# Flowchart × Proofreading Marks — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=flowchart+proofreading-marks
# Flowchart carries the structure. Proofreading Marks 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 Flowchart (Layout, 1921–) and its accent from Proofreading Marks (Technique, 16th century–). Structural cues: A grammar of shapes; The decision diamond; Arrows of flow; Start and end terminals. Accent cues, used sparingly: Lines pairing text and margin; Deletion and restoration exchanges; Insertion and transposition signs; The hierarchy of red. Composition: Main path down one column, branches right and always rejoining. Type and lettering: A question inside every diamond, a verb first sentence in rectangles. Let one material quality come from the second style: Proofs printed at full size with margins wide enough to write in. Mood: Technology, Trust, Play, Intimacy. 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Roughly 1905 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Flowchart: Mixing diamonds and rectangles without respecting their meanings erases the line between decision and process, and readers guess.
# - Proofreading Marks: Corrections written as prose instead of marks leave the extent of each change open to reading, and every pass introduces fresh errors.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/flowchart/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/proofreading-marks/design.md