back to art styles
Art lane

Exhibit Hand

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

Exhibit Hand hero
Exhibit Hand proof 1
Exhibit Hand proof 2
Exhibit Hand proof 3
1 hero · 3 proofs
Prompt template
{subject}, in the style of a declassified evidence photostat, {palette}, harsh high-contrast black-and-white photocopy with heavy flat toner, blown highlights and crushed solid-black shadows, coarse photocopy halftone grain and toner speckle, faint diagonal scanner streaks, solid opaque flat-black redaction bars cropping across the subject as censorship masses, hard 1px black hairline registration brackets at the corners, tiny rotated monospace hash fragments and a small docket evidence stamp, one single tiny flat matte icy-blue verification tick, cold austere forensic archival treatment, subject fills the entire frame edge to edge
Slot recipes
hero — {subject} as a full-bleed declassified evidence photostat, harsh high-contrast black-and-white photocopy, halftone grain, one or two solid black redaction bars cropping the subject, registration brackets at the corners, a single icy-blue verification tick, 16:9, fills the frame edge to edge
feature — {subject} rendered as an evidence exhibit photostat, heavy toner and halftone, one redaction bar, small docket hash stamp, 4:3, subject centered and filling the frame
avatar — {subject} portrait as a forensic mugshot photostat, high-contrast black-and-white, a single black redaction bar across the eyes, tiny blue verification tick, 1:1, tightly cropped to fill the frame
empty-state — a near-blank bone-white photostat sheet with faint halftone grain, a single small black redaction bar and a 'sealed exhibit' docket stamp in one corner, cold negative space, no subject, austere and quiet
illustration — {subject} rendered as a declassified case-file photostat, coarse halftone, scanner streaks, two redaction bars, rotated monospace hash fragments along one edge, a flat icy-blue tick, full-frame archival treatment
photostatredactionhigh-contrasthalftoneforensic
Credits · in the lineage of
  • Declassified photostat documentsTraditionevidence-file reproduction

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

Do
  • · Crush the tones: blown highlights and solid-black shadows with visible halftone dots and toner speckle.
  • · Place solid opaque flat-black redaction bars so they crop across the real subject as structural masses.
  • · Anchor the frame with thin 1px black registration brackets, docket hash stamps, and uppercase evidence labels.
  • · Use the icy blue only once, as a small flat matte verification tick or focus mark — sparse enough to count.
  • · Let the subject bleed to all four edges; treat any subject (face, city, object, specimen) the same way.
Don't
  • · Do not add glow, halo, bloom, or neon to the blue tick or anywhere else.
  • · Do not use green matrix code, cyberpunk alleys, hacker dashboards, or random walls of code.
  • · Do not soften with gradients, blur, glass, pastel washes, or rounded friendly cards.
  • · Do not let redaction bars become decorative stripes — they must crop actual content.
  • · Do not add mascots, anime faces, or ornamental pseudo-text; keep all marks forensic and austere.
try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.