{
"style_rules": {
"background": "off-white/pale grey editorial canvas",
"focal_planes": "THREE optical layers — (1) foreground: 2-3 neon yellow-green spheres (tennis balls) heavily blurred at frame edges, (2) focus plane: athlete + navy title, tack sharp, (3) background: same title repeated ~3x larger in very pale grey (~10% opacity), reads as out-of-focus distance",
"title": "ultra-condensed heavy navy sans-serif, 2 words — athlete sandwiched between/overlapping the letters",
"subject": "real sports photography, athlete dressed in white/near-white so the navy type becomes the loudest element; small teal/orange gear accents allowed",
"doodles": "hand-drawn neon yellow-green starbursts/zigzags/squiggles annotating motion, kept sharp (they live on the focus plane)",
"issue_system": "orange ISSUE XX box top right + barcode + column label + 4-6 short imperative sentences as small body copy + vertical side-rail text",
"color_system": "navy + neon yellow-green + orange accents on off-white",
"format": "16:9 horizontal"
},
"negative": "everything uniformly sharp, dark background, subject in dark clothing, no foreground blur objects, single flat text layer, more than 3 accent colors",
"variables": {
"sport": "[dance / drumline / scooter / parkour]",
"title": "[2-word title: MOVE LOUD / BEAT RUSH / AIR MODE / FAST LINE]",
"issue_number": "[ISSUE 03 / ISSUE 12]",
"column_label": "[RHYTHM ISSUE DAILY FORM / tempo test field note / FLIGHT STUDY / URBAN ROUTE]",
"body_copy": "[4-6 short imperative sentences: 'Study the air. Control the spin. Every jump is data...']",
"blur_object": "[optional swap: tennis balls / any neon sphere]"
}
}