# ASCII Art × Experimental Type — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=ascii-art+experimental-type
# ASCII Art carries the structure. Experimental Type 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 ASCII Art (Technique, 1960s–) and its accent from Experimental Type (Style, 1980s–). Structural cues: Monospace characters; Character density; Terminal screens; Single color. Accent cues, used sparingly: Distorted letterforms; Overlaps; Extreme letterspacing; Tension with legibility. Composition: Fix the column width first and hard wrap so the figure holds. Type and lettering: Pick a monospace face and measure its line to character ratio first. Let one material quality come from the second style: Monochrome plus one color; warps and scanlines. Mood: Technology, Nostalgia, Play, Rebellion, Exhilaration. Color: build on #101510, #74d66b, #d9ead4 with a single accent drawn from #f0eee7, #1c1c19, #3b62ff. 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
# - ASCII Art and Experimental Type share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - ASCII Art: Type and leading differ on the reader's side, so art distributed without a fixed column width collapses into noise somewhere else.
# - Experimental Type: Break everything and the way in disappears. Always keep one readable layer.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/ascii-art/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/experimental-type/design.md