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Benday Press

Print: Contour drawing, Ben-Day dots, Offset misregistration

a 1960s American diner counter, waitress and jukebox
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an adventurer in a flight jacket looking up at a storm sky
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a ringing red rotary telephone with motion lines
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The prompt

Vintage golden-age pop comic print of {subject}: bold uniform black contour lines, Ben-Day halftone dot shading, a tight primary palette from {palette} on warm cream, flat punchy fields, slight offset off-registration.

Techniques
Contour drawing, Ben-Day dots, Offset misregistration

pop, comics, halftone, ben day, four colour

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Hero: a punchy figure-in-scene
  • Avatar: a bold confident character portrait
  • Empty state: a single iconic object
  • Thumbnail: a confident comic panel

In the lineage of

  • Ben-Day process printing, tradition. halftone dot shading
  • Golden-age American comic printing, movement. pulp four-colour press

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

Produced by unrecorded, sourced by unrecorded, images by unrecorded

Remix with this style

Apply Benday Press to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.