Agent skill · nousresearch
mono-color
Generate one- or two-ink editorial print poster images.
What it needs
About 6k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Mono-Color Editorial Print Skill Turn any user theme, sentence, or reference photo into an original printed editorial artifact with one stable visual language: adaptive neutral substrate + one or two inks + mechanically reproduced image + typographic tension + concise human voice. This skill designs and generates the image; it does not imitate any one reference, copy a source composition, wording, logo, or artwork, and it never uses more than two printing inks. When to Use The user asks for a monochrome editorial poster, duotone print, risograph/zine poster, halftone photo treatment, one-ink or two-ink cover, or names the mono-color style. Chinese trigger vocabulary includes 单色海报、双色印刷、单色调视觉、蓝色/绿色孔版印刷、网点照片、复古或当代编辑排版. Do not trigger merely because a request mentions a color. Prerequisites The Hermes imagegenerate tool (search/describe it via the deferred-tool catalog if not loaded). If image generation is unavailable, deliver prompt-only and say so. The design-system/ catalogs bundled with this skill (see Quick Reference). Quick Reference Print modes: Mode When --- --- Pure one-ink User explicitly requests one ink, monochrome, or one named ink without a second color Chromatic ink + black Quiet, observational, natural, architectural, long-form subjects; chromatic plate carries the image, carbon/charcoal carries text Complementary duotone General default; dominant plate 70–85%, accent 15–30% with a specific role; fallback pair Cobalt + Terracotta #2148B8 + #C65F38 Overprint duotone Two plates deliberately overlap; the darker mixed zone is not a third ink Catalogs (source of truth — when an exact value differs, the catalog wins over any prose; read only the catalog relevant to the current decision): File Provides --- --- design-system/colors.json Substrate IDs + exact hex, one-ink palette, approved two-ink pairs design-system/compositions.json Layout-family IDs and geometry design-system/typography.json Type-hierarchy role IDs design-system/rhythm.json Visual tension pro …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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