Art lane

Rasterwerk

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

halftone print

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of high-contrast monochrome lithographic halftone screen-printing: the subject rendered entirely in pure black ink on a bright pure-white field with no color whatsoever, every tone built from a precise mechanical dot-screen halftone raster of varying dot sizes — dots swelling to solid black in the deep shadows and dissolving to open white on the highlights, crisp clean printed grain, {palette}, a few thin sharp straight black hairline registration rules and small crop-mark ticks crossing the image aligned to an invisible Swiss editorial grid, objective and exact like an enlarged newspaper photograph, asymmetric off-center placement, {composition}, the subject filling the frame edge to edge and bleeding off all four sides. Absolutely NO text, NO letters, NO words, NO numbers, NO logos, NO color.

Slot recipes

hero — The subject filling the full bleed edge to edge in a wide crop, rendered as a pure black halftone dot-screen on white with no color, deep blacks dissolving to open white, a couple of thin black hairline registration rules and crop-mark ticks crossing the frame, asymmetric off-center framing, objective and exact like an enlarged press photo.

feature — The subject large and off-center, built entirely from a fine mechanical halftone dot raster in black ink on white, hairline rules and small crop ticks aligned to a Swiss grid crossing it, crisp printed grain, filling the frame.

avatar — A tight head-and-shoulders or close view of the subject reduced to a black halftone dot-screen on a clean white ground, dots swelling into solid black in the shadows, one or two hairline rules crossing the frame, the subject filling the frame edge to edge.

empty-state — The subject rendered quietly as a sparse, mostly-white halftone with only the lightest dot-screen and a single thin black hairline rule and crop tick, calm and open, still filling the frame with no blank outer margin.

illustration — A close objective study of the subject built entirely from a precise halftone dot raster in pure black on white, full tonal range from solid black to open white, fine straight hairline rules and crop ticks aligned to the editorial grid, the subject filling the frame edge to edge.

halftonedot-screenmonochromenewsprintregistration-marks

Credits · in the lineage of

Lithographic halftone screen printingTraditionmonochrome dot-screen 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

· Apply the halftone dot-screen treatment to any subject, filling the frame edge to edge with the subject bleeding off all four sides.
· Build every tone from a precise mechanical dot raster — dots swelling to solid black in the shadows and opening to white in the highlights — in pure black ink on a bright white field.
· Cross the image with a few thin sharp straight black hairline registration rules and small crop-mark ticks aligned to a Swiss editorial grid.
· Keep it strictly monochrome and high-contrast — objective and exact, like an enlarged newspaper photograph.

Don't

· Render the apparatus — a print sitting on a sheet, a wall, a frame, an easel, or a page.
· Add any text, letters, words, or numbers.
· Introduce any color, sepia tint, gradient without dots, soft airbrush shading, drop shadows, or glossy 3d render.
· Leave a distressed inky border, grunge vignette, or blank outer margin; the subject and its hairline grid fill the whole frame.

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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.