# Arabic Calligraphy × Calligram — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=arabic-calligraphy+calligram
# Arabic Calligraphy carries the structure. Calligram appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Arabic Calligraphy (Style, 7th century–) and its accent from Calligram (Technique, antiquity–modernism). Structural cues: Architectural letterforms; Canonical scripts; Breathing thick-and-thin; Composition united with ornament. Accent cues, used sparingly: Text drawing a contour; Shifting reading direction; Meaningful blank space; Poem fused with figure. Composition: Work right to left, shape the mass through overlap and empty ground. Type and lettering: Choose one script and follow its proportions for joining and stacking. Let one material quality come from the second style: Letter and paper as two colors; the shape itself is the star. Mood: Luxury, Calm, Trust, Intimacy, Play. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #eee8dc, #2b2925, #87969b. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Arabic Calligraphy: Setting Arabic letter by letter as if it were Latin breaks the joins, and the word stops being readable long before it stops being beautiful.
# - Calligram: Don't fix a silhouette first and stuff words in. Let the text's rhythm generate the form.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/arabic-calligraphy/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/calligram/design.md