# Devětsil × The New Typography — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=devetsil+new-typography
# Devětsil 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 Devětsil (Style, 1920–1931) and its accent from The New Typography (Layout, 1920s–1930s). Structural cues: Picture poems; Photographs fused with type; Geometry used lyrically; Constructivist bookbinding. Accent cues, used sparingly: Asymmetry; Sans-serif type; Photography; Functional white space. Composition: The spread banded horizontally, photograph and type staggered across it. Type and lettering: Geometric sans broken like verse lines, numerals and signs read as words. Let one material quality come from the second style: Black and red, halftone photography, plain rules, no ornament. Mood: Play, Rebellion, Calm, Trust, Technology, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Devětsil and The New Typography share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Devětsil: Borrowing only the constructivist signs loses the poem and leaves a book decorated with geometry that means nothing.
# - 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/devetsil/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/new-typography/design.md