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name: minimal-monoline-icons
description: "Create Japanese 16:9 slide images in the original Minimal Monoline Icons style for procedure explanations, minimal teaching material, and simple business workflows. Use when Codex should turn numbered Japanese content into complete one-piece PNG slides matching the bundled off-white, charcoal, muted blue, sage and terracotta hairline-icon sample family."
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# Minimal Monoline Icons

Create complete 16:9 Japanese slide images in the Minimal Monoline Icons 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 flat off-white background with large margins; hairline charcoal strokes as the only structure; clean rounded Japanese gothic headline in charcoal with slate blue and terracotta words; hairline pill subline with connector path, open circle node and dashed tail; unfilled thin-stroke rounded-rectangle frames with small circled numbers; restrained flat illustrations in slate blue, sage, terracotta and warm gray; tiny dot-tail arrows; three solid filled label bars with white text and a round icon chip; sparse dot grids, thin arc outlines, four-point sparkles; hairline-outlined bottom band with dotted rule. 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: Minimal Monoline Icons — quiet off-white Japanese business slide built from hairline strokes and generous whitespace. Design DNA: flat off-white paper background with no texture and large breathing margins; headline is a big clean rounded Japanese gothic in charcoal with one word in muted slate blue and the emphasis word in terracotta, no outline, no shadow, no gradient; directly under it the subline sits inside a long pill outlined in a single hairline charcoal stroke, entered from the left by a thin connector path that terminates in a small open circle node and exiting right as a short dashed rule, with one tiny terracotta icon tucked inside the pill; the main body is ONE dominant diagram made of thin-stroke rounded-rectangle frames with no fill, each tagged in its top-left corner by a small circled number in slate blue, sage green or terracotta; inside the frames sit restrained flat illustrations in muted slate blue, sage green, terracotta and warm gray only; connectors are very small thin arrows with a dot tail; exactly three label bars sit flush at the bottom edge of each frame as the only solid filled shapes on the slide — slate blue, sage green and terracotta rounded rectangles with white text and a small round icon chip at the left end; decoration is minimal and geometric: a sparse dot grid in two corners, one large thin quarter-circle arc outline, tiny four-point sparkle marks, a three-line mark, a hairline circle badge holding an icon; the bottom is a full-width hairline-outlined band (not a filled band) with charcoal text, one phrase in terracotta, and a thin dotted rule beneath it; overall calm, editorial, uncluttered, generous negative space; crisp vector line illustration, no photo, no realistic people.

Make every metaphor a line: blockers become breaks in a single hairline path marked by open nodes; change becomes a tangle of strokes resolved into two clean parallel paths; steps become three hairline frames bridged by dot-tail arrows; improvement becomes one circle drawn as three arcs with arrowhead gaps; checks become three ruled rows with thin-stroke check circles; roadmaps become a stepping path through circle nodes; priority becomes a bare 2x2 of crossing axes with one tinted quadrant; daily use becomes a hairline timeline with three rising nodes; recap becomes one framed stack of icon chips behind a quarter-circle arc. 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: Minimal Monoline Icons.
Design DNA: flat off-white background with generous whitespace; clean rounded Japanese gothic headline in charcoal with a slate blue word and a terracotta emphasis word, no outline or shadow; hairline pill subline with a connector path, open circle node and dashed tail; one dominant diagram of unfilled hairline rounded-rectangle frames tagged with small circled numbers; restrained flat art in slate blue, sage green, terracotta and warm gray; tiny dot-tail arrows; exactly three solid filled label bars in slate blue, sage and terracotta with white text and round icon chips; sparse dot grids, thin arc outlines, four-point sparkles; hairline-outlined bottom band with a terracotta phrase and a dotted rule
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.
