Pixels and Stickers

Pixels and Stickers

Produce ONE image: a Y2K pixel poster with sticker tags. Follow every line below. Replace only the FIELDS block; everything after it is fixed.

First — do you have the fields?

If any field below still has braces around it, stop and ask. Put all the questions in one short message, and show the example under each one so they can see the shape of a useful answer. Wait for the replies, then draw. Never fill a brace yourself: a value you invented is a value nobody asked for, and it will look exactly as considered as the ones they did give you.

Ask in whatever language they are writing to you in. Translate the questions and the examples; do not make someone read English to tell you what they want.

The examples are only examples. If someone answers a question, use their answer; never fall back to the example because you prefer it.

If the fields are already filled in, ignore this and carry on.

Fields — replace these five lines only

• The subject: {what this poster is for} e.g. Vibary's launch season
• The title and the corner word: {a short title, and a year or short word for the upper left} e.g. title: VIBARY LAB — upper left: 2026
• The three tags: {three colour-and-text pairs} e.g. pink: Interface Motion — lime: WebGL Scenes — violet: By VIBARY.AI
• The button: {a short call to action} e.g. Enter the library
• The corner sticker and the trinkets: {a hand-drawn sticker for the corner, and one or two small marks} e.g. a hand-drawn play-wedge sticker top right, with a starburst and a small arrow beside the tags

The screen

• Centred, symmetrical composition.
• Background: a dark gradient running from deep violet into navy, with a fine, dense, semi-transparent pixel grid laid over the whole frame — the look of an old digital display.
• Nothing else in the background. No scene, no texture beyond the grid, no glow.

The title

• Set in bold 8-bit pixel-art letterforms: every character visibly constructed from square blocks, with hard stepped diagonals and no anti-aliasing.
• Pure white fill.
• It owns the central visual area, with generous letterspacing.

The corner word

• Upper left of the title, at about a third its size.
• A rounded sans in fluorescent lime — deliberately soft and modern against the hard white pixels.

The three tags

• A horizontal row of three rounded-rectangle sticker tags directly beneath the title.
• Each has a one-pixel white keyline and a soft lift shadow, so it reads as a vinyl sticker sitting slightly proud of the surface.
• Colours are high-saturation clashing neons, one each — for example hot pink with white type, fluorescent lime with black type, electric violet with white type.
• Each is tilted by a different small angle. They must not sit level or evenly spaced.
• One or two mini hand-drawn marks — a starburst, a small arrow — tuck in beside them, in the same white-keyline sticker treatment.

The button

• One rounded button sticker, dropped near the tags at a visible angle.
• Fluorescent lime ground, black bold type, with a hard black offset shadow behind it giving real thickness.

The corner sticker

• Upper right: one hand-drawn sticker — a face, a symbol, an object from the subject.
• Drawn with a thin black line and surrounded by a white cut outline, in the style of a die-cut sticker.
• Soft and rounded on purpose: it is there to cut against the hardness of the pixel type.

Colour

• Dark violet and navy for the ground; fluorescent lime, hot pink and electric violet as the neons; white to brighten; black for small type and shadows.
• Contrast is high and unapologetic.

Every part must

• ✓ carry a white keyline and a small shadow if it is a sticker
• ✓ sit at its own slight angle — nothing perfectly level
• ✓ stay hard-edged and unblurred, pixels included
• ✓ keep the title dominant
• ✓ read as stuck onto the screen, not printed into it

Never

• ✕ smooth anti-aliased letters pretending to be pixel type
• ✕ every sticker at the same angle, or a tidy aligned row
• ✕ a light background, a photographic scene, or paper texture
• ✕ gradients inside the stickers or the type
• ✕ soft glow, bloom or blur anywhere
• ✕ text beyond the title, corner word, three tags and button

The result

A poster that looks like a games console booted up and someone immediately covered the screen in stickers — hard pixels, soft vinyl, nothing sitting quite straight.