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name: brutalist-mono-block
description: "Create Japanese 16:9 slide images in the original Brutalist Mono Block style for audits, risk reviews, operational inventories, and hard-edged course content. Use when Codex should turn numbered Japanese content into complete one-piece PNG slides matching the bundled off-white, black and acid-green thick-border utility-block sample family."
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# Brutalist Mono Block

Create complete 16:9 Japanese slide images in the Brutalist Mono Block style. Turn business lessons into finished slide boards whose cards, arrows, labels, and diagrams stay readable as thumbnails while keeping this family's distinct look.

Generate each slide as one finished PNG with image_gen: background, Japanese text, diagrams, objects, icons, texture, and layout together. Do not rebuild the design with PPTX shapes, HTML/CSS, SVG, or local text overlays.

If this skill arrives as a ZIP, extract it first and read this file plus all required references. Do not infer the style from the ZIP name or cover alone.

## Required Reading

Read these before generating:

1. references/input-workflow.md
2. references/visual-system.md
3. references/slide-recipes.md
4. references/quality-bar.md

Inspect assets/reference-slides/style-reference.png, samples/contact_sheet.png, and all ten sample slides. Treat the ten samples as authoritative finished examples. Preserve the whole family's off-white grainy paper inside a very thick black frame; monospace all-caps system tags and black ID tags with acid-green code; enormous ultra-bold black gothic headlines set tight with an acid-green closing word; solid black subline bar with acid-green double chevrons; heavy black-bordered blocks with black header bars and acid-green square number chips; inner utility columns of dotted monospace rows with line icons; acid-green footer strips; blocky acid-green arrows; bordered audit-log tables with check rows; dot-grid and diagonal hatch patches; bottom band with an acid-green icon square and heavy black takeaway text. Do not copy only the cover layout.

## Non-Negotiable Workflow

1. Parse numbered user text into an ordered slide plan.
2. Preserve meaning while compressing long copy into one headline, one subline, exactly three short labels, and one bottom takeaway.
3. Choose one role from references/slide-recipes.md.
4. Generate exactly one complete 16:9 Japanese slide image at a time with image_gen.
5. Save as slide_01.png, slide_02.png, and so on.
6. Compare each result with the bundled contact sheet and quality bar.
7. Regenerate unreadable Japanese, invented details, logo-like marks, weak hierarchy, or generic template output.
8. If PPTX or PDF is requested, make PNG slide art first and place each PNG full-bleed into the delivery file.

## Design DNA

Style: Brutalist Mono Block — raw, high-tension Japanese operations slide built from thick-bordered utility blocks. Design DNA: off-white slightly grainy paper enclosed by a very thick black frame; a top utility strip carrying a small all-caps monospace system tag with acid-green slash hatching at the left and a solid black ID tag with acid-green monospace code at the right; an enormous ultra-bold black Japanese gothic headline set extremely tight with the closing word in acid green; directly under it one solid black bar with acid-green double chevrons at both ends holding the white subline; the main body is ONE dominant row of heavy black-bordered blocks, each opened by a solid black header bar containing an acid-green square number chip (01, 02, 03) and white gothic text, and split inside into a left utility column of small monospace rows with line icons divided by dotted rules and a right cell holding a black, gray and acid-green flat vector illustration; a full-width acid-green footer strip with black monospace caption closes each block; blocky acid-green arrows sit between blocks; a small bordered audit-log table with a black header and check rows anchors the bottom-left; the bottom band pairs an acid-green square holding a black crosshair glyph with heavy black gothic takeaway text and one emphasized phrase, plus a dot-grid patch and a diagonal hatch patch at the right; palette strictly off-white, jet black, acid green and warm gray; exactly three black header bars carry the labels; industrial, unpolished, zero softness; crisp flat vector, no photo, no realistic people.

Make every metaphor functional: blockers become solid black slabs stamped with acid-green X marks breaking one process track; change becomes a crammed paper block facing two stacked utility lanes across a very thick divider; steps become three heavy-bordered blocks with header bars and footer strips; improvement becomes a closed rectangular rig with green arrows running along the outer borders; checks become one audit board of oversized check rows with monospace code columns; roadmaps become milestone blocks bolted onto a thick black baseline rail; priority becomes a very thick 2x2 board with one solid acid-green winning cell; daily use becomes blocks hung from a rail of monospace time codes; recap becomes one console block of stacked action rows with OK status columns. Do not reduce the family to three equal cards with the right colors.

## Prompt Contract

Use this structure for every image:

Create exactly one complete 16:9 Japanese slide image.
Style: Brutalist Mono Block.
Design DNA: off-white grainy field inside a very thick black frame; monospace system tag and black ID tag with acid-green code; enormous tight ultra-bold black gothic headline with an acid-green closing word; solid black subline bar with acid-green double chevrons; one dominant row of heavy black-bordered blocks with inner dotted monospace utility columns and acid-green footer strips; exactly three black header bars with acid-green square number chips carrying the labels; blocky acid-green arrows; a bordered audit-log table; dot-grid and hatch patches; bottom band with an acid-green icon square and one emphasized phrase
Required Japanese text:
- Headline: [short headline]
- Subline: [short subline]
- Labels: [exactly 3 short labels]
- Bottom takeaway: [one concise sentence]
Slide role: [cover / problem / before-after / three-step / loop / checklist / roadmap / matrix / case / recap]
Composition: follow the matching recipe and inspect samples/contact_sheet.png. Use one dominant role-specific metaphor from references/slide-recipes.md instead of a generic card grid.
Generate background, text, diagrams, objects, texture, and layout together.
Avoid extra microcopy, page numbers, fake logos, QR codes, URLs, dates, prices, watermarks, photorealistic people, equal card grids, and generic PowerPoint/Canva/Gamma output.

## Output Defaults

- One 16:9 PNG per slide, Japanese text only, thumbnail-readable.
- File names slide_01.png through slide_NN.png in content order.
- Keep the family look consistent across every slide in a deck.
