# Cameo Glass (カメオ・グラス) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.521 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/cameo-glass
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Cameo Glass, a technique from Vessel and Craft Techniques, Roman era–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: building an image out of two stacked surfaces, where the edge is carried by a step and its shadow instead of a drawn line, or working in blind emboss or foil, where nothing is added in colour and the whole image has to come from difference in thickness. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- A pale image standing up in relief over a darker ground
- Where the cut runs deep the ground colour shows through and the image sinks; only the thickest passages go fully opaque
- The ground is one even colour and all the tonal range sits in the image
- Edges are steps rather than drawn lines, so raking light throws a shadow off the image itself

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: A wide field of one dark colour with a single pale image on it. Keep the ground plain and put nothing between the two
- Type and lettering: Cut the lettering out of the same layer as the image. Let the stroke width be a carving width, and avoid hairline faces
- Material and surface: Layers of contrasting glass with the outer one cut away. The thickness you leave standing gives the range from translucent to fully opaque
- Colour: #EDE7DA carries the ground, #7C89A8 is the colour the style is remembered by, #1C2B5A holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: technique, luxury, calm

## What goes wrong

Copying only the light and dark contrast as two flat fills loses the translucent middle that depth of cut produces, and the result reads as cut paper.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cameo-glass/design.md