| 1 | # Visual style: sketch-notes |
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| 3 | Warm hand-drawn sketchnote — soft paper field, black ink doodle line work, gentle pastel blocks. The most approachable style, friendly over precise. For education, training, onboarding, science communication, knowledge content. |
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| 7 | ## 1. Shape & decoration |
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| 9 | - Shape language: rounded shapes drawn with a slight wobble; pastel block fills that slightly overshoot their outlines (hand-painted feel); simple cartoon icons. Draw that wobble as a `<path>` with non-aligned points — a `<rect rx>` is not wobble. |
| 10 | - Composition geometry: a wavy-arrow journey path structuring the whole page; a radial mind-map around a central doodle; a hand-drawn banner ribbon carrying the title; numbered circles hopping along a dotted route; one cloud frame around the idea that matters. |
| 11 | - Decoration: small doodles — stars, sparkles, dots, underlines — sprinkled sparingly for warmth; wavy hand-drawn arrows connecting ideas with short inline labels. |
| 12 | - Whitespace: airy and well-organized; generous gaps between elements keep it friendly, never dense. |
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| 14 | ## 2. Typography character |
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| 16 | - Friendly hand-lettered titles; clear humanist body. Warmth and legibility over corporate severity. |
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| 18 | > Families are chosen at confirmation `g`; this style asks for a warm hand-lettered / humanist *character*. |
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| 20 | ## 3. Using the deck's colors |
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| 22 | - Warm, soft paper field; the deck's colors rendered as gentle pastel tints inside the blocks rather than full saturation; one accent reserved for a key arrow or emphasis. |
| 23 | - Generous but gentle — soft tints, never high-chroma or rainbow. |
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| 25 | > HEX values come from confirmation `e`; this style only governs the soft-pastel, warm-field discipline — it names no colors. |
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| 27 | ## 4. Texture / elevation |
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| 29 | - Flat 2D — sketchnote is intentionally flat. Optional subtle paper grain for warmth; no drop shadows. |
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| 31 | ## 5. Paired image-rendering |
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| 33 | `sketch-notes` — cream-paper hand-drawn imagery with soft pastel fills, sharing the friendly note aesthetic. |
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| 35 | ## 6. Illustration propensity |
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| 37 | **core** — doodle spots and hand-drawn marks are intrinsic here, not optional garnish; with no user steer, default to recommending a coherent spot-illustration family (the decoration this style is built on). This sets the 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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