{
"style_name": "Field Guide Prints",
"style_slug": "two-ink-orange-collage-fieldguide",
"canvas": "4:5 portrait, oat paper #F0E4CD with heavy fiber grain, dust specks and worn edges",
"color": {
"inks": ["oat paper #F0E4CD", "burnt orange #D9531E", "ink black #171310"],
"hard_rule": "TWO inks on paper — the only full-color element in the frame is the cut-out photograph of the subject and their object",
"print_feel": "ink starve, slight misregistration, halftone dots in the shadows"
},
"typography": {
"kicker": "small bold caps top-left, slash-separated — the series name and its unit (SEASON ONE, STUDIO NOTES)",
"headline": "two or three words in very heavy condensed slab caps, burnt orange, spanning the top edge to edge and cropped by both sides, distressed",
"scribble": "ONE black dry-brush stroke slashed horizontally through the lower half of the headline, obscuring part of a word — energy, not decoration",
"caption_band": "a cream band at the foot with thin rules, holding the kicker again in italic serif caps"
},
"collage": {
"subject": "full-color photograph of one practitioner mid-work, cut out with a thick cream sticker outline plus a thin dark keyline, layered above everything",
"object_cutouts": "1–2 more photographic objects (watering can, terracotta pot, star chart) given the same sticker treatment and floated into the lower left",
"engraved_field": "the flat orange background is filled with cream line-art engravings of the trade's tools, diagrams and produce — vintage catalog line quality, never modern icons",
"ribbon": "one thick continuous loop swooping through the lower third — solid orange, sometimes doubled with a black offset shadow; it passes behind the subject and in front of the background",
"silhouette_strip": "a black halftone silhouette band along the bottom edge showing the working environment — rooftops, bakery, studio, desert ridge",
"badge": "optional black starburst or small logo mark holding one tool icon"
},
"photography": "warm natural light, subject absorbed in the work or looking up from it, relaxed and pleased; hands and tool always visible and sharp",
"design_rules": [
"the headline is always partly hidden — by the scribble, by the subject, or both",
"engravings fill every empty orange area; no bare flat color larger than a fist",
"the ribbon must cross the frame edge to edge, never float unattached",
"the caption band repeats the kicker word for word"
],
"swap_variables": {
"practice": "amateur astronomy / rooftop gardening / cake decorating / wheel-thrown pottery",
"headline": "AFTER DARK / GROW ABOVE / SWEET STRUCTURE / FORM BY HAND",
"kicker": "A FIELD GUIDE TO THE OPEN SKY / CITY GARDEN FIELD NOTES · SEASON ONE / LAYERS · LINES · CELEBRATION / EARTH · WATER · HEAT — STUDIO NOTES",
"engraved_set": "telescopes + moon phases + constellations / watering cans + seedlings + skyline / whisks + checkerboard + scales / vases + kiln + spiral flame",
"cutout_object": "star chart / watering can / cake / terracotta pot"
}
}
