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Glacis Ink

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

contour ink overprint

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Glacis Ink: a cold technical line-drawing overprint with crisp 1px carbon-black contour ink, sparse confident outlines and no color fill, drawn over a near-pure snow-white field, {palette}, faint icy coordinate rings and 1px calibration tick marks passing behind and across the subject at low opacity like a measuring instrument, thin cool blue-gray hatched shading in only a few zones, tiny diagnostic corner-bracket ticks at the extreme edges, glacial mechanical precision, full-frame edge to edge

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} drawn large and centered-asymmetric in carbon-black contour ink over a vast snow-white field, faint icy coordinate rings and calibration ticks sweeping behind it, corner-bracket ticks at the extreme edges, full-bleed, no text

feature — a single {subject} rendered as a clean 1px contour line-drawing with one or two thin blue-gray hatch zones, modest coordinate-ring overlay, plenty of quiet white field around it

avatar — tight head-and-shoulders crop of {subject} in pure black contour ink on white, a faint cyan tick-cross centered behind, minimal hatching, square framing

empty-state — a small, lonely {subject} in light contour ink adrift in a near-empty snow field, one faint coordinate arc and a couple of calibration ticks, deliberately spare and calm

illustration — {subject} as a precise contour study with measured cyan coordinate rings, calibration tick scales and corner brackets, like a telemetry plate, blue-gray hatch shading, no fill

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Credits · in the lineage of

Technical contour draftingTradition1px overprint linework

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

· Keep linework to a single confident 1px carbon-black contour; let absence of fill carry the form.
· Float faint icy-cyan coordinate rings and 1px calibration ticks behind and across the subject at low opacity.
· Add only sparse cool blue-gray diagonal hatching in a few shadow zones, never solid fills.
· Set the subject on a near-pure snow-white field and treat the empty space as active atmosphere.
· Place tiny diagnostic corner-bracket ticks at the extreme frame edges like calibration hardware.
· Let the subject fill the frame as a style-representative exemplar.

Don't

· Do not add color fill, painterly brushwork, or photographic rendering.
· Do not use neon glow, cyberpunk chroma, vaporwave gradients, or rainbow color.
· Do not add caption text, paragraphs, logos, or watermarks.
· Do not soften with drop shadows, rounded cards, or heavy blended shading.
· Do not crowd the frame with ornament; preserve quiet field and mechanical restraint.

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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.