Art lane

Misprint

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

screenprint

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Misprint: a hand-pulled screenprint reduced to bold flat color separations with heavy 3-4px solid black keyline outlines around every form, the cyan/magenta/yellow plates deliberately misregistered and offset a few pixels off the black linework, {palette} as flat high-saturation slabs, coarse visible halftone dot texture in the fills and shadows, warm off-white paper ground showing through, hard zero-blur offset drop shadows, posterized two-tone reduced shading, DIY zine attitude, confrontational and graphic

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} cropped large and frontal, filling the frame edge to edge, in the style of Misprint: heavy black keylines, misregistered acid-yellow / hot-pink / electric-blue separations, halftone fields, warm paper ground, hard offset shadow, no text

feature — a single {subject} object centered on warm paper ground, Misprint screenprint treatment, bold black outline, one dominant color slab with magenta and cyan misregistration fringes, coarse halftone shading, hard zero-blur offset shadow

avatar — tight head-and-shoulders portrait of {subject}, Misprint screenprint, thick black contour line, CMYK plates offset for misregistration, halftone skin tones over warm paper, square crop, no text

empty-state — one small simple {subject} icon-like form on a wide warm paper field, Misprint screenprint, blunt black outline, single acid color slab with slight plate offset, sparse halftone, plenty of paper, calm and graphic

illustration — a flat poster-style scene of {subject} built from naive bold shapes, Misprint screenprint, all forms in thick black keylines, misregistered yellow/pink/blue separations, halftone gradients, warm paper background, hard offset shadows, zine collage energy

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Credits · in the lineage of

Screen printing (serigraphy)Traditionhand-pulled colour separations

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 outline every form in a heavy solid black keyline and let the color plates sit slightly off-register so the print looks hand-pulled.
· Do reduce shading to flat posterized slabs of acid yellow, hot pink and electric blue plus coarse halftone dots.
· Do keep the warm off-white paper ground visible and cast hard offset shadows with zero blur.
· Do let one color dominate each subject while magenta and cyan fringes register the misalignment at the edges.

Don't

· Don't use smooth gradients, airbrush blends, or soft blurred shadows that hide the printed construction.
· Don't register the plates perfectly or thin out the black linework into delicate strokes.
· Don't add glossy reflections, photoreal detail, or atmospheric depth-of-field.
· Don't mute the palette into pastel washes or muddy tones; the slabs stay loud and high-contrast.

try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.