# Saul Bass Title Design (ソール・バスのタイトルデザイン) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.194 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/saul-bass-title
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Saul Bass Title Design, a style from Broadcast Design, 1955 to 1990s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: handing over a work's theme and temperature before the story starts, or redesigning the obligation of credits as a piece in its own right. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Flat cut paper silhouettes
- A palette held to a few colors
- Uneven hand drawn capitals
- Simple moves along straight lines

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: Hand the names to the moving shapes, fix one reading position
- Type and lettering: One face only, entrances and exits designed to the musical beat
- Material and surface: Art built apart from the feature, few colors, one repeated motif
- Colour: #f3f3ee carries the ground, #eca506 is the colour the style is remembered by, #1c1b16 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: exhilaration, luxury, play

## What goes wrong

Decoration unrelated to the feature is not the form, since only the structure that summarizes the theme survives, and when moving the names becomes the point there is no time to read them.

## 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/saul-bass-title/design.md