# ADV / NVL Text Layout × Manga Lettering — composed image prompt
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# ADV / NVL Text Layout carries the structure and Manga Lettering appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from ADV / NVL Text Layout (layout, 1990s–) and their accent from Manga Lettering (style, 1930s–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing ADV / NVL Text Layout exists for: choosing between the two layouts when building a reading app that advances dialogue one line at a time, or presenting a long monologue or letter as an accumulating page rather than a sequence of screens. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from ADV / NVL Text Layout

- In ADV mode a wide window stays at the bottom of the screen and holds one line at a time
- In NVL mode the text fills the screen and the lines already read stack upward
- An NVL page break clears the whole stack at once and the next page starts empty
- Choices behave differently in each mode: NVL puts them directly after the current text instead of on a full screen menu

Composition: In ADV mode pin the window to a band at the bottom and leave the art above it. In NVL mode give the window the whole screen and stack lines from the top. Decide the lines per page before anything else. Type and lettering: Fix the line spacing and put the speaker's name at the head of the line. Give each speaker a distinct name colour so the voice is legible at a glance.

## Accent comes from Manga Lettering, used sparingly

- Sound drawn as shape
- Weight matched to texture
- Placement crossing panels
- Even silence written (shiin)

Let one material quality come from it: Written with the same pen as the art, reversed white against solid black.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #FFFFFF, carry the structure in #C8FFC8 and #1A1A1A, and let a single accent come from #9c3d34. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: intimacy, calm, play, exhilaration.

## What goes wrong

- ADV / NVL Text Layout: Stacking lines in NVL mode without inserting page breaks pushes text below the bottom of the screen where it cannot be read.
- Manga Lettering: Setting sound effects in a ready-made typeface keeps the hardness and speed out of the line, leaving a note floating above the drawing.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/adv-nvl-layout/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/manga-lettering/design.md