# The Face (ザ・フェイス) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.11 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/the-face
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of The Face, a style from Publishing and Editing, 1980s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: music and fashion magazines where the type is meant to carry as much of the page as the photographs, or publishing where the headline letters are redrawn issue by issue and the change is shown to the reader. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Extra bold headline letters drawn on geometry
- Heavy rules and black bars dividing the page
- Section marks that change shape issue by issue
- Large type laid over the photograph

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 the page with heavy rules and black bars, and lay large type over the photograph
- Type and lettering: Draw the headline weight from geometry as extra bold, and hold the text in a small sans
- Material and surface: Keep a set of section marks that change shape each issue, working in black areas and reversed white
- Colour: #f2eee5 carries the ground, #b9a58f is the colour the style is remembered by, #161513 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

## What goes wrong

When redrawing the letterforms every issue becomes the aim in itself, the marks stop working as signposts for the reader and every issue looks equally loud.

## 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/the-face/design.md