Paper Bloom Covers AI Image Prompt
{"style_name":"Paper Bloom Covers","style_slug":"faceted-profile-petal-cascade-cover","canvas":"4:5 portrait, oat paper field #F0E9DC with fine print grain and slight tonal mottling","color":{"paper":"#F0E9DC","masthead_red":"#E4231B","ink":"near-black #1B1917","cascade_palette":["scarlet #E23B2E","coral #F2705A","pink #EE5C7E","orange #F2913A","cobalt #2B5FC4","navy #1D3070","sky #7FA8DE"],"skin":"warm ochre / tan / amber facets, always warm against the cool cascade","rule":"warm face, cool cascade, one red masthead, everything else black on paper"},"typography":{"kicker":"one line of tiny widely letterspaced black caps above the masthead — a full sentence, the magazine's promise","masthead":"heavy display caps in red spanning full width at the top; the subject's head and hair crop 1–3 letters. Each title gets its own face (rounded slab / condensed slab-serif / geometric sans / stencil-cut) because they are four different magazines","issue_block":"oversized black condensed numeral top-left, headline in 2–3 lines of black slab beneath, then a subhead in letterspaced caps","body":"small typewriter/mono paragraphs, 3–4 lines each, separated by thin red hairlines or red dotted rules","badge":"a black spiked starburst lower right holding 2–3 lines of cream caps — a boast, never a description","script_note":"one handwritten line bottom-left, sometimes underlined, always a small aside in the writer's voice","footer":"a barcode strip plus one small framed glyph (rosette / compass rose / bolt / four-petal)"},"illustration":{"portrait":"strict side profile facing LEFT, built from flat hard-edged polygonal facets — cut-paper logic, no soft shading, no outlines; hair rendered as angular shards or stacked curls","gesture":"one hand raised, holding a small object close to the eye — the subject is reading it, not showing it","cascade":"dozens of overlapping teardrop and petal forms flowing out of the shoulder and down the right side into the bottom edge; layered like paper cutouts, some filled with dot or hairline texture","vignette":"one small monochrome line-engraving of a relevant object sitting in the left column, occasionally with a tied specimen tag","micro_graphics":"a measurement scale, a dial, buoys, a moon, radio waves — one small diagram that names the discipline"},"design_rules":["the profile ALWAYS faces left — a right-facing cover breaks the set instantly","the cascade owns the right half; the type owns the left third; they never overlap","the masthead must be interrupted by the head — never fully clear","everything printed: paper grain, slight ink noise, no digital gloss anywhere"],"swap_variables":{"obsession":"[Obsession]","masthead":"[Masthead]","kicker":"[Kicker Sentence]","held_object":"[Held Object]","badge":"[Badge]","glyph":"[Glyph]"}}
Content: Formula: 4:5 paper cover with oat ground, red masthead, black type; left-third type blocks, right-side petal cascade; strict left-facing faceted cut-paper portrait, warm face vs cool cascade, print grain. Swap variables included.
Pros: Clear modular variables and rules; easy to reuse across themes.
Cons: Many type layers may garble; left/right zones and cascade can crowd.
Reference image: No obvious reference-image dependency
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