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Aplat

Print: Risograph registration, Flat-color painting

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The prompt

{subject}, rendered as a flat opaque gouache poster print in a risograph register, {palette}, hard-stop areas of uniform colour with no gradients, fine paper grain over every plane, glossy round bead highlights catching the light, {composition}. Absolutely NO text, NO letters, NO words, NO numbers, NO logos.

Materials
Gouache, Paper grain
Techniques
Risograph registration, Flat-color painting

gouache, risograph, aplat, flat colour planes, paper grain

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Hero: A wide full-frame composition of the subject in the gouache-risograph treatment, the subject filling the frame edge to edge with one calm field of flat colour reserved for an overlaid press block.
  • Feature: A centred full-frame rendering of the subject in flat hard-stop colour planes with paper grain and bead highlights.
  • Avatar: A close, full-frame portrait of the subject, bead-highlight refraction on the brightest planes, flat colour fields with paper grain.
  • Empty state: A single quiet subject rendered in flat colour planes, filling the frame in one calm composition with paper grain.
  • Illustration: The subject built from flat candy-clean colour planes with fine paper grain and hard-stop edges, no gradients.

Guidance

Do

  • Apply the technique to any subject, full-frame edge to edge: a face, an object, a landscape, an animal.
  • Build every form from flat hard-stop planes of uniform colour (aplat) with fine paper grain; keep the palette clean and bright.
  • Add glossy round bead highlights on the brightest planes for the signature refraction; keep colour fields flat with no gradients.

Don’t

  • Do not let any subject domain define the style; the {subject} slot carries the subject, the technique stays neutral.
  • Do not use gradients, neon, photorealism, harsh shadows, or a warm cream cast.
  • Do not add any text, letters, numbers, logos, framing devices, or empty negative space.

In the lineage of

  • Flat gouache poster illustration, tradition. aplat colour fields
  • Risograph print culture, tradition. spot-ink register

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

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Remix with this style

Apply Aplat to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.