# i-mode Emoji (iモード絵文字) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.314 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/imode-emoji
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of i-mode Emoji, a style from Symbol Systems, 1998-1999.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: designing signs that must read at the size of a letter as one set on a coarse grid, or telling state by a figure instead of a word where only a few dots can be lit. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Figures fitted to a twelve by twelve grid
- Shapes made of mass rather than of line
- Set inline at the size of a letter
- Faces, weather and symbols at one coarseness

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: The coarse grid fixed first, every figure told apart inside that one cell
- Type and lettering: Built from masses of dots rather than lines, sized to sit inline at the height of the text
- Material and surface: Faces, weather and things held at one coarseness, dots reduced to the limit where they still read apart
- Colour: #fcfdfc carries the ground, #ffdd67 is the colour the style is remembered by, #4c3526 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: intimacy, play, technique

## What goes wrong

Chasing fine detail inside the grid clogs the dots, and at the size of the text the figure no longer says what it is.

## 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/imode-emoji/design.md