# Visual style: ink-wash

New-Chinese ink-wash — a rice-paper field, vast literati whitespace, restrained brush marks, a single seal-stamp accent. Still, considered, Eastern. For cultural reading-shares, philosophy, heritage, self-cultivation, 新中式 narratives.

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## 1. Shape & decoration

- Shape language: minimal brush-stroke marks and hairline dividers; the occasional ink-dark block; a single seal-stamp (印章) square as a focal accent. No cards, no boxes — emptiness is the structure. The brush-stroke and ink-bleed marks are irregular `<path>` shapes with uneven control points — never an `<ellipse>` / `<circle>` standing in for a wash, which reads as fake ink. (The seal-stamp square is the one deliberate hard edge.)
- Composition geometry: one broad brush sweep as the page's diagonal spine; an open ensō-like ring framing the core phrase; a vertical scroll band ordering a sequence; a low wash horizon with content floating in the emptiness above; the seal square placed to counterweight an asymmetric field.
- Decoration: almost none; what little appears reads as brush and seal. Asymmetric, scroll-like composition with deliberate off-balance.
- Whitespace: vast and intentional — the rice-paper field carries most of the page; a few elements float in great calm.

## 2. Typography character

- Brush / serif character for titles (calligraphic, expressive) against a clean modern sans body — a Kai × Hei contrast axis. Large airy titles, generous leading, vertical rhythm welcome.

> Families are chosen at confirmation `g`; this style asks for a calligraphic-brush title × clean-sans body *character*.

## 3. Using the deck's colors

- A pale rice-paper field dominates; ink-dark carries type and the rare ink shape; a single warm seal-red accent appears at one key point — scarce, like a stamp on a scroll.
- Near-monochrome ink discipline — restraint is the aesthetic, not abundance.

> HEX values come from confirmation `e`; this style only governs the ink-on-paper, single-seal-accent discipline — it names no colors.

## 4. Texture / elevation

- Flat — emptiness and brush weight carry depth, not shadow. Optional faint paper grain or low-opacity ink-bleed wash; no drop shadows.

## 5. Paired image-rendering

`ink-notes` or `watercolor` — mono-ink or soft-wash imagery that shares the literati restraint.

## 6. Illustration propensity

**supportive** — a single brush mark or seal can anchor a page, but stillness and whitespace lead; use very few, very quiet. With no user steer this is the default lean; an explicit user request wins either way, and `image_usage: none` writes no illustration rows.
