Swiss Grid

Müller-Brockmann restraint — a strict grid, two inks, all whitespace.

Swatch shows the same line — Signal over noise — rendered in this material, so the surface is the only variable.

Prompt formula

SURFACE:  Warm white uncoated stock with only a faint offset ink grain. Two inks - black and one signal red (#E1261C). Strict mathematical grid, generous white space, flush-left asymmetric alignment, thin black hairline rules, absolutely no ornament, no illustration, no gradient, no shadow, no texture beyond paper grain. Restraint is the entire point. Hero - one precise geometric construction occupying the right two-thirds — three concentric rings of graduated weight around a common centre, cut by a fan of radiating hairlines, with exactly ONE segment filled solid red. Each of the three rings ends in its own thin horizontal leader rule, the three rules stacked on a shared left alignment so they read as one tidy stack; a rule carries a small flush-left label ONLY when the page's TEXT provides one. The page's TEXT set very large with tight tracking, flush left in the upper-left quadrant, anchoring the whole composition against the construction. Every element sits on the same modular grid; nothing floats. Cool, exact, Müller-Brockmann discipline.
SKELETON: auto by page role (cover / chapter / list / compare)
DEVICE:   the page's argument drawn as a form native to this material
END:      Full-bleed 16:9 — render DEVICE on the SURFACE, per the page's composition.
CRITICAL: title = the page's TEXT in its own language, clean and legible; NEVER invent words or glyphs beyond TEXT;
annotations only as marks / numbers / dimension lines; no UI, no cards, no captions.

Source

Material recipe from the PPT-Zen 32-material library. Our own artwork.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · contributions via DCO

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