# Retrofuturism (レトロフューチャリズム) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.565 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/retrofuturism
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Retrofuturism, a aesthetic from Digital Culture, 1970s–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: world-building from past visions of tomorrow, or showing both technological optimism and the predictions that failed. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Streamlined vehicles and monumental cities
- Analog gauges, chrome and vacuum tubes
- Space-age advertising type and diagrams
- Faded print beside luminous future imagery

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: Share the field between low horizons, oversized machines and explanatory diagrams
- Type and lettering: Combine assertive period advertising with technical annotations
- Material and surface: Keep chrome, amber displays, faded paper and painted metal visibly of their period
- Colour: #E7D8B5 carries the ground, #E65A3A is the colour the style is remembered by, #234A66 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: futurity, nostalgia, play

## What goes wrong

Neon plus old machines is not enough. Decide when, by whom and for whom this future was imagined.

## 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/retrofuturism/design.md