{
"style_name": "Word Corridors",
"style_slug": "perspective-word-monochrome-corridor",
"canvas": "9:16 tall poster, one-point-perspective interior, monochrome photographic grade with fine grain",
"color": {
"field": "black-and-white architecture, full tonal range, slight cool or warm cast allowed",
"accent": "one red #B5211A — used ONLY for the word, the wall microcopy accents and one glyph",
"rule": "nothing else in the frame carries color; no second accent anywhere"
},
"word_system": {
"structure": "ONE verb of upkeep, its letters distributed through the architecture in true perspective — largest letter on the floor nearest the viewer, receding letters along the floor toward the vanishing point, final letters wrapping onto the far wall or ceiling vault",
"reading_rule": "reading order equals walking order, viewer's feet first",
"legibility_rule": "the full word must be spellable at thumbnail size — cap the perspective distortion before letters break",
"surface_logic": "letters behave as paint on the real surfaces: they crease at floor joints, follow vault curvature, dim with the lighting"
},
"photography": {
"figure": "one sharp person walking away from camera down the exact center, carrying the trade's object — a rolled document, a weather chart, a specimen board, a rolled backdrop",
"ghosts": "every other person is motion-blurred to a ghost — the long exposure is the time the word talks about",
"spaces": "grand interiors owned by the trade: marble archive nave, brutalist colonnade opening to a storm sea, Victorian glasshouse, theatre backstage bays",
"light": "available light only — pendant lamps, storm sky, glass roof, work lamps at the vanishing point"
},
"typography": {
"wall_microcopy": "small technical caps written ON wall surfaces in perspective — conservation specs, a pressure reading, a field index, a stage note; never flat on the image plane",
"glyph": "one small red mark on a wall: crossed box / pressure bar / fern / dash"
},
"design_rules": [
"no flat graphic elements — everything printed lives inside the space",
"one word, one walker, one color",
"the word is a verb of upkeep: renew, outlast, tend, rebuild",
"the carried object names the trade without a caption"
],
"swap_variables": {
"trade": "archive conservator / storm logger / field botanist / stagehand",
"word": "RENEW / OUTLAST / TEND / REBUILD",
"corridor": "marble archive hall / storm colonnade / glasshouse / backstage bays",
"carried_object": "rolled document / weather chart / specimen board / rolled backdrop",
"wall_microcopy": "TEMP 18–20°C · RH 45–50% · LUX < 50 / WEATHER LOG · 1013.2 hPa / FIELD INDEX · DEEPER LIGHT / STAGE NOTE 11 · MAKE ROOM"
}
}
