# Visual System

## Core DNA

- Clean bright-white paper, never cream or kraft.
- Thick hand-drawn black ink outlines, hatch marks and imperfect fills.
- Cobalt blue for headline emphasis, arrows, label brushes, checks and borders.
- Pale gray for secondary objects; yellow only for small stars, lights, sun and underlines.
- Huge Japanese headline and a blue-outline ribbon subline.
- Sketchnote people, lightbulbs, documents, charts, magnifiers, checklists, folders, clocks, flags, targets and map pins.
- Black dotted connectors, cobalt arrows, speech clouds, underlines and side-note icons.
- One dominant information structure.
- Large outlined bottom takeaway banner with cobalt emphasis and yellow underline.

## Intended Use

Use for idea organization, application maps, learning summaries, process explanations, decision maps, and structured workshop recaps.

## Page Architecture

Use an oversized headline, a short outlined ribbon, one central black/cobalt information map, exactly three integrated labels, limited side icons, and a bold outlined takeaway banner.

Slides 02-10 are authoritative interior examples. Keep the white/black/cobalt/yellow restraint and dense but legible mapping vocabulary.

## Avoid

- Warm coaching paper, peach/teal pencil textures, kraft collage, tape, red stamps, or torn sheets.
- Uniform digital cards, generic dashboard polish, vector-perfect icons, or spreadsheet aesthetics.
- Fake logos, QR, URLs, dates, prices, platform UI, unrelated tiny words, photorealism, or 3D.
