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Toner

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

photocopy print

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Toner — a high-contrast black-and-white photocopy reproduction built from misregistered stacked print sheets: a hard solid-black offset duplicate of the subject shifted a few pixels behind the main layer, which is rendered in coarse halftone dots and heavy toner grain with blown-out highlights and crushed black shadows, the top sheet rotated very slightly so the subject reads as double-printed and misaligned, {palette}, soot-black ink on dirty off-white paper, visible photocopier roller streaks, dust specks and toner smudges, a few small registration crosshair marks and one or two hard ink rules integrated into the surface, subject fills the whole frame edge to edge, confrontational anti-design photocopied-poster look, absolutely no text or letters anywhere

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} filling the entire frame edge to edge as a high-contrast photocopy with a heavy misregistered black offset sheet behind it, coarse halftone and toner grain, registration crosshairs and a hard ink rule near the margins, no text

feature — a single {subject} reproduced close-up as a misaligned double-printed xerox sheet, blown-out highlights and crushed black masses, slight rotation between the offset duplicate and the halftone top layer, no text

avatar — a tight head-and-shoulders crop of {subject} as a coarse halftone photocopy portrait, hard black offset duplicate shifted behind the face, toner grain and streaks, square, fills the frame, no text

empty-state — a sparse single {subject} as a faint under-inked photocopy on dirty off-white paper, light toner coverage and roller streaks, one registration crosshair, deliberately stark and unfinished, no text

illustration — a dense layered composition of {subject} built from several overlapping misregistered photocopy sheets at slightly different rotations, heavy halftone, crushed blacks and blown highlights, registration marks and hard ink rules woven through, no text

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Credits · in the lineage of

Photocopy (xerographic) print cultureTraditiontoner misregistration

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 it strictly monochrome — soot-black ink on a dirty off-white paper field, no color.
· Always include the misregistered offset duplicate sheet and a slight rotation so the double-print misalignment is visible.
· Use coarse halftone dots, toner grain, roller streaks and dust to make it feel handled and photocopied.
· Fill the frame edge to edge with the subject; treat margins as production crop space, not airy whitespace.
· Integrate a few registration crosshair marks and one or two hard ink rules as part of the printed surface.

Don't

· Do not add any text, letters, words, captions or stamped type — keep the surface purely pictorial.
· Do not introduce color, gradients, soft pastel washes, or glossy 3D rendering.
· Do not round the subject into a clean centered float with empty background — it must crowd the frame.
· Do not let it fall into flat mid-grey mush; push contrast to true black and true off-white.
· Do not smooth out the grain into clean digital photography — the photocopy roughness is the point.

try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.