Public Safety Warning Notice
A public-safety notice over a real weather scene, where the advice is ranked — do this now, do this today, know this — instead of listed as eight equal bullets. Seven fields.
We made two examples: a heat warning over a hazy street, and a storm warning over a heaving quay. Both have the same three bands and a single signature, and in both the first band holds only the two things worth doing right away.
The advice is set in three bands at three weights, so reading only the red one tells you what is most urgent. The title splits so the red half is the instruction rather than the hazard, the issuer's bar names it once, and the card is translucent enough to show the scene behind it. The time of day in the scene can change, and the card's opacity varies enough to soften the background.
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Input
Hazard a heat warning for a city working week
Title HEAT IS COMING - WORK EARLY
Issuer the Vibary studio street association
Now move outdoor work before eleven · freeze bottles
tonight
Today check the top floor · close south blinds · bench into
shade
Know brick holds heat till midnight · cafe doors stay open
· the fountain is drinkable
Scene hazy street under a white sun, shimmer over brick
Returned 1 notice · 2:3 · scene behind a translucent card
scene the street runs the full height behind everything, heat
visible in the air, the card letting it through
title HEAT IS COMING in white, WORK EARLY in red beneath it,
the red half naming what to do
issuer a yellow arrow bar under the title, black type, the
association named once
bands ACT NOW in red with two items at the largest body size ·
ACT TODAY in amber with three · KEEP IN MIND in grey
with three, smallest
verdict read only the red band and you have done the two things
that matterYou fill in 7 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The hazard and the season
- 2The title, plain half and red half
- 3The issuing body
- 4Act now — two things
- 5Act today — three things
- 6Keep in mind — three things
- 7The scene and the palette
Public Safety Warning Notice
What this makes
A public-safety notice over a real weather scene, where the advice is ranked — do this now, do this today, know this — instead of listed as eight equal bullets. Seven fields.
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 seven FIELDS lines. Sort every instruction into now, today or know before writing anything — the ranking is the whole point and it is a thinking job, not a design one.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the notice.
- Read only the top band aloud. If someone who did just those two things would be substantially safer, the ranking is right.
What you swap
- The hazard and the season
- a heat warning for a city working week
- The title, plain half and red half
- HEAT IS COMING — WORK EARLY
- The issuing body
- issued by the Vibary studio street association
- Act now — two things
- Move outdoor work to before eleven · Fill and freeze bottles tonight, the shops sell out by noon
- Act today — three things
- Check on anyone on the top floor · Close south-facing blinds before you leave · Move the bench into the shade of the arch
- Keep in mind — three things
- Brick holds heat until midnight · The cafe stays open with the doors wide · The fountain is drinkable
- The scene and the palette
- a hazy afternoon street under a white sun, heat shimmer over the bricks · deep amber ground, red for the hazard, yellow for the issuing bar, a bone card
Before it runs
- Advice you can rank. If all eight items are equally urgent then the notice has no first thing, and a reader in a hurry will pick one at random.
- Instructions written as actions. `Be careful in high winds` cannot be done; `stay clear of the scaffolding on the north side` can.
- A real issuing body. An unsigned notice is a poster, and people treat it like one.
When to reach for it
For a community notice, a weather warning, a site rule, a seasonal advisory. Posters like this get made in a hurry and read in a hurry, and the standard version gives a reader eight equal instructions with no idea which one to act on first.
What changes
- One urgent scene behind a translucent card, so the conditions and the advice occupy the same poster rather than sitting in separate halves.
- The advice is banded by urgency — act now, act today, keep in mind — so a reader who only reads the top band still does the thing that matters.
- The title splits into a plain half and a red half, and only the red half names the hazard.
- The issuing body is named once in a marked bar, which is what makes a notice a notice rather than a poster.
- Two type sizes and four colours only, at a scale that survives being printed small and taped to a door.
Pairs with
- 8-Bit Sticker Title CoverAn 8-bit title in white on a dark pixel-grid screen, with three neon sticker tags stuck crooked underneath and a hand-drawn face in the corner. Five fields.
- Black & Gold Countdown PosterA black-and-gold countdown poster where one huge numeral holds the middle in clear air, and every other fact is said exactly once, in one of three bands. Six fields.
- Black Big-Word Quote PosterMatte black, white type, nothing else — a thin quote holding the top against one enormous rounded word below, with the three sizes fixed by ratio rather than by eye. Five fields.