Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Minitel (Télétel) Screen: Rule the 40 by 24 grid first, then allocate heading, body and input field onto it. Never overflow the rows, because each screen has to be complete in itself.
- Type
- Set in Minitel (Télétel) Screen's manner (Everything sits on one fixed width cell. Since type size cannot change, emphasis has to come from reversed video and underlines alone.), and let Terminal UI's lettering (One monospaced face where emphasis comes from weight and inversion alone) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Minitel (Télétel) Screen's material (Build images from blocks that divide one cell into six, three down and two across. Hold to eight colours, and allow any single cell at most two of them, one for the character and one for its ground.); bring in exactly one thing from Terminal UI (One phosphor hue on black with scanlines and bloom added sparingly).
- Colour
- Build on #000000, #00FFFF, #FFFF00 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Minitel (Télétel) Screen Smooth curves and midtones half erase the coarseness of the divided cell, and once that goes the grid holding the whole thing up stops being visible.
- Terminal UI Heavy scanlines and flicker cost legibility and the atmosphere ends up beating the speed that made the tool worth using.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Minitel (Télétel) Screen (Style, 1980–2012) and its accent from Terminal UI (Style, 1970s–). Structural cues: A grid of 40 columns by 24 rows where letters and pictures occupy cells of exactly the same size; Images assembled from blocks that split a single character cell three down and two across; Only eight saturated colours in play, which are black, white, blue, green, red, yellow, magenta and cyan; Emphasis available in two forms only, reversed video and an underline. Accent cues, used sparingly: Single phosphor color on black; The monospace grid; A blinking cursor; Scanlines and glow. Composition: Rule the 40 by 24 grid first, then allocate heading, body and input field onto it. Never overflow the rows, because each screen has to be complete in itself.. Type and lettering: Everything sits on one fixed width cell. Since type size cannot change, emphasis has to come from reversed video and underlines alone.. Let one material quality come from the second style: One phosphor hue on black with scanlines and bloom added sparingly. Mood: Nostalgia, Technology, Intimacy, Rebellion, Calm. Color: build on #000000, #00FFFF, #FFFF00 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.
Related entries
- Minitel (Télétel) Screen 1980–2012 / Style / Digital Retro
The screen craft laid down by France's Télétel standard. Pictures are tiled out of mosaic characters on a grid of 40 columns by 24 rows, each cell divided three down and two across, and the whole palette runs to eight colours, which are black, white, blue, green, red, yellow, magenta and cyan. A service was known by the short code that followed 3615, and the terminals stayed in use until 2012.
- Terminal UI 1970s– / Style / UI Expression
The terminal look: monospaced phosphor characters on black. The VT100's green afterglow became the primal image of the computer's face, repeated from hacker cinema to modern CLI tools.
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