Someone Peeking In
Pure black on pure white: a bold title with a light byline under it, and a single-line creature leaning in from the right edge, only half of it in frame. Four fields.
Two runs of the same template. A robot hugging a wedge beside a sleepy owl in a conductor's cap leaning into a night bus timetable — half a creature at the right edge either way.
Generated from this template with the fields shown above — the robot is drawn in pure contour with no fill at all, hugs its wedge, keeps its bent antenna and faint smile, and leans in from the right edge with a real slice of it outside the frame. Run-to-run quirks: the creature can end up larger than the quarter-frame the template asks for, crowding the type's half. The pure black-on-white limit, the outline-only rule and the two-level type hold every time. Regenerated after the brand correction: the title now reads VIBE NOTES, since the library is a vibe library and its own name says so.
Generated for this library
Input
Subject Vibary's journal opener
Title VIBE NOTES
Byline Vibary · summer 2026
Creature a round little robot hugging a play wedge, one
antenna bent, smiling faintly, leaning in from the
right edge, half its body outside the frame
Returned 1 card · 3:2 · pure black on pure white
ground completely clean white, no texture, no tone, even
margins on all four sides
title VIBE NOTES left of centre in rounded bold sans, solid
black, centred within its own block
byline Vibary · summer 2026 directly beneath at about a third
the size, light weight, same centre line
creature the robot leaning in from the right edge, drawn in one
unbroken black contour, no fill and no shading, holding
its wedge, a small bent antenna, faint smile - roughly
half of it inside the frame
balance type left, creature right, both breathingYou fill in 4 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The subject
- 2The title
- 3The byline
- 4The creature
Someone Peeking In
Produce ONE image: a minimal black-and-white line-art card. 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 four lines only
- The subject: {what this card is for} e.g. Vibary's journal opener
- The title: {one short phrase} e.g. VIBE NOTES
- The byline: {a name, a date, or both} e.g. Vibary · summer 2026
- The creature: {what leans in from the right edge, its posture and its expression} e.g. a round little robot hugging a play wedge, one antenna bent, smiling faintly, leaning in from the right edge with only half its body inside the frame
The card
- Landscape 3:2.
- One hundred percent pure white background. No texture, no gradient, no tone, no noise, no ornament of any kind.
- Golden-section layout: the type block sits left of centre, the creature enters from the right edge.
- Even, generous margins on all four sides. Nothing runs to the edge except the creature, and only where it enters.
The type
- Two levels, both pure flat black, centred within their own block: - The title — large, bold, in a rounded sans with even stroke weight and no serifs. Solid and clearly the primary element. - The byline — directly beneath, at about a third the title's size, in a light weight. The contrast between them is unmistakable.
- No outline, no shadow, no gradient, no letterform effects.
The creature
- One simple hand-drawn creature or object at the right edge of the frame.
- Drawn as pure black contour lines only — flowing, rounded, even-weight strokes. No fill, no shading, no hatching, no texture.
- Only its outline creates the form. Only the features that make it recognisable are drawn; everything else is left out.
- Its expression is warm and simple — a small smile, a curious look — matching the subject's mood.
- It occupies roughly a quarter of the frame and only part of it is inside the image: it leans, peeks or reaches in from the right edge, with the rest implied beyond the frame.
- It balances the type across the page without ever competing with it.
Colour
- Exactly two: pure white and pure black. Nothing else, not even a grey.
Every part must
- ✓ stay pure black on pure white
- ✓ keep the creature in outline only
- ✓ leave part of the creature outside the frame
- ✓ hold the left-type, right-creature balance
- ✓ keep every edge crisp — nothing blurred or pixelated
Never
- ✕ colour, grey, tint or tone anywhere
- ✕ fill, shading, hatching or texture inside the creature
- ✕ the creature fully inside the frame
- ✕ a background pattern, a border, or a second illustration
- ✕ a detailed or realistic drawing style
- ✕ text beyond the title and the byline
The result
The simplest card this catalog can make — two words, a name, and something friendly leaning in from off-stage to see what you are doing.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the four FIELDS lines. Describe the creature by silhouette and one expression; detail beyond that will not survive being drawn in one line.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the card.
- Swap only the creature to run a set — a different animal or object per issue, same layout, and the series reads instantly as one thing.
What you swap
- The subject
- Vibary's journal opener
- The title
- VIBE NOTES
- The byline
- Vibary · summer 2026
- The creature
- a round little robot hugging a play wedge, one antenna bent, smiling faintly, leaning in from the right edge with only half its body inside the frame
Before it runs
- A creature that reads in outline alone. Anything needing fill, pattern or shading loses its identity the moment the colour is removed.
- A short title. It is set bold and large, and long ones crowd the creature out of its half of the page.
- Comfort with a mostly empty page — the emptiness is the design.
When to reach for it
Title cards, invitations, journal openers, a profile header. It is the cheapest possible design and it still has a personality, because something is looking at you from the edge.
What changes
- A finished 3:2 card on completely clean white with generous even margins.
- The title sits left of centre in a rounded bold sans, with a much lighter byline directly beneath it.
- One creature drawn in a single unbroken black line leans in from the right edge — only part of it inside the frame.
- No fills, no shading, no colour anywhere: contour lines alone carry the character.
- The whole thing is two colours and two objects, so it never gets cluttered no matter what it is used for.
Pairs with
- Cut From the PictureThree stacked words knocked out of a photograph, filled with the picture's own colour, above the strip of image they were cut from. Three fields.
- Every Letter a ThingOne word where no two letters are made of the same stuff — one is glass, one is a shell, one is a fish — floating over a road that runs to the horizon. Five fields.
- Four Cards, One PersonOne person sits in a bare studio while four frosted-glass cards hover around them — intro, skills, contact, link — with their title set enormous behind their shoulders. Six fields.