# Vaporwave × VHS Aesthetic — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=vaporwave+vhs-aesthetic
# Vaporwave carries the structure. VHS Aesthetic 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 Vaporwave (Style, 2010s) and its accent from VHS Aesthetic (Aesthetic, 1980s–2000s / 2010s revival). Structural cues: Pink and purple; Classical statues; Early CG; Tropics and Japanese text. Accent cues, used sparingly: Scanlines and noise; Bleeding chroma; REC and timestamp overlays; Tracking distortion. Composition: Floating objects, horizon lines, collage. Type and lettering: Serifs, pixel faces, fragments of Japanese. Let one material quality come from the second style: Bleed the chroma more than the luma, tracking errors coming and going. Mood: Nostalgia, Futurism, Rebellion, Intimacy. Color: build on #532d8f, #ee72c8, #66dbe0 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
# - Vaporwave: Don't reduce Japanese to meaningless decoration. Bring criticism or personal memory.
# - VHS Aesthetic: Applying noise and scanlines evenly across everything, with no wobble and no uneven decay, so it still reads as modern video wearing a filter.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/vaporwave/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/vhs-aesthetic/design.md