# PLATO Terminal Screen (PLATO端末の画面) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.533 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/plato-screen
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of PLATO Terminal Screen, a style from Platform Screen Languages, 1972–1980s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: laying out a learning or operations screen where one colour carries both diagram and text on a single plane, or making screens or footage that portray the earliest online communities. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Text and line drawing glowing in a single orange on a black panel
- Characters placed by coordinate rather than by line flow, cutting into the middle of a drawing
- Text and graphics sharing one surface, with no frames dividing the regions
- Questions answered by touching the screen 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: Place text at chosen coordinates instead of flowing lines, and separate areas with empty space rather than frames
- Type and lettering: One monospaced face only, with no weight contrast and at most two sizes
- Material and surface: Black ground, one glowing orange and no midtones, with the density of dots and strokes carrying the tone
- Colour: #FF7B1A carries the ground, #8C3B00 is the colour the style is remembered by, #0A0A0A 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, intimacy

## What goes wrong

Adding scanlines and bloom to make it feel like a cathode ray tube erases the one thing that defined this screen, a flat plasma panel that glows without smearing.

## 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/plato-screen/design.md