# Cyberpunk × Diegetic UI — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=cyberpunk+diegetic-ui
# Cyberpunk carries the structure. Diegetic UI 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 Cyberpunk (Style, 1980s–) and its accent from Diegetic UI (Technique, 2009–). Structural cues: Rainy nights; Multilingual neon; Dense cabling; Dark cities. Accent cues, used sparingly: Health or ammunition shown on the protagonist's own equipment instead of in a corner of the screen; A map the character holds up and reads while still walking, rather than a paused overlay; Panels of information projected into the air that tilt with the camera because they occupy the space; Directions given by the color of a signpost standing in the world itself. Composition: Stack information densely on dark planes. Type and lettering: Angular sans, monospace, multiple scripts. Let one material quality come from the second style: Use only materials the fiction can account for, such as a lit tube or a projected plane. The style collapses when the material stops being explainable, so settle the world first.. Mood: Futurism, Rebellion, Exhilaration, Play, Technology. Color: build on #091b21, #05b7b2, #f04445 with a single accent drawn from #6EC6E0, #E8A33D, #111417. 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
# - Cyberpunk: Don't use Asian cities as a symbol of otherness. Make the fictional social order concrete.
# - Diegetic UI: Building an object into the world and then printing controller button names on it mixes fiction with rules, and that is exactly where the thesis's own focus group reported the illusion breaking.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cyberpunk/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/diegetic-ui/design.md