| 1 | # Palette: mono-ink |
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| 3 | High-contrast monochrome with sparse semantic accents. The most disciplined palette — used for methodology, manifestos, Before-After essays, mindset-shift narratives, professional visual-notes. Distinguished by **black ink on white**, with the deck's accent reserved for semantic meaning only. |
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| 5 | > This file describes **color behavior**, not HEX values. mono-ink overrides much of the deck's HEX usage — read carefully. |
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| 7 | ## 1. Special: deviates from deck HEX |
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| 9 | mono-ink is the palette **most likely to override `design_spec.colors`**: |
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| 11 | - The deck's `primary` HEX is typically **not used** as ink color (mono-ink ink is always near-black, not the deck's brand color) |
| 12 | - The deck's `secondary` HEX is typically **not used** as background (mono-ink background is always pure white) |
| 13 | - The deck's `accent` HEX **is used** — but only in the semantic accent role, with strict <10% area constraint |
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| 15 | When proposing mono-ink, the assembled prompt should explicitly note: "mono-ink palette intentionally uses near-black on white as the structural language; the deck's primary `#XXX` and secondary `#XXX` are not represented as image colors. The deck's accent `#XXX` is reserved for the semantic emphasis role under 10% of canvas." |
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| 17 | ## 2. Compatible renderings |
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| 19 | | Rendering | Notes | |
| 20 | |---|---| |
| 21 | | ✓✓ ink-notes | Direct alignment — mono-ink is the default ink-notes palette | |
| 22 | | ✓✓ editorial | Magazine restraint + ink discipline | |
| 23 | | ✓ vector-illustration | Acceptable but loses the hand-drawn quality | |
| 24 | | ✓ blueprint | Schematic restraint | |
| 25 | | ✗ sketch-notes / watercolor / fantasy-animation / nature | Wrong temperament — those are warm | |
| 26 | | ✗ tech-neon / digital-dashboard | Mono-ink is intentionally non-digital | |
| 27 | | ✗ corporate-photo | Photography can't be mono-ink | |
| 28 | | ✗ chalkboard | Mono-ink is white-paper-black-ink; chalkboard is opposite | |
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| 32 | ## 3. Fewshot prompt snippets |
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| 34 | **Snippet A — applied to an ink-notes Before/After comparison** |
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| 36 | > [...rendering paragraph...] Color behavior is mono-ink with semantic accents: pure white background `#FFFFFF` (about 55%); all line work, figures, and hand-lettered text in near-black ink `#1A1A1A` (about 38%). Left "Before" side carries coral red accent `#E8655A` on its pain-point markers only (about 4% of total canvas). Right "After" side carries muted teal `#5FA8A8` on solution markers only (about 3%). Total color accent stays under 8%. Deck's primary `#1E3A5F` and secondary `#F8F9FA` are intentionally not used here — mono-ink's discipline is the visual point. [...container guidance...] |