Oxblood-Serif-Magazincover-Layout im Collage-Stil

{ "style_name": "Paper Mastheads", "style_slug": "oxblood-serif-cover-collage", "canvas": "4:5 portrait, full-bleed bone-paper field #EDE5D8 with visible fiber grain and print noise", "color": { "paper": "#EDE5D8 — warm bone, never pure white", "masthead_red": "oxblood #9E1C24, slightly ink-starved with paper texture showing through", "headline_cream": "#F2EADD, set against the subject's black clothing for contrast", "cover_line_ink": "near-black #1A1A18", "rule": "two colors of ink only — oxblood and black — on paper; the portrait is the only greyscale" }, "typography": { "masthead": "very large condensed didone / Bodoni-style serif, ALL CAPS, oxblood, spanning full width at the top, tightly kerned; the subject's head ALWAYS eclipses 2–4 letters", "headline": "large cream didone serif, ALL CAPS, 2–3 lines, tight leading, bottom third, overlapping the dark clothing; the last line is cropped by the bottom edge", "cover_lines": "small bold condensed grotesque, ALL CAPS, near-black, stacked 2–3 words per line, left column (occasionally a matching right column), separated by thin hairline rules", "ornament": "a small four-pointed star / sparkle diamond in oxblood, used as a separator between cover lines and once floating near the headline" }, "photography": { "portrait": "high-contrast black-and-white, warm-toned, cut out from its background and layered over the masthead; sharp skin texture, pores, greys and lines all preserved; black garment that dissolves into the lower frame; direct or three-quarter gaze, no smile", "casting": "one real practitioner per cover, distinct age and background across the set", "inserts": "2–3 red duotone photographs with rough torn-paper edges and halftone dot texture, stacked down the right side, showing the subject's world (site, process, detail)", "foreground_object": "one real object in black-and-white entering from the bottom edge — it overlaps and interrupts the headline" }, "design_rules": [ "the masthead is never fully legible — occlusion is the signature, not a mistake", "the headline must overlap the portrait, never sit in empty paper", "collage inserts stay on ONE side; the cover lines take the other", "everything is print artifact — paper grain, halftone, torn edges, slight ink misregistration" ], "swap_variables": { "field": "lunar architecture / ceramics / polar biology / jazz", "masthead": "CULTURE / KILNCRAFT / POLARIS / NOCTE", "headline": "ARCHITECT OF DUST / FORM FROM FIRE / LIFE BELOW ZERO / NIGHT HAS A PULSE", "cover_lines": "three 2–3 word phrases — a topic, a format, an issue number", "insert_stack": "habitat + crew / kiln + shelves + hands / rig + cells + station / trumpet + score + baton", "foreground_object": "blueprint roll / clay shard / sample vial / metronome" } }