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name: newspaper-front-page
description: "Create Japanese 16:9 slide images in the original Newspaper Front Page style for news explainers, industry trends, urgent internal bulletins, and special editions. Use when Codex should turn numbered Japanese content into complete one-piece PNG slides matching the bundled off-white newsprint, black ink and signal red broadsheet sample family."
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# Newspaper Front Page

Create complete 16:9 Japanese slide images in the Newspaper Front Page 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 newsprint with paper grain and ink spread; thin black column rules and a double rule at the top; a narrow left column with a red feature flag, kicker headline, coarse halftone photo, tiny mincho body text and red-square item list; giant heavy black gothic front-page headlines with rough ink texture and a red closing word; lead decks between doubled red rules; boxed articles bounded by hairline black rules with solid red square number chips; monochrome halftone-style illustrations; solid red caption bands with letterspaced white labels and mincho caption lines; bold red gutter arrows; a right column with black TODAY'S FACTS and KEY INSIGHT header bars over boxed statistics; a full-width bottom ruled box with a red emphasis phrase and red underline. 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: Newspaper Front Page — Japanese breaking-news slide laid out as the front page of a broadsheet. Design DNA: off-white newsprint with visible paper grain and slight ink spread, ruled by thin black column rules and closed at the very top by a double rule; a narrow left column stacks a solid red feature flag, a small bold kicker headline, a coarse halftone black-and-white photo, a block of tiny mincho body text and a short list of items marked by small red squares; the center carries a giant front-page headline in heavy black gothic with rough ink texture, the closing word in red, followed by a lead deck where the subline sits between doubled red rules; the main body is ONE dominant row of boxed articles bounded by hairline black rules, each opened by a solid red square number chip at its top-left and filled with a monochrome halftone-style illustration, closed by exactly three solid red caption bands carrying widely letterspaced white Japanese labels with a one-line mincho caption beneath; bold red arrows sit in the gutters; a narrow right column stacks a solid black TODAY'S FACTS header over boxed statistics with oversized red figures, tiny icons and dotted separators, then a black KEY INSIGHT header over a short comment block and a small halftone photo; the bottom is a full-width ruled box holding a globe line icon, heavy black headline text with a red emphasis phrase, a red underline and a small rising-bar glyph; palette strictly off-white newsprint, black ink and signal red; dense, urgent, print-first.

Make every metaphor functional: blockers become red square stamps cutting one article's story flow with boxed sidebars naming them; change becomes a dense halftone manual article facing a two-deck article across a heavy column rule; steps become boxed articles opened by red number chips; improvement becomes four boxed articles circling a boxed pull-quote with red gutter arrows; checks become one bulletin panel of ruled check boxes with red ticks; roadmaps become boxed milestone articles hung on a black timeline rule with red date chips; priority becomes a hairline 2x2 news grid with one solid red winning cell; daily use becomes a day-in-the-life strip echoed as statistics in the right column; recap becomes one boxed editorial of stacked action lines under a KEY INSIGHT header. 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: Newspaper Front Page.
Design DNA: off-white newsprint with grain, thin black column rules and a top double rule; left column with red feature flag, kicker, halftone photo and red-square item list; giant heavy black gothic headline with rough ink texture and a red closing word; lead deck between doubled red rules; one dominant row of boxed articles with solid red square number chips and halftone illustrations; exactly three solid red caption bands with letterspaced white labels and mincho caption lines; bold red gutter arrows; right column with black TODAY'S FACTS and KEY INSIGHT bars over boxed statistics; full-width bottom ruled box with red emphasis and red underline
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, real identifiable people or celebrity likeness, real newspaper mastheads, 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.
