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Hanga Cut

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

Hanga Cut hero
Hanga Cut proof 1
Hanga Cut proof 2
Hanga Cut proof 3
1 hero · 3 proofs
Prompt template
Bold flat-graphic screenprint poster illustration of {subject}, in the modernist Japanese graphic-design technique: the subject is built entirely from flat, hard-edged geometric shapes — cut circles, half-circles, rectangles and triangles assembled like screen-printed paper — with NO gradients, NO soft shading, NO 3D modelling and NO photographic depth; only minimal fine ink linework where an edge truly needs it. A strictly limited highlighter palette: most shapes in electric young-leaf green ({green}) and wind-cyan ({cyan}), with exactly ONE hot vermilion ({pop}) shape held as the single warm focal pop; deep near-black ink ({ink}) for tiny details only. Pure bright white background with generous open negative space; risograph / screenprint flat-colour feel with hard registration edges. Full-frame, the subject confidently filling the composition. NO text, NO letters, NO logos.
Slot recipes
subject — the literal subject to render in the flat-cut technique — a face, a skyline, a bird, a still-life object; the technique never changes
green — #00A94A — electric young-leaf green, the dominant cool field colour
cyan — #0097DC — wind-cyan, the second cool field colour
pop — #FF4D2E — hot vermilion, used for exactly ONE focal shape per image
ink — #0B1A10 — deep green-ink near-black, fine details only
flat-graphicscreenprintrisographpostergeometric
Credits · in the lineage of
  • Ikko TanakadesignerPioneer of modern Japanese graphic design; his flat geometric forms on a limited palette and modular registration grid (e.g. the 1981 Nihon Buyo poster) are the direct lineage of this cut-shape technique.
  • BauhausMovementGeometric reductionism and the discipline of building images from primary flat shapes.
  • Risograph / screenprintTraditionFlat spot-colour layers with hard registration edges and limited inks give the technique its printed-poster surface.

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
  • · Compose every subject from flat, hard-edged geometric cut shapes, like screen-printed paper
  • · Hold the palette to two cool highlighters (green, cyan) plus exactly one warm vermilion focal pop
  • · Keep the ground pure bright white with generous open negative space
  • · Use minimal fine ink linework only where an edge genuinely needs it (an eye, a contour)
Don't
  • · No gradients, soft shading, glow, drop shadows, bevels or 3D modelling
  • · No photographic or painterly treatment, no woodblock ukiyo-e linework
  • · No more than one vermilion shape; never let warm colour dominate
  • · No cream or beige ground, no busy clutter, no cute mascots
try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.