Indie-publishing texture over polish. For culture decks, design talks, indie brands, anything wanting a printed, hand-assembled feel. |
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| 7 | ## 1. Shape & decoration |
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| 9 | - Shape language: cut-and-paste blocks, offset color shapes, rough frames; outlines in a near-black ink tone. Corner radius low or zero — print-flat, not soft-digital. |
| 10 | - Composition geometry: rotated pasted-on blocks (slight skew) building the collage stage; a torn-strip band as the section divider; an oversized halftone shape bleeding behind the content; a photocopy frame or taped corner anchoring the focal block; column scraps at mixed widths. |
| 11 | - Decoration: the riso print artifacts — subtle visible color-layer misregistration, halftone-dot `<pattern>` texture, overlapping color blocks that imply another color where they cross. Texture is the decoration. |
| 12 | - Whitespace: poster-like — bold focal blocks with raw margins; deliberate roughness over clean alignment. |
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| 14 | ## 2. Typography character |
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| 16 | - Punk-DIY contrast: a heavy poster display face for headlines, a plain readable sans for body, monospace for annotation (typewriter / photocopier feel). |
| 17 | - Big headline tension against quiet body; slight intentional looseness reads as hand-set rather than mechanical. |
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| 19 | > Families are chosen at confirmation `g`; this style asks for a display-poster × plain-sans × monospace-annotation *character*. |
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| 21 | ## 3. Using the deck's colors |
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| 23 | - A tightly limited spot palette (riso logic) sits on a warm paper field; a dominant ink pairing does most of the work and any additional spot color appears selectively. |
| 24 | - Color is laid as flat spot fills, not gradients; overlap and offset of the same small ink set create depth and extra-color illusions. Scarcity and overlap, not variety. |
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| 26 | > HEX values come from confirmation `e`; this style governs the flat-spot, misregistered-overlay discipline — it names no colors. |
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| 28 | ## 4. Texture / elevation |
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| 30 | - Flat print, no digital elevation. Depth from layer offset and halftone grain, not shadows. Warm-paper grain via faint texture / low-opacity halftone is on-brand; avoid drop shadows and slick gradients. |
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| 32 | ## 5. Paired image-rendering |
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| 34 | `screen-print` — duotone / spot-ink imagery that shares the riso print aesthetic. |
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| 36 | ## 6. Illustration propensity |
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| 38 | **core** — riso / halftone spot imagery is part of the zine's print grit; with no user steer, default to recommending a coherent spot-illustration family. Default *lean* only — heaviness and placement stay Strategist judgment, an explicit user request wins either way, and `image_usage: none` writes no illustration rows. |
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