# Bauhaus × The New Typography — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=bauhaus+new-typography
# Bauhaus carries the structure. The New Typography 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 Bauhaus (Style, 1919–1933) and its accent from The New Typography (Layout, 1920s–1930s). Structural cues: Elementary shapes; Primary colors; Functional beauty; Visible structure. Accent cues, used sparingly: Asymmetry; Sans-serif type; Photography; Functional white space. Composition: Treat shapes and letters as the same building blocks. Type and lettering: Geometric sans-serif. Let one material quality come from the second style: Black and red, halftone photography, plain rules, no ornament. Mood: Trust, Play, Technology, Exhilaration. Color: build on #eee7d4, #df2c22, #153f8c with a single accent drawn from #eee9dc, #d22f26, #1e1d1a. 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
# - Bauhaus: Scattered shapes read as childish. Give every element a job.
# - The New Typography: When asymmetry becomes the aim in itself the reading order is never settled, and the page ends up harder to read than the ornamented one it replaced.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/bauhaus/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/new-typography/design.md