Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow ADV / NVL Text Layout: In ADV mode pin the window to a band at the bottom and leave the art above it. In NVL mode give the window the whole screen and stack lines from the top. Decide the lines per page before anything else
- Type
- Set in ADV / NVL Text Layout's manner (Fix the line spacing and put the speaker's name at the head of the line. Give each speaker a distinct name colour so the voice is legible at a glance), and let Manga Lettering's lettering (Line weight and edge shape carry the hardness of the sound) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in ADV / NVL Text Layout's material (Lay a translucent window over background and character art, dark or light enough that text survives whatever is behind it. Pick speaker colours by the value that separates them from the background); bring in exactly one thing from Manga Lettering (Written with the same pen as the art, reversed white against solid black).
- Colour
- Build on #C8FFC8, #FFFFFF, #1A1A1A and admit one accent from #eee8de, #9c3d34, #131415.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- ADV / NVL Text Layout Stacking lines in NVL mode without inserting page breaks pushes text below the bottom of the screen where it cannot be read.
- Manga Lettering Setting sound effects in a ready-made typeface keeps the hardness and speed out of the line, leaving a note floating above the drawing.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from ADV / NVL Text Layout (layout, 1990s–) and their accent from Manga Lettering (style, 1930s–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing ADV / NVL Text Layout exists for: choosing between the two layouts when building a reading app that advances dialogue one line at a time, or presenting a long monologue or letter as an accumulating page rather than a sequence of screens. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from ADV / NVL Text Layout - In ADV mode a wide window stays at the bottom of the screen and holds one line at a time - In NVL mode the text fills the screen and the lines already read stack upward - An NVL page break clears the whole stack at once and the next page starts empty - Choices behave differently in each mode: NVL puts them directly after the current text instead of on a full screen menu Composition: In ADV mode pin the window to a band at the bottom and leave the art above it. In NVL mode give the window the whole screen and stack lines from the top. Decide the lines per page before anything else. Type and lettering: Fix the line spacing and put the speaker's name at the head of the line. Give each speaker a distinct name colour so the voice is legible at a glance. ## Accent comes from Manga Lettering, used sparingly - Sound drawn as shape - Weight matched to texture - Placement crossing panels - Even silence written (shiin) Let one material quality come from it: Written with the same pen as the art, reversed white against solid black. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #FFFFFF, carry the structure in #C8FFC8 and #1A1A1A, and let a single accent come from #9c3d34. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: intimacy, calm, play, exhilaration. ## What goes wrong - ADV / NVL Text Layout: Stacking lines in NVL mode without inserting page breaks pushes text below the bottom of the screen where it cannot be read. - Manga Lettering: Setting sound effects in a ready-made typeface keeps the hardness and speed out of the line, leaving a note floating above the drawing. ## 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.
Related entries
- ADV / NVL Text Layout 1990s– / Layout / Games and Play
The visual novel has two named text layouts, of which ADV mode presents dialogue and narration one line at a time, generally in a window at the bottom of the screen. NVL mode presents several lines at once in a window that takes up the entire screen and starts a fresh page at marked breaks. The Ren'Py documentation defines the pair in exactly those terms.
- Manga Lettering 1930s– / Style / Lettering
In Japanese manga, sound effects and even the feel of silence are drawn as pictures, from a booming don to a hushed shiin. Hand-lettering turns the texture of a sound into line weight and shape, dissolving the border between image and word inside the panel.
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