# Emoji × Kawaii — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=emoji+kawaii
# Emoji carries the structure. Kawaii 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 Emoji (Style, 1999–) and its accent from Kawaii (Aesthetic, 1970s–). Structural cues: The 12x12-dot originals; Emotion as sign; Per-platform dialects; Between letter and picture. Accent cues, used sparingly: Faces of circles and empty space; Big eyes, elided mouths; Pastel softness; Looseness and defenselessness. Composition: At most one per sentence, placed where punctuation falls rather than replacing words. Type and lettering: Sized and weighted to sit with the surrounding text it is mixed into. Let one material quality come from the second style: Desaturated pastel and white, matte rather than glossy. Mood: Intimacy, Play, Technology, Nostalgia. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. 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
# - Emoji: Trusting information to a sign whose meaning shifts by platform means the reader sees a different picture and misreads it.
# - Kawaii: Assuming that bigger eyes and paler color make something cute loses the tension in the contour and leaves only a slack face.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/emoji/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/kawaii/design.md