Type Posters
Signal Red Contour Poster
A severe two-ink public-information poster system built from a near-black field, one monumental flat silhouette defined by an agitated signal-red contour, and detached white grotesk text arranged around the perimeter like urgent fragments.

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Full style rules
Style anchors
- Use an almost pure black ground occupying roughly eighty-five percent of the image, with no pictorial background scene.
- Build the composition around one huge black-filled silhouette that nearly disappears into the ground and is revealed by a vivid signal-red perimeter contour.
- Make the red contour uneven, scraped, dry-brush, and slightly broken, with variable thickness and occasional edge chatter.
- Keep the image resolutely flat and poster-like, without modeled volume, spatial depth, perspective scenery, or cast shadows.
- Arrange large white neo-grotesk uppercase text as detached fragments around the outer margins rather than as a conventional centered headline.
- Rotate at least one supporting text block ninety degrees and allow deliberate collisions or near-tangencies between type and the contour subject.
- Maintain an asymmetric perimeter balance with broad uninterrupted black negative space between typographic islands.
- Restrict the palette to black, white, and one saturated emergency red, with red used only for contours and tiny signal marks.
- Use very small red typographic or geometric symbols as a secondary information layer near an edge or corner.
- Keep interior detail extremely sparse: only a few red contour loops or cuts may describe the subject's essential structure.
- Favor an austere late-modernist public-information mood mixed with raw expressionist mark-making.
- Preserve hard digital black and white fields while confining tactile print abrasion to the red ink edges.
Do
- Do preserve the huge black-on-black silhouette and its raw red perimeter trace.
- Do keep text crisp, white, uppercase, fragmented, and margin-led.
- Do use one rotated text cluster and one tiny red signal cluster.
- Do simplify new subjects into bold icon-like masses.
- Do retain large quiet black zones and severe tonal contrast.
Avoid
- Avoid photorealism, 3D rendering, gradients, soft lighting, shadows, and cinematic depth.
- Avoid dense illustrated environments, multiple characters, decorative borders, stickers, or collage clutter.
- Avoid filled red shapes larger than a small accent; the dominant form remains black.
- Avoid rounded playful display fonts, serif type, handwriting, or grunge applied to the white lettering.
- Avoid tobacco imagery, copied warnings, signatures, credits, logos, and source-specific anatomy.
Negative prompt
Photorealism, photographic backgrounds, 3D render, volumetric light, gradients, glow, shadows, modeled anatomy, realistic skin, perspective scenery, multiple subjects, crowded objects, collage, halftone photo, paper mockup, decorative frame, sticker pack, large red fills, extra colors, serif type, script type, playful rounded fonts, distressed white type, centered conventional headline, tobacco, cigarette, cigar, pipe, smoke cloud, smoking gesture, copied German warning text, copied human silhouette, signature, artist credit, logo, watermark, username, QR code, platform mark.




