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Aplat

An engine-agnostic style recipe: a wide hero, proof shots across subjects, and a portable prompt.

Aplat hero
Aplat proof 1
Aplat proof 2
Aplat proof 3
1 hero · 3 proofs
Prompt template
{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.
Slot recipes
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.
gouacherisographaplatflat-colour-planespaper-grain
Credits · in the lineage of
  • Flat gouache poster illustrationTraditionaplat colour fields
  • Risograph print cultureTraditionspot-ink register

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences — credit is given to the artists and traditions it draws on, not a claim of authorship.

produced by unrecorded · sourced by unrecorded · images by unrecorded

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.
try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.