| 1 | # Visual style: paper-cut |
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| 3 | Layered paper-craft — scissor-cut shapes stacked in tactile layers, soft shadow where layers overlap. Warm, hand-made, child-friendly without being childish. For education, children's content, cultural / folk topics, festival, sustainability. |
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| 7 | ## 1. Shape & decoration |
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| 9 | - Shape language: forms defined by crisp, slightly-irregular cut edges (no outlines); simplified, stylized shapes that read as cut paper rather than illustration. Those cut edges are irregular `<polygon>` / `<path>` outlines, not a clean `<rect>` / `<circle>`, which reads as a digital box rather than torn paper. |
| 10 | - Composition geometry: stacked wave sheets building the page bottom-up; a die-cut window revealing the layer beneath; one large cut disc (sun / moon) anchoring the composition; tabbed sheet edges ordering steps; a foreground frame layer with the content on the sheet behind it. |
| 11 | - Decoration: layering itself is the device — each element is a "sheet" stacked over the one beneath; small cut-out accents on the top layer. |
| 12 | - Whitespace: cozy, composed — the backing sheet shows through as breathing room. |
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| 14 | ## 2. Typography character |
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| 16 | - Clean friendly sans; warm, not severe. Titles can sit on a cut-paper banner shape. |
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| 18 | > Families are chosen at confirmation `g`; this style asks for a warm, rounded, approachable sans *character*. |
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| 20 | ## 3. Using the deck's colors |
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| 22 | - Each color reads as one sheet of paper — the primary is the dominant foreground sheet, the secondary the backing field, the accent a small top-layer cut-out. |
| 23 | - Layering and overlap drive emphasis more than proportion: even a small primary sheet in front of a large secondary reads as primary-led. |
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| 25 | > HEX values come from confirmation `e`; this style only governs the each-color-is-a-sheet, layering discipline — it names no colors. |
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| 27 | ## 4. Texture / elevation |
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| 29 | - Real layered depth — a soft, low-opacity drop shadow under cut layers is core here (the style where layered shadow is the point, not a violation). Matte paper grain on each sheet. |
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| 31 | ## 5. Paired image-rendering |
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| 33 | `paper-cut` — layered cut-paper imagery sharing the tactile, hand-made depth. |
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| 35 | ## 6. Illustration propensity |
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| 37 | **core** — layered cut-paper elements *are* the style, and the slicer's transparent cutouts match it natively; with no user steer, default to recommending a coherent spot-illustration family. Default *lean* only — heaviness and placement stay Strategist judgment, an explicit user request wins either way, and `image_usage: none` writes no illustration rows. |
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