# Kufic (クーフィー体) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.182 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/kufic
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Kufic, a style from Calligraphic Traditions, 8th century onward.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: cutting an inscription into a wall or a vessel as a band, or using the angular letterforms as figure, for titling and marks meant to be read from a distance. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Horizontals drawn long
- Short angular uprights
- Letters turning at right angles
- Lines massed into an even band

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: Align the top and the foot of the line, space the uprights evenly, and run the letters as a band
- Type and lettering: Fix the ratio of upright to horizontal first, and turn every corner at a right angle
- Material and surface: Cut into stone, brick and tile, and on parchment hold the stroke to an even weight with the reed pen
- Colour: #ddd0b2 carries the ground, #3b5398 is the colour the style is remembered by, #3f3028 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: luxury, calm, trust

## What goes wrong

Copying only the right angles while breaking the joins between letters leaves an ornamental band that no longer reads as a word.

## 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/kufic/design.md