{
"style_name": "Small Emergencies",
"style_slug": "manga-ink-three-panel-shift-poster",
"canvas": "9:16 tall poster, aged cream paper, heavy print grain, distressed edges and corners",
"color": {
"ink": "near-black line work #1A1714",
"paper": "cream #EFE3CE",
"fills": ["hot pink #E85D8A", "sky cyan #6FC3D6", "signal yellow #E8B33A", "copper orange #D96B2E"],
"rule": "flat, slightly misregistered print fills; pink must take ONE impossible role per poster — the water spray, the dawn sky, the ghosted second self"
},
"illustration": {
"technique": "dense seinen-manga inking — crosshatch shading, speed lines, spray dots, screentone patches — over flat poster color",
"panels": "three stacked panels separated by TILTED diagonal gutters with thin paper-colored gaps",
"panel_grammar": {
"instrument": "extreme close-up of a hand on the job's instrument — tuning dial, lantern striker, pressure gauge, kitchen timer — markings readable",
"action": "the same worker full-body at the peak of a small crisis, strong diagonal pose, environment drawn in full detail",
"face": "tight portrait of the same character — effort, relief or joy; optionally a ghosted second emotion behind them in one flat color"
},
"order_rule": "the three beats may shuffle order, but all three must appear, and it is the same character in every panel",
"diegetic_text": "all in-scene words belong to the world — tape labels, shop signs, flour bags, buoy numbers, warning plates"
},
"typography": {
"masthead": "two words, TWO typefaces: word one in massive distressed slab caps in cream; word two in ornate circus tuscan, set on or filled with a color block",
"info_bar": "one yellow bar in bold black caps at the foot: place or season, slash, log or batch number",
"scatter": "checkerboard patches, lightning bolts, starbursts, tiny waveforms — three or four per poster, never more"
},
"design_rules": [
"the crisis must be genuinely minor — a relay to run, a lamp to light, a pipe to fix, dough to catch; the inking treats it as life or death",
"the face panel pays off the action panel — same shift, seconds apart",
"panels tilt; the masthead never does",
"no gradients in the fills; depth comes from line density, not tone"
],
"swap_variables": {
"job": "dawn radio courier / pier storm-watch keeper / irrigation mechanic / night baker",
"crisis": "carry the signal across rooftops / light the storm lantern in rain / burst pipe in dry season / dough over-rising at 3am",
"instrument": "tuning dial / lantern + striker / gauge + pipe wrench / timer + copper bowl",
"masthead": "STATIC RUN / TIDELIGHT / BLOOM FIX / MOON RISE",
"info_bar": "FREQUENCY 88 · DAWN RELAY / PIER NINE · STORM WATCH / DRY SEASON · REPAIR LOG 04 / BATCH 03 · OPEN TILL DAWN",
"diegetic_labels": "88 DAWN RELAY tape / buoy No.9 / WATER PRESSURE dial / ALL NIGHT BAKERY sign + POWER FLICKER plate"
}
}
