Art lane

Squeegee

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

screen print

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Squeegee — a bold screen-printed risograph treatment: heavy uniform black contour outlines, the form posterized into three or four flat ink separations, visible halftone-dot shading in the midtones, a hard offset registration drop-shadow so the form reads as a stacked cut-paper block, {palette} kept mostly monochrome with one flat accent slab punched in behind the subject, slightly mis-registered ink edges and screen-print grain, hard rectangular edges, high-contrast and snappy, the subject huge and bleeding off all four edges of the frame

Slot recipes

hero — The subject rendered huge and bleeding off all four edges, one flat accent slab punched behind it, heavy black contour and offset registration shadow making it read as a cut-paper block against the paper-white ground.

feature — A single object or motif centered, posterized to three or four flat layers with halftone midtones, hard offset shadow, accent slab clipped behind one side only.

avatar — A tight face or head crop, split down the middle between flat accent fill and pure black-and-white halftone, heavy contour outline, no background detail beyond the accent block.

empty-state — One simple lone icon-like object screen-printed with thick outline and offset shadow, small accent slab, lots of paper-white around it but the object itself fully inked and grainy.

illustration — A denser scene built as overlapping cut-paper blocks, each element thick-outlined with its own offset shadow and halftone fill, a couple of accent slabs punched behind key forms, mis-registered edges throughout.

screen-printrisographhalftoneposterizedoffset-shadow

Credits · in the lineage of

Screen printing (serigraphy)Traditionsqueegee-pulled flats
Risograph print cultureTraditionspot-ink registration

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 everything black-and-white first; let the single accent slab read as a loud interruption, never a wash.
· Give every form a heavy uniform black contour and a hard offset registration shadow so it looks screen-printed and stacked.
· Posterize tones into three or four flat separations and carry midtones with visible halftone dots.
· Let the subject dominate and bleed off the frame edges; embrace slight ink mis-registration and screen grain.

Don't

· Don't add soft gradients, glows, blur, or photoreal lighting.
· Don't wrap the artwork in a decorative frame or leave a clean white margin around it.
· Don't let the accent color flood the whole image or use more than one accent hue.
· Don't render rounded, smooth vector shapes with no contour weight or grain.

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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.