# Teletext Art × Test Card — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=teletext-art+test-card
# Teletext Art carries the structure. Test Card 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 Teletext Art (Style, 1974–2012 / revival) and its accent from Test Card (Style, 1934–). Structural cues: Eight-color mosaic; The 40x24 frame; Pseudo-curves from blocks; The look of broadcast infrastructure. Accent cues, used sparingly: Color bars; Concentric circles and grids; A skin-tone reference image; Waveform test patterns. Composition: Everything inside forty columns and twenty four rows, on the grid. Type and lettering: One monospaced face only, hierarchy from double-height headings. Let one material quality come from the second style: Primary bars and a neutral step wedge, no intermediate colors. Mood: Technology, Nostalgia, Play, 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.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Teletext Art: Raising the resolution to smooth the drawing removes the necessity behind the coarseness and leaves a merely retro-looking picture.
# - Test Card: Borrowing only the nostalgia and distorting the circles and grids until the image can no longer measure anything at all.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/teletext-art/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/test-card/design.md