Clipped manga panels
Thick ink rules, one notched corner and a halftone block in the corner opposite. The deck crops and overlaps instead of tiling.
Rule 4px. Notch 20px. Halftone 84px.
Structure that reads like hardware.
Four mechanics make the kit. Panels are never three equal cards: one leads, the rest crop and overlap like a printed page.
Console chrome rails
A flat grey strip with two screws and a battery chip, attached only to edges that behave like hardware.
RUNLIVE84%
One lime tag
A single skewed highlight stroke behind the one active marker in a view. It never spreads into decoration.
Lime fills only. Text on paper uses #3A4A0E.
Terminal sticker clusters
Rotated mono labels with a checksum and a command prompt, clustered at the edge of a panel and balanced by blank paper.
FW 2.0.4SYNCEDCHK 7A3F
$ deck boot --profile osaka
load firmware ............ ok
mount paper field ........ ok
attach chrome rails ...... ok
route /dispatch/osaka-north LIVE
checksum 0x7A3F, 14 ms
Microcopy that confirms input.
Small text earns its place by acting like device metadata. Each label below is a promise the interface keeps.
| Press | Screen says | Within |
|---|---|---|
| A | Saved, with a checksum | 0.18 s |
| B | Back one panel | 0.09 s |
| Hold B | Asks before it drops a draft | 0.60 s |
Three steps to a deck.
Mount the paper
Warm ground, black rules and a halftone corner. The base under everything you build.
Frame the panels
One dominant deck, a few irregular fragments and one blank breach. Never equal cards.
Light the status
Spend the single lime mark on the one thing that is live. Everything else stays ink.