# Braille × i-mode Emoji — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=braille+imode-emoji
# Braille carries the structure and i-mode Emoji 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 Braille (style, 1824–) and their accent from i-mode Emoji (style, 1998-1999).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Braille exists for: adding touch readable text beside signage and wayfinding panels, or giving print or packaging an identifier that does not rely on sight. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Braille

- The 2x3 dot cell
- Dimensions fit to the fingertip
- Left-to-right tactile reading
- The materiality of embossing

Composition: Set below or beside the print, with room for a finger to travel. Type and lettering: Dot diameter and spacing follow the standard, never adjusted for looks.

## Accent comes from i-mode Emoji, used sparingly

- Figures fitted to a twelve by twelve grid
- Shapes made of mass rather than of line
- Set inline at the size of a letter
- Faces, weather and symbols at one coarseness

Let one material quality come from it: Faces, weather and things held at one coarseness, dots reduced to the limit where they still read apart.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #fefddc, carry the structure in #8f9ead and #28211b, and let a single accent come from #ffdd67. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: trust, intimacy, technique, play.

## Where they fight

- Braille and i-mode Emoji both belong to Symbol Systems, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Braille and i-mode Emoji stand roughly 174 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

## What goes wrong

- Braille: Shrinking or tightening the dots to tidy the look drops them below the resolution of a fingertip, and nobody can read them.
- i-mode Emoji: Chasing fine detail inside the grid clogs the dots, and at the size of the text the figure no longer says what it is.

## 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/braille/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/imode-emoji/design.md