# Cyanotype blueprint (sref-NHS7QS)

Slice style ref: sref-NHS7QS
Page: https://tryslicemedia.com/styles/sref-NHS7QS
Slug: cyanotype-blueprint

> THIS IS A MOODBOARD, NOT A TEMPLATE. The style below is inspiration for the look and feel. Keep its materials, colours, textures and the way it moves, but invent your own scenes, characters and objects for this clip. You are not limited to anything shown in the preview, and nothing in it has to appear. Use illustration and animation to help tell the clip's story.

## At a glance
- Feel: a sun-printed blueprint on brushed cyanotype paper, drafted line by line, then one yellow flow.
- Group: Print & press
- Energy: calm; mood: precise, clever, considered
- Pictures: all drawn, no photos needed
- Palette: #ECE6D6, #1B4378, #122F58, #F4F1E6, #F2C94C
- Preview shape: 9:16 (the look works in any shape: 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9)

## The look
A real cyanotype blueprint, a sun print on cotton paper. Ground: off-white paper #ECE6D6 with the Prussian blue emulsion (#1B4378 to #122F58) brushed on by hand: blotchy density, faint brush streaks, ragged dry-brush edges where the paper shows through, a fine pale grid, one soft fold crack. Line: everything is a pale negative line #F4F1E6 with a slight halo, as if light passed through a drawing; visible edges at one firm weight (about 0.55% of the short side) with square caps, hidden edges dashed and thinner, construction lines long, faint and chain-dashed. Drawing conventions: isometric views, dimension lines with arrowheads and small numbers set along them, numbered callout circles on leader lines, a ruled title block in a corner. Type: technical monospace capitals (B612 Mono), short labels only. Accent: one warm yellow #F2C94C, used only for a flow line with a soft glow and slow marching dashes. Camera: locked, flat to the sheet. Motion: drafted like a real drawing, construction lines first, then edges, then dimensions and callouts; the yellow flow running through the finished drawing is the one peak; then the lines fade from the sheet. The one rule: it is one technical drawing on one sun-printed sheet, white lines on brushed blue. DON'T: flowchart boxes, icons, glowing neon, gradients on the lines, digital blue screens, purple tints.

## What it suits
- Content: explainer, how-to, business, data-and-numbers, advice
- Tone: precise, confident, considered, clever
- Pace: medium
- Best for: explaining a system or framework: parts named one by one, then how it all flows together
- Avoid for: emotional, faith and comedy clips that want warmth or mess
- Keywords: blueprint, cyanotype, technical drawing, isometric, dimension lines, drafting, system
- Suits (from the library): Systems, Frameworks, Founders, Explainers, Process

## How to use it
Draft the system line by line on a blueprint through most of the clip, naming each part, then show how it flows, cutting back to the speaker once or twice for the big picture.

## Where the speaker sits
Suits Drawn over, Split, Full scene; avoid Side. (save_scene speaker: {"mode":"under"}, {"mode":"split","where":"below"}, {"mode":"hidden"})

## Story first
STORY FIRST. Read the whole clip before you design anything.
1. Write the clip's arc in one line: setup, tension, turn, pay-off. Name the one line that is the reveal.
2. Tag every sentence with its job: setup, context, tension, turn, reveal, example, number, contrast, list, quote, feeling, metaphor, callback, pay-off, aside.
3. The visuals carry the whole clip. If the clip shows the speaker's face, open on them (the first scene keeps them on screen) unless the person says otherwise. After that, never cut back to the speaker full-frame unless the person asks for it; if they do, only on the ending, never in the middle of an explanation. The speaker can still sit inside a scene (a corner, a split or drawn in) when the person wants to be seen.
4. Build one flowing visual story, not a new picture per sentence. Each scene covers a whole thought (one to three sentences), holds 3 to 8 seconds and turns into the next.
5. Start each scene on the first word of its sentence, or up to half a second before. Never cut mid-sentence.
6. Inside a scene, bring small details in on the words they show (an item, a tag, a tick). Earlier details stay.
7. Choose one or two recurring objects or characters in the first scene and bring them back changed. Callbacks beat new pictures.
8. Build up the same picture where you can (add to it, move the camera across it) instead of replacing it.
9. Energy: about 80 percent still, drifting or gentle. Allow one big move in the whole clip, on the reveal, for 1 to 2 seconds, then settle and hold.
10. Numbers sit on a scale (gauge, bar, table, timeline) and hold long enough to read. Contrasts are a still split or the same layout twice.
11. Feelings get a quiet image, or one of the cuts back to the speaker; never effects.
12. On-screen text names, labels or quotes; it never repeats the caption. Five words or fewer per label.
13. End every scene by settling or thinning out, or by turning into the next scene. No exit effects.
14. The style sets the look. These rules set when, how long and how calmly. If the style's own motion rules ask for more energy than this, use less.

TECH: one HTML file, one GSAP 3 timeline created paused as window.__timelines.main, duration = the scene's length, transforms and opacity only.

## Sample frames
- Frame 1: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-NHS7QS/f1-496c77d1.webp
- Frame 2: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-NHS7QS/f2-62b51b92.webp
- Frame 3: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-NHS7QS/f3-a5fb87ba.webp
- Frame 4: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-NHS7QS/f4-5bc4aca9.webp

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