Zine Photocopy
Third-generation photocopy: blown-out contrast, dashed cuts, shouty labels.
Construction · Halftone
Every tone is a dot screen coarse enough to count, printed inside a heavy ink outline. No smooth fills anywhere.
Concept shot — generated from this style's terms, the way a designer would present it. The specimen below is the contract: rendered from the exact tokens on this page.
Every style renders this same screen, so the only thing changing between two of them is the style. The component above is the file below, running.
Prompt
Design this interface in the Zine Photocopy style. Everything looks photocopied one time too many — pure black on grey, dashed cut lines, labels shouting in uppercase. Nothing is subtle and nothing is smooth. Build
The numbers in this prompt are printed from the tokens below, so it cannot drift from what the specimen renders.
What carries the look
- photocopy contrast
- dashed cut lines
- shouting uppercase
- no grey subtlety
What this style refuses
- gradients or soft shadows
- rounded corners
- pastel color
- delicate hairlines
The refusals are the half that keeps generated interfaces from converging — a prompt that only says what to add gets the default look.
Tokens
Palette
#e8e8e6#0c0c0c#f7f7f5#151515#111111#f0f0f0#0d0d0d#f7f7f5#4f4f4f#9e9e9e#111111#f7f7f5#f7f7f5#0c0c0cShape and type
Measured contrast — body 15.84:1 light, 18.24:1 dark; secondary text 6.68:1 and 7.3:1. Every pair clears WCAG AA in both themes, checked on each build.
Specimen · Specimen.tsx
import type { CSSProperties } from "react";
/**
* Vibary · Zine Photocopy
*
* Third-generation photocopy: blown-out contrast, dashed cuts, shouty labels.
*
* One complete product screen, rendered from the token object below —