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Marginalia

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

graphite field-note plates

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Marginalia — an archival field-note plate: the subject drawn in thin graphite hairline ink lines on a warm ivory paper ground with faint fiber texture, built from delicate calm contour linework and restrained cross-hatch shading, framed inside a square manga-style panel with hairline 1px rules and small corner registration ticks, surrounded by sparse handwritten marginal annotations and tiny diagnostic labels with thin arrow leader lines, faint coordinate tick marks and registration crosses set in the margins, {palette}, exactly one tiny pale-cyan glint as the only colour, quiet clinical museum-grade observational study filling the frame edge to edge

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} as a wide archival field-note plate, graphite hairline study on warm ivory paper inside hairline manga panel rules with corner ticks, dense handwritten marginalia and arrow leaders annotating it, coordinate gutters running the edges, one pale-cyan glint marking a single point, full-bleed no whitespace

feature — a single focused graphite plate of {subject} on warm ivory paper, hairline panel rule and corner ticks, two or three handwritten diagnostic labels with arrow leaders, one tiny pale-cyan state mark

avatar — {subject} as a calm head-and-shoulders graphite study on warm ivory paper, hairline square panel frame and corner ticks, one or two marginal annotation labels, a single pale-cyan glint near one note

empty-state — a sparse, quiet graphite vignette of {subject} on warm ivory paper with generous museum blankness around a small study, one faint marginal note and a lone registration cross, the pale-cyan glint absent or a single dim dot

illustration — {subject} broken into a 3-4 panel archival plate sequence, each graphite study framed by hairline manga rules and corner ticks, handwritten marginal annotations and arrow leaders linking the panels, coordinate marks in the gutters, one pale-cyan glint somewhere in the sequence

graphitefield-notesarchival-platehairline-rulemarginalia

Credits · in the lineage of

Naturalist field-note platesTraditiongraphite marginalia studies

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

· Draw every subject as an archival field-note plate in thin graphite hairline ink on warm ivory paper.
· Frame the study with hairline 1px square panel rules and small corner registration ticks, never rounded cards.
· Surround the subject with sparse handwritten marginal annotations and tiny diagnostic labels joined by thin arrow leader lines.
· Run faint coordinate ticks and registration crosses through the margins so negative space feels authored and observed.
· Reserve exactly one tiny pale-cyan glint as the only colour, marking a single point of state.

Don't

· Don't leave empty white margins or render it as a sparse landing comp — the plate texture and marks fill the frame.
· Don't add a second accent colour or spread the pale cyan into a glow or broad fill.
· Don't use gradients, airbrush shading, glossy or 3D rendering, or heavy outlines.
· Don't round the panels into cards or turn it into a chart, KPI grid, or dashboard widget.
· Don't make the handwriting large, cute, or ornamental — it stays marginal and observational.

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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.