# Playing Card Design × Tarot Imagery — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=playing-card+tarot
# Playing Card Design carries the structure. Tarot Imagery 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 Playing Card Design (Style, 15th century–) and its accent from Tarot Imagery (Style, 15th century–). Structural cues: Double-ended court cards; Suit signs; Corner indices; Repeating back patterns. Accent cues, used sparingly: Major Arcana allegories; Standardized figures and attributes; Frame, number and title; Signs open to rereading. Composition: Everything built double-ended so a half turn changes nothing. Type and lettering: Corner indices large and plain, detail reduced inside the court figure. Let one material quality come from the second style: Flat color from a short palette with a firm outline kept visible. Mood: Play, Trust, Nostalgia, Exhilaration, Calm. 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
# - Both belong to Games and Play, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Playing Card Design: Favoring an interesting picture and shrinking the corner index makes the card unreadable the moment a hand is held in a fan.
# - Tarot Imagery: Changing composition and palette card by card destroys the system, and the deck stops reading as one body when it is laid out.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/playing-card/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/tarot/design.md