# Arabic Calligraphy × Iranian Poster — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=arabic-calligraphy+iranian-poster
# Arabic Calligraphy carries the structure. Iranian Poster 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 Iranian Poster (Style, 1960s–). Structural cues: Architectural letterforms; Canonical scripts; Breathing thick-and-thin; Composition united with ornament. Accent cues, used sparingly: Calligraphic line as form; Poetic metaphor; The compositional force of Persian script; A restrained palette. 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: Two or three flat colors, counting the paper white as one. Mood: Luxury, Calm, Trust, Rebellion. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Roughly 1953 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# 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.
# - Iranian Poster: Piling metaphor on until every clue to the subject is gone leaves a sheet that never tells anyone what the event is.

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