# i-mode Emoji × Kawaii — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=imode-emoji+kawaii
# i-mode Emoji carries the structure and Kawaii 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 i-mode Emoji (style, 1998-1999) and their accent from Kawaii (aesthetic, 1970s–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing i-mode Emoji exists for: designing signs that must read at the size of a letter as one set on a coarse grid, or telling state by a figure instead of a word where only a few dots can be lit. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from i-mode Emoji

- 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

Composition: The coarse grid fixed first, every figure told apart inside that one cell. Type and lettering: Built from masses of dots rather than lines, sized to sit inline at the height of the text.

## Accent comes from Kawaii, used sparingly

- Faces of circles and empty space
- Big eyes, elided mouths
- Pastel softness
- Looseness and defenselessness

Let one material quality come from it: Desaturated pastel and white, matte rather than glossy.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #fcfdfc, carry the structure in #ffdd67 and #4c3526, and let a single accent come from #e24aa1. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: intimacy, play, technique, nostalgia.

## What goes wrong

- 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.
- Kawaii: Assuming that bigger eyes and paler color make something cute loses the tension in the contour and leaves only a slack face.

## 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/imode-emoji/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/kawaii/design.md