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Mill Proof

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

single-ink bitmap print

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Mill Proof — a single-ink bitmap reduction printed on warm premium paper: the entire subject is rendered in one quiet ink color built from a sparse 4-pixel square bitmap grid, with soft ordered dither dot-matrix shading carrying all the tone, crisp aliased pixel edges, and no second color anywhere; {palette}; tiny precise registration crosshairs and stepped corner-tick marks sit minimally near the margins as a verification system, with faint hairline carton rules and subtle paper-fiber speckle; the look reads like a luxury packaging proof or letterpress registration print, calm and refined rather than retro arcade; the subject fills the frame edge to edge, dominant and legible, with only sparse marks in the margins and no large empty whitespace

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} large and dominant, filling the frame in a single-ink bitmap reduction with rich dither shading, a few registration crosshairs and stepped corner ticks scattered in the margins, warm paper ground, full-bleed

feature — {subject} as one clean single-ink bitmap object with crisp aliased edges and dither modeling, a couple of small 4px corner ticks nearby, generous calm paper around a compact dominant form

avatar — {subject} cropped close and centered, single-ink bitmap with dither shading, one small registration crosshair near a corner, square, legible at tiny sizes

empty-state — {subject} reduced to a small quiet single-ink bitmap mark on a calm paper field, one faint registration crosshair, sparse and deliberately printed, gently restrained

illustration — {subject} rendered as a detailed single-ink bitmap plate with layered dither tones and crisp pixel edges, hairline carton rules and stepped corner ticks framing the margins, like a premium packaging proof sheet

single-inkbitmap-reductiondither-toneregistration-marksletterpress-proof

Credits · in the lineage of

Single-ink bitmap printingTraditionone-colour dithered 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

· Render the whole subject in one ink color plus warm paper; let a single hue carry the entire image.
· Build all tone from an ordered 4px dither dot-matrix and keep pixel edges crisp and aliased.
· Scatter tiny registration crosshairs and stepped corner ticks sparsely in the margins as a quiet verification system.
· Make the subject fill the frame, dominant and legible, with only the marks living in the calm paper margins.

Don't

· Do not introduce a second accent color, neon, or CRT glow — it must stay single-ink on paper.
· Do not shade with smooth gradients, soft photographic light, or 3d render glossiness.
· Do not fill the field with dense decorative dithering, sprites, or game characters.
· Do not strand the subject in a large empty whitespace or show the press, scanner, or apparatus.

try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.