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Sumitsubo

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

Sumitsubo hero
Sumitsubo proof 1
Sumitsubo proof 2
Sumitsubo proof 3
1 hero · 3 proofs
Prompt template
{subject}, in the style of Sumitsubo: a layered cyanotype-style photographic overprint, a sky-blue ink plate printed over a soft warm-grey photographic halftone, with a second slightly misregistered translucent plate offset a few millimetres so edges shimmer with registration ghosting, and a faint architectural blueprint tick-grid set beneath at about 4 percent opacity, {palette}, real atmospheric depth from overlapping translucent planes catching raking light — semi-transparent, layered front-to-back, never a flat silhouette — with one thin vertical plumb-line dropping through the composition carrying small calibration tick-stops like a measuring instrument, grown-up editorial confident print design, full-bleed edge to edge
Slot recipes
hero — The dominant subject filling the frame as a layered cyanotype overprint — sky-blue ink plate over warm-grey halftone, a second misregistered translucent plate ghosting the edges, faint 4 percent tick-grid beneath; overlapping translucent planes give real atmospheric depth and a thin vertical plumb-line with tick-stops drops through the composition. Full-bleed, no text.
feature — A tighter framing of one part of the subject rendered in the same blue-over-grey cyanotype overprint with edge ghosting and the faint tick-grid; a short plumb-line segment with two or three calibration ticks marks a measured height across it.
avatar — A face or single object head-on as a layered cyanotype overprint, atmospheric tonal modelling from translucent layered light (never a flat cut-out), faint tick-grid behind, a thin plumb-line with tick-stops along one edge; centred, fills the frame.
empty-state — A near-empty sky-blue field over warm-grey paper with the faint 4 percent tick-grid showing through and a single thin plumb-line carrying a few unmarked tick-stops, suggesting a gauge awaiting its first reading. Atmospheric, soft, not blank-white.
illustration — A wider scene of several elements of the subject staged at different depths, each a translucent cyanotype plane receding into atmospheric haze, registration ghosting on the nearest plane, faint tick-grid beneath, and plumb-lines dropping past them with tick-stops calibrating their heights.
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Credits · in the lineage of
  • Cyanotype photographic processTraditionThe sky-blue monochrome plate and contact-print tonality come from Anna Atkins-era cyanotype photogram printing.
  • Risograph and offset overprint printingTraditionThe deliberate plate misregistration, translucent ink overlap and halftone ghosting are borrowed from riso and offset spot-colour overprinting.
  • Bauhaus typographic and wayfinding traditionMovementThe calibrated grid, plumb-line gauge and confident grown-up editorial register draw on Bauhaus-lineage publishing and wayfinding systems.
  • Architectural blueprint draftingTraditionThe faint tick-grid substrate and measuring-instrument framing echo blueprint reproduction and drafting conventions.

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.

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Do
  • · Build the image as a real photographic overprint: a sky-blue ink plate over a soft warm-grey halftone, with a second translucent plate offset a few millimetres so edges carry deliberate registration ghosting.
  • · Keep genuine atmospheric depth — overlapping translucent planes catching raking light, tonal modelling and haze — so subjects read as layered photographs, never flat silhouettes.
  • · Run one thin vertical plumb-line through the composition with small calibration tick-stops, treating the subject as something being measured by a graduated gauge.
  • · Let a faint architectural blueprint tick-grid sit beneath everything at roughly 4 percent opacity as the substrate, and fill the frame edge to edge.
Don't
  • · Do not flatten the subject into a single solid silhouette or a flat loud primary-colour pop graphic.
  • · Do not slip into childish, kawaii, mascot, or clip-art illustration — the register is grown-up and editorial.
  • · Do not let it go muddy, dull, or washed-out, and do not add pastel background washes, neon oversaturation, or rainbow palettes.
  • · Do not add 3d rendering, drop shadows, decorative ornament, text, borders, or empty white margins.
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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.