# Visual System

Style name: Cafe Menu Pop

## Intended Use

Use for cafes, restaurants, menu planning, store operations, customer reviews, service improvement, and friendly business education.

## Core DNA

cream, coffee brown, strawberry red, sky blue, butter yellow, menu board, review bubbles

## Tone

Make each slide feel like a cheerful illustrated neighborhood-cafe menu board adapted for a paid lecture: warm, approachable, practical, handmade, lively, and readable.

## Palette And Materials

- Warm cream paper with subtle fiber and grain.
- Coffee-brown wood frames, counters, trays, clipboards, and chalkboard bands.
- Strawberry red for action and emotional emphasis.
- Sky blue or deep teal for work, flow, and guidance.
- Butter yellow for improvement, recommendations, and successful states.
- Leaf green for plants and small freshness accents.
- Ceramic, kraft paper, stitched cloth, chalk, pencil, ink, colored pencil, wood, and paper-cut shadow.

## Typography

- Use one oversized friendly Japanese paper-cut, hand-lettered, or chalk-like headline.
- Mix coffee brown with one strawberry-red phrase and a subtle offset paper shadow.
- Place the subline in a sky-blue stitched ribbon.
- Put three labels in large strawberry-red, deep-teal, and butter-yellow stitched plaques.
- Use a thick dark coffee-brown chalkboard band with a white steaming-cup icon for the bottom takeaway.

## Required Page Architecture

Every slide must include:

- One dominant hand-drawn Japanese headline.
- One short sky-blue stitched subline ribbon.
- One central cafe-service, recipe, menu, review, tray, counter, or preparation metaphor.
- Exactly three visible label elements unless the user explicitly requests otherwise.
- One dark chalkboard takeaway band with cup emblem.
- Supporting latte, cake, cookie, plant, leaf, ingredient jar, serving tray, recipe box, blank menu/order card, magnifier, review bubble, or chalk doodle at the edges.

## Character And Object Treatment

Use a friendly cafe staff member, small customer, or staff hand only when the concept needs a human role. Keep the diagram dominant.

Keep every menu card, order slip, recipe card, review bubble, board, jar, cup, box, and notebook free of writing, brands, dates, prices, and pseudo-text. Use nonverbal hearts, stars, checks, arrows, ingredient icons, cups, cakes, and trays.

## Style Preservation

Match `assets/reference-slides/style-reference.png` and `samples/contact_sheet.png`. Preserve paper warmth, wood framing, three-color plaque system, hand-drawn type, stitches, cafe objects, blank review-card language, edge density, and chalkboard conclusion.

Do not reduce the family to beige business cards with a coffee cup. A generic cafe brochure or clean restaurant template fails.

## Avoid

- Generic Gamma, Canva, PowerPoint, dashboard, spreadsheet, restaurant-brochure, or food-delivery-app templates.
- Equal flat cards without one cafe-service hero metaphor.
- Photoreal stock food, luxury hotel styling, neon nightlife, cyber visuals, or candy gradients.
- Fake URLs, QR codes, logos, dates, prices, contact details, brands, and real service UI.
- Unrelated English, pseudo-text, footnotes, or tiny Japanese.
- Overly childish mascots, copied identities, or decorative food that blocks the teaching point.
