# Japanese Gothic × Mincho — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=japanese-gothic+mincho
# Japanese Gothic carries the structure. Mincho 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 Japanese Gothic (Style, late 19th century–) and its accent from Mincho (Style, 19th century–). Structural cues: Even strokes; No uroko; High visibility; Fit for screen display. Accent cues, used sparingly: Thin horizontals, thick verticals; Uroko serifs; Kaisho-derived skeleton; Steady text-block color. Composition: Cut information per line before enlarging type, protect the margins. Type and lettering: One gothic family as the base, no more than three weights. Let one material quality come from the second style: Off-white uncoated stock, single black ink that keeps uroko crisp. Mood: Trust, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f0ece3, #8c8578, #1c1a17. 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
# - Both belong to Type Classification, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Japanese Gothic: This is not the Latin sans translated, so work through the kana skeleton and the density gap of kanji, and keep heading, text and note apart instead of setting everything in gothic.
# - Mincho: At small screen sizes the uroko and thin horizontals drop out, so a face chosen for refinement simply becomes hard to read.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/japanese-gothic/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/mincho/design.md