# 1-Bit Icon Design × Pixel Art — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=one-bit-icon+pixel-art
# 1-Bit Icon Design carries the structure. Pixel Art 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 1-Bit Icon Design (Technique, 1982–1990s) and its accent from Pixel Art (Technique, 1970s–). Structural cues: Two values only, black and white, with gray standing in as a checkerboard of alternating dots; A one pixel outline closing each shape, and an interior that is either solid or dotted, never shaded; Ordinary objects, scissors, a bin, a sheet of paper, standing in as the names of commands; Visible traces of one dot placed per grid square, so diagonals break into steps. Accent cues, used sparingly: Visible pixels; Limited palettes; Tiles; Sprites. Composition: Rule the grid first and draw with one square standing for one pixel. Close the outline before deciding the interior, and leave one square of clearance inside the frame.. Type and lettering: Keep letters out of the picture and put the label on a separate line outside it. Any type alongside sits on the same bitmap grid, with no italics and no ornament.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Limited palette, dark outlines, neighboring hues to soften the steps. Mood: Intimacy, Play, Technology, Nostalgia. Color: build on #000000, #FFFFFF, #808080 with a single accent drawn from #26243f, #ef6a55, #f3d36b. 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
# - Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - 1-Bit Icon Design: Adding gray or midtones to widen the range costs you the hard outline that only two values can produce, and the shape stops being legible at the size it is actually used.
# - Pixel Art: Downscaling a photograph skips the decision behind every single pixel, and the contours turn muddy the moment the image is enlarged.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/one-bit-icon/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/pixel-art/design.md