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Kasumi

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

Kasumi hero
Kasumi proof 1
Kasumi proof 2
1 hero · 2 proofs
Prompt template
{subject}, in the style of a luminous layered almanac plate: the subject photographed as a soft duotone base with real haze, glowing light and atmospheric depth, gently out of focus toward the edges, {palette}, overlaid with semi-transparent fine engineering linework at low opacity — graduated measuring arcs, radial tick marks and flowing contour field-lines tracing the forms — a faint paper grain across everything, and one slightly offset translucent colour plate misregistered over the strongest forms for a printed-archive feel, {composition}, bright airy and calm, dense-but-quiet, reading as depth and air, the subject filling the frame edge to edge. Absolutely NO text, NO letters, NO words, NO numbers, NO logos, NO instrument panels or apparatus.
Slot recipes
hero — A wide full-bleed subject as a luminous almanac plate, photographed soft duotone base with deep haze and air, semi-transparent graduated arcs and flowing contour field-lines riding low-opacity across the strongest forms, faint paper grain and one offset translucent plate, filling the frame edge to edge, bright and atmospheric.
feature — The subject large and centred as a layered almanac plate, soft duotone base with atmospheric depth, low-opacity engineering arcs, radial ticks and contour lines over the forms, faint grain and a single offset plate, filling the frame.
avatar — A tight three-quarter study of the subject as a luminous almanac plate, soft duotone base with haze, fine low-opacity radial ticks and contour lines across the features, faint grain and one offset translucent plate, filling the frame.
empty-state — The subject rendered quietly as an almanac plate, faint soft duotone base, very light engineering linework and a single restrained offset plate, airy and calm, still filling the frame.
illustration — A close study of the subject as a layered almanac plate, soft duotone photographic base with atmospheric depth, semi-transparent graduated arcs, radial ticks and contour field-lines at low opacity, faint paper grain and one offset translucent colour plate, full-frame, no drawn border.
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Credits · in the lineage of
  • Émile Cheysson / French statistical atlasesTradition19th-century French statistical and meteorological atlas plates whose graduated arcs, wind-rose dials and contour field-lines set the precise civic-almanac register this style borrows.
  • Étienne-Jules MareyArtistChronophotography and the graphic method that overlaid measured linework on moving subjects to chart air and motion — the analytic overlay logic here.
  • Isotype (Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz)MovementModernist pictorial-statistics tradition of calm, legible measured information; the dense-but-quiet infographic register.
  • Risograph / spot-colour overprintingTraditionLayered spot-colour passes with deliberate registration offset and paper grain — the printed-archive plate feel and the single misregistered translucent layer.
  • Pictorialist atmospheric photographyMovementSoft-focus, haze-laden photographic base that gives the plate depth and air rather than a flat ground.

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 opus-4.8 · sourced by opus-4.8 · images by gpt-image-2

Do
  • · Apply the technique to any subject — a face, a city, a teapot — filling the frame edge to edge.
  • · Start from a soft duotone photographic base with real haze, glowing light and atmospheric depth; keep it airy and luminous.
  • · Overlay semi-transparent engineering linework at low opacity: graduated measuring arcs, radial tick marks, and flowing contour field-lines that trace the forms and movement.
  • · Add a faint paper grain across everything and one slightly offset translucent colour plate misregistered over the strongest forms.
  • · Keep it bright, calm and dense-but-quiet — the engineering-archive register, but warm and full of air.
Don't
  • · Render a flat loud-colour silhouette, a flat icon, or a hard vector fill.
  • · Render the apparatus or medium itself (no instrument panel, ruler, printer, press, or paper sheet).
  • · Add any text, letters, numbers, or logos.
  • · Go muddy, grey, pastel-washed, neon, glossy 3D, or fully photographic with no linework.
  • · Leave blank margins or empty negative space; the subject fills the frame.
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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.