# Minitel (Télétel) Screen × Terminal UI — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=minitel-screen+terminal-ui
# Minitel (Télétel) Screen carries the structure. Terminal UI 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 Minitel (Télétel) Screen (Style, 1980–2012) and its accent from Terminal UI (Style, 1970s–). Structural cues: A grid of 40 columns by 24 rows where letters and pictures occupy cells of exactly the same size; Images assembled from blocks that split a single character cell three down and two across; Only eight saturated colours in play, which are black, white, blue, green, red, yellow, magenta and cyan; Emphasis available in two forms only, reversed video and an underline. Accent cues, used sparingly: Single phosphor color on black; The monospace grid; A blinking cursor; Scanlines and glow. Composition: Rule the 40 by 24 grid first, then allocate heading, body and input field onto it. Never overflow the rows, because each screen has to be complete in itself.. Type and lettering: Everything sits on one fixed width cell. Since type size cannot change, emphasis has to come from reversed video and underlines alone.. Let one material quality come from the second style: One phosphor hue on black with scanlines and bloom added sparingly. Mood: Nostalgia, Technology, Intimacy, Rebellion, Calm. Color: build on #000000, #00FFFF, #FFFF00 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
# - Minitel (Télétel) Screen: Smooth curves and midtones half erase the coarseness of the divided cell, and once that goes the grid holding the whole thing up stops being visible.
# - Terminal UI: Heavy scanlines and flicker cost legibility and the atmosphere ends up beating the speed that made the tool worth using.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/minitel-screen/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/terminal-ui/design.md