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Phosphor Press

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

photocopied phosphor plate

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Phosphor Press: a high-contrast photocopied underground-zine plate, bone-white paper and dense sumi-black ink with manga halftone screentone dot-shading for the midtones and shadows, {palette}, overprinted with a fixed fine horizontal CRT scanline veil and re-lit by a single luminous green phosphor terminal beam (#00ff66) tracing the contours and glowing in the deep blacks, thin green reticle corner-brackets and tiny green coordinate annotation labels crosshairing the subject as if machine-scanned, xerox grain and photocopy registration noise, monochrome plus one green accent only, subject fills the frame edge to edge

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} as a full-bleed photocopied phosphor plate, dominant sumi-black ground, the green phosphor beam raking across the main contour, scanline veil edge to edge, reticle brackets pulled to the frame corners with coordinate labels — composed dark and cinematic to sit behind an overlay

feature — {subject} centered and cropped tight as a manga diagnostic panel, balanced bone-white and sumi-black with screentone midtones, a single green crosshair and small coordinate tag pinned on the focal point

avatar — head-and-shoulders of {subject} as a scanned zine portrait plate, heavy halftone screentone on the face, green reticle corner-ticks framing the head, one green coordinate label, tight square crop filling the frame

empty-state — a lone {subject} small in a sparse sumi-black field with faint scanlines and one drifting green reticle searching for it, restrained green coordinate readout, quiet and diagnostic rather than busy

illustration — {subject} as a detailed photocopied specimen plate, intricate halftone screentone rendering, green phosphor beam tracing the linework and veins, multiple small reticle brackets and coordinate labels annotating parts as if catalogued

photocopied-zinehalftone-screentonecrt-scanlinegreen-phosphor-beamreticle-annotation

Credits · in the lineage of

Photocopied zine cultureMovementhigh-contrast xerox plates

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

· Hold to two value families — bone-white paper and dense sumi-black — bridged only by halftone screentone dots.
· Use exactly one chromatic accent, the green phosphor beam #00ff66, to relight contours and glow in the blacks.
· Keep the CRT scanline veil and reticle/coordinate annotations thin and crisp so they read as machine overlays.
· Let xerox grain and photocopy registration noise carry the underground-zine texture.
· Fill the frame with the subject, edge to edge, cropped like a zine plate.

Don't

· Do not add a second accent color, rainbow gradients, or purple/cyan cyberpunk neon.
· Do not render in smooth full color, airbrushed shading, or glossy 3d.
· Do not let scanlines or screentone wash over the focal subject until it loses contrast.
· Do not leave white margins, borders, poster mockups, or empty whitespace.
· Do not stamp HUD reticles without coordinate labels or a clear scanning focus.

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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.