Mono Color Skill
An open-source editorial design skill that creates one- or two-ink image prompts and produces raster artwork when image-generation tools are available.
Mono Color Skill helps designers and publishers turn a theme, phrase, object or photograph into editorial artwork for posters, zines, covers and packaging. It focuses on limited ink palettes, visible paper and print textures.
- Limited ink palettes: Use two inks by default, with a dominant color and an accent assigned to selected details; explicit monochrome requests use one ink.
- Print styling: Create images with halftone dots, risograph grain, cyanotype or photocopy effects, asymmetric layouts and typography chosen to suit the content.
- Photo treatment: Keep supplied people, objects and scenes recognizable while changing their visual treatment; abstract requests preserve identifying details.
- Reference-based composition: Use a reference to guide design choices while building a different composition around your subject and words.
- Prompts and recipes: Receive the exact image-generation prompt and a short recipe describing the palette, layout, typography and print process, alongside raster artwork when image-generation tools are available.
Contemporary editorial styling is the default; vintage treatment requires a request. Image generation depends on a compatible tool. Without one, the skill returns a prompt. The project is open source under the MIT License. Third-party visual references remain the property of their creators and rights holders.