# Halftone (ハーフトーン（網点）) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.584 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/halftone
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Halftone, a technique from Print Expression, 1880s–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: printing photographs in newspapers, magazines and packaging with limited inks, or using enlarged dots to make reproduction and print itself the subject. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Large and small dots on one fixed pitch
- Light and shade made by dot area
- Rosettes from differently angled color screens
- An image that changes between normal and magnified viewing

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: Place normal-scale image and enlarged screen together to exploit changes in viewing distance
- Type and lettering: Choose bold type or simple contours that survive conversion into dots
- Material and surface: Set line frequency, dot shape, screen angle and ink color, then translate tone into dot area
- Colour: #F0E9D8 carries the ground, #D94036 is the colour the style is remembered by, #171513 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, nostalgia, rebellion

## What goes wrong

Polka dots are not halftone. Dot size must carry continuous tone in relation to printing resolution.

## 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/halftone/design.md