# Canonical Vanilla (Canonical Vanilla) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.571 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/canonical-vanilla
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Canonical Vanilla, a style from Platform Screen Languages, 2013–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: technical product sites whose long copy must be scanned rapidly by heading, or sharing one typography and sectional rhythm across Canonical product sites and admin apps. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Thin large headings paired with bold smaller headings in Ubuntu type
- Asymmetric 25/75 and 50/50 splits
- Fine rules above sections and generous vertical space
- White surfaces, dark text and orange or aubergine focus

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: Divide an eight- or twelve-column grid in 25-percent units, putting short headings left and longer content right; rule the section tops
- Type and lettering: Use Ubuntu Variable with light display headings and bold small headings and UI labels
- Material and surface: Start from white space and dark text, using orange or aubergine only for links, focus and brand moments
- Colour: #FFFFFF carries the ground, #E95420 is the colour the style is remembered by, #2C001E 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, trust, calm

## What goes wrong

Ubuntu type alone does not make Vanilla. Keep the quarter-based splits and the reading rhythm between sections consistent too.

## 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/canonical-vanilla/design.md