| 1 | # Visual style: ink-notes |
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| 3 | Whiteboard-ink minimalism — a pale field, confident black hand-ink line work, sparse semantic color. Considered and manifesto-clear, the professional end of hand-drawn. For methodology, before/after essays, mindset-shift narratives, technical manifestos. |
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| 7 | ## 1. Shape & decoration |
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| 9 | - Shape language: hand-drawn line work with slight, intentional wobble — boxes, arrows, dividers and brackets sketched as if on a thoughtful whiteboard; never mechanically straight — realize it as `<path>` / `<polyline>` with off-grid points, not `<rect>` / `<line>` primitives. Line defines structure; no filled cards. |
| 10 | - Composition geometry: a circled central concept with branch arrows carrying the page; a hand-drawn Venn or overlap sketch as the argument; strike-through-and-replace geometry for before/after; one oversized bracket grouping the evidence under the claim. |
| 11 | - Decoration: minimal — a few doodle marks (stars, dashes, dots, underlines) for emphasis. Restraint is the look; clutter breaks the "considered" feel. |
| 12 | - Whitespace: generous and empty; the pale field carries most of the canvas, elements float with room around them. |
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| 14 | ## 2. Typography character |
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| 16 | - Hand-lettered / humanist character for titles — bold, slightly oversized, confident. Plain legible sans for body. |
| 17 | - Reads as written-by-hand-but-deliberate, not corporate-precise. |
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| 19 | > Families are chosen at confirmation `g`; this style asks for a humanist / hand-lettered title *character*. |
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| 21 | ## 3. Using the deck's colors |
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| 23 | - Near-monochrome: ink-dark line work on a pale field carries the composition; the deck's accent remains a sparse semantic mark for risk, positive state, or emphasis. |
| 24 | - Color carries meaning, not decoration; use only the accents that signify something on the current page. |
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| 26 | > HEX values come from confirmation `e`; this style only governs the monochrome-with-semantic-accent discipline — it names no colors. |
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| 28 | ## 4. Texture / elevation |
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| 30 | - Strictly flat — no shadows, no paper grain (the field stays clean). Depth reads from line weight and spacing alone. |
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| 32 | ## 5. Paired image-rendering |
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| 34 | `ink-notes` — black-ink visual-note imagery on a clean field, matching the considered hand-drawn aesthetic. |
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| 36 | ## 6. Illustration propensity |
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| 38 | **supportive** — the style is already sparse and considered; a few hand-ink spots fit, but restraint is its temperament — use only where one genuinely earns its place. With no user steer this is the default lean; an explicit user request wins either way, and `image_usage: none` writes no illustration rows. |
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