# Solarized (ソラライズド) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.538 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/solarized
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Solarized, a style from UI Expression, 2011–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: giving an editor or terminal one reading feel across both light and dark backgrounds, or separating elements on a screen someone stares at for hours, without raising contrast. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Backgrounds that are neither pure black nor pure white, one leaning teal and one leaning cream
- A small lightness gap between body text and ground, softer than black on white
- Eight accents at close to equal lightness, told apart by hue alone
- The same accent holding the same role after the background is flipped from dark to light

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: Divide regions by shifting the ground one step instead of drawing rules, and leave the ground generous
- Type and lettering: One monospaced face, carrying emphasis in colour rather than in weight or slant
- Material and surface: Hold to the eight monotones and eight accents, anchoring the ends at #002b36 and #fdf6e3 and taking body text from the middle greys
- Colour: #fdf6e3 carries the ground, #268bd2 is the colour the style is remembered by, #002b36 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, calm, trust

## What goes wrong

Borrowing only the backgrounds and inventing your own accents breaks the matched CIELAB lightness, and the scheme loses the very mechanism that lets hue do the separating.

## 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/solarized/design.md