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name: midcentury-modern-ads
description: "Create Japanese 16:9 slide images in the original Midcentury Modern Ads style for everyday operations, work-style improvement, and approachable service introductions. Use when Codex should turn numbered Japanese content into complete one-piece PNG slides matching the bundled cream, teal, burnt orange, olive, charcoal and pale yellow retro-advertisement sample family."
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# Midcentury Modern Ads

Create complete 16:9 Japanese slide images in the Midcentury Modern Ads 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 warm cream paper ground with printed grain, halftone dot gradients and slightly faded misregistered ink; enormous teal-and-charcoal Japanese gothic headlines with a burnt-orange final phrase riding a wide cream swash with a soft curved lower edge; atomic-age ornaments of thin-line orbiting atom diagrams, spoked sputnik starbursts and mustard halftone patches; long deep-teal ribbon banners with one rounded end, one notched arrow tail and a folded corner tab; cream panels framed by thin charcoal rules with solid corner number triangles; rounded organic retro flat illustration in a limited palette with soft halftone shading and no hard black outlines; warm ochre blobs behind figures; solid charcoal block arrows; full-width solid caption bands in burnt orange, teal and olive; a wide charcoal-black bottom band with a gold underline stroke, an orange corner wedge with a starburst and a teal corner with a rocket-and-arrow mark. 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: Midcentury Modern Ads — Japanese 1950s advertisement business slide. Design DNA: warm cream paper ground carrying a visible printed grain, faint halftone dot gradients and slightly faded, imperfectly registered ink so it reads as an old magazine page; the headline is enormous heavy Japanese gothic set in deep teal and charcoal with the final phrase in burnt orange, riding a wide cream swash that sweeps across the top with a soft curved lower edge and a light drop shadow, and is flanked by atomic-age ornaments — a thin-line orbiting atom diagram with small dark dots on elliptical rings, spoked sputnik starbursts in cream, olive and burnt orange with fine radiating needles, and a mustard halftone dot gradient patch fading out at one corner; the subline sits knocked out in white on a long deep-teal ribbon banner with one rounded end and one notched arrow tail plus a small folded corner tab in charcoal; the body is ONE dominant arrangement of three cream panels framed by thin charcoal rules, each opened by a solid corner triangle in burnt orange, teal or olive holding a white numeral, filled with retro flat illustration built from rounded organic shapes and simplified furniture-like silhouettes in a strictly limited palette with soft halftone shading and no hard black outlines, often set against a warm ochre blob; solid charcoal block arrows step between the panels; each panel closes with a full-width solid caption band in burnt orange, teal or olive carrying the label in heavy knocked-out white type; the bottom is one wide charcoal-black band with huge white text, a burnt-orange emphasis phrase and a thin gold underline stroke, with a burnt-orange corner wedge holding a cream starburst at its left and a teal corner holding a rising rocket-and-arrow mark at its right; palette is cream, teal, burnt orange, olive, charcoal and pale yellow only; the mood is warm, optimistic, domestic and printed — flat retro vector illustration on aged stock, never photographic.

Make every metaphor a 1950s advertising device: blockers become a curved route snagging on tangled line balls and stalled gear forms; change becomes a cream swash curve dividing a cluttered domestic scene from two clean colour bands; steps become three rule-framed cream panels with corner number triangles; improvement becomes an atomic orbit carrying three planet discs; checks become a product-spec card of oversized inspection rows; roadmaps become an arcing cream road through pennant milestone posts to a rocket mark; priority becomes a four-panel board with one burnt-orange recommended cell; daily use becomes a domestic-day strip of three rounded retro scenes; recap becomes a central advertisement card with three stacked colour action strips and a bursting starburst. 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: Midcentury Modern Ads.
Design DNA: warm cream paper with printed grain, halftone gradients and faded misregistered ink; enormous teal-and-charcoal Japanese gothic headline with a burnt-orange final phrase on a wide cream swash; atomic-age ornaments — orbiting atom rings, spoked sputnik starbursts, mustard halftone patches; a deep-teal ribbon subline banner with a notched arrow tail and folded corner tab; one dominant arrangement of cream panels framed by thin charcoal rules with solid corner number triangles and rounded retro flat illustration on ochre blobs; solid charcoal block arrows; exactly three full-width solid caption bands in burnt orange, teal and olive; a wide charcoal-black bottom band with a gold underline, an orange starburst wedge and a teal rocket mark
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.
