The Selected Layer

The Selected Layer

Produce ONE image: a landscape cover of one script word caught mid-edit, in the fixed style world below. Follow every line. Replace only the FIELDS block; the style itself is not negotiable.

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 seven lines only

• The title word: {one word, or two short ones} e.g. Motion
• The embedded symbol: {one simple glyph, and which stroke it fuses into} e.g. a small play wedge fused into the M's opening stroke
• Ink colour: {one saturated colour} e.g. royal violet #5B5BD6
• Paper tint: {a pale paper colour} e.g. warm cream specialty paper
• Identity line: {a short parenthetical} e.g. (AI design, in the browser)
• Studio line: {a name or address} e.g. vibary.ai
• Year mark: {a year or number} e.g. 2026

Print only these words. The style may not invent a title, a symbol or a signature.

The style world — fixed

• Landscape 3:2. The ground is the paper tint rendered as real specialty paper: fine tooth, a soft diagonal light gradient, and nothing else on it.
• The word is written, not typeset: a lavish flowing script with connected letters, elegant swells and a trailing flourish, in the ink colour at full saturation with a slight double-print offset that reads as ink shimmer. The embedded symbol fuses into exactly one stroke, seamless enough to miss on first look. The word spans about sixty percent of the width, centred on the golden ratio.
• The editor chrome selects it: a thin tool-blue rectangle tight around the word, eight hollow white square anchors at its corners and midpoints, one blue crosshair alignment mark standing off the left edge, and a white arrow cursor hovering at the lower-right corner.
• The three small texts sit in their corners in a small clean sans: the identity line upper-right inside a pink dashed selection, the studio line lower-left inside a pink dashed selection with a tiny blue cross beside it, the year lower-right bare. All far smaller than the word.
• Colour system: the ink leads; the chrome runs tool-blue in two depths; the dashed selections are soft pink; the paper does the rest. Nothing else appears.

Every cover must

• ✓ carry the seven fields verbatim, and no other words
• ✓ fuse the symbol into a stroke, not beside the word
• ✓ draw the full chrome: frame, eight anchors, crosshair, cursor
• ✓ keep the paper texture visible and calm
• ✓ hold the corner hierarchy — nothing rivals the word

Never

• ✕ typeset script fonts that read as fonts — the word is written
• ✕ extra UI: menus, toolbars, rulers, windows
• ✕ a second colour family beyond ink, tool-blue, pink and paper
• ✕ drop shadows on the word, gloss, or embossing
• ✕ decoration on the paper — the emptiness is the elegance

The result

A cover that feels caught rather than finished: your word in wet ink, still selected, the cursor hovering — craft and warmth in one frame, ready to front whatever the studio ships next.