# Riot Grrrl Zine × Risograph — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=riot-grrrl-zine+risograph
# Riot Grrrl Zine carries the structure and Risograph 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 Riot Grrrl Zine (style, 1990s) and their accent from Risograph (technique, 1980s– / contemporary revival).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Riot Grrrl Zine exists for: writers inside a punk scene setting down what happened to them in the first person and handing it out themselves, or claims no commercial magazine will carry, put into manifestos and calls to action and passed out at shows. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Riot Grrrl Zine

- Handwriting mixed with typewriting
- Shadows along the pasted edges
- Crushed blacks and coarse grain
- Pages copied while still crooked

Composition: Treat the spread as one sheet and favor filling it over leaving margin. Type and lettering: Write the declarations in large capitals by hand and paste the rest in as typed pages.

## Accent comes from Risograph, used sparingly

- Misregistration
- Spot-color inks
- Halftone dots
- Paper show-through

Let one material quality come from it: Two or three spot colors, coarse halftones, uncoated paper.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #ece8dd, carry the structure in #c9403b and #171615, and let a single accent come from #ff4d70. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: rebellion, intimacy, play.

## What goes wrong

- Riot Grrrl Zine: Copying the coarse photocopy look alone gets nowhere without the writing itself, in which the maker gives a name and speaks in the first person.
- Risograph: Don't fake it with a noise filter. Design how the colors overlap first.

## 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/riot-grrrl-zine/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/risograph/design.md