# ASCII Art × Swiss Punk Typography — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=ascii-art+swiss-punk
# ASCII Art carries the structure and Swiss Punk Typography 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 ASCII Art (technique, 1960s–) and their accent from Swiss Punk Typography (style, 1970s–1980s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing ASCII Art exists for: placing diagrams or titles inside terminals and logs without images, or signatures and distributed files that must work in text only environments. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from ASCII Art

- Monospace characters
- Character density
- Terminal screens
- Single color

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.

## Accent comes from Swiss Punk Typography, used sparingly

- The grid dismantled
- Exploding letterspacing
- Stepped compositions
- Layered-film textures

Let one material quality come from it: Layered exposures building halftone and reversal through the film.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #d9ead4, carry the structure in #74d66b and #101510, and let a single accent come from #fb4c32. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: technique, nostalgia, play, rebellion, exhilaration.

## What goes wrong

- ASCII Art: Type and leading differ on the reader's side, so art distributed without a fixed column width collapses into noise somewhere else.
- Swiss Punk Typography: Breaking a grid you never built leaves the offsets nothing to measure against, so the rebellion within discipline never happens and only mess remains.

## 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/ascii-art/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/swiss-punk/design.md