# Care Symbols × i-mode Emoji — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=care-symbols+imode-emoji
# Care Symbols 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 Care Symbols (style, 1958–) and their accent from i-mode Emoji (style, 1998-1999).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Care Symbols exists for: designing handling instructions that must cross every language, or printing instructions for several processes into a few millimeters. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Care Symbols

- Tub, triangle, square and circle
- The prohibition X and temperature dots
- Compression into millimeters
- International standardization

Composition: Wash, bleach, dry and iron in that order, evenly spaced in one row. Type and lettering: Keep the four base outlines, line weight equal across all of them.

## 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 #f4f3f5, carry the structure in #77889e and #433832, 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

- Care Symbols and i-mode Emoji both belong to Symbol Systems, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

## What goes wrong

- Care Symbols: Thinning the lines to fit a smaller tag lets dots and crosses clog after washing, and a prohibition gets read as permission.
- 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/care-symbols/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/imode-emoji/design.md