Oriental museum editorial style

Oriental Museum Editorial Style

Overview

Apply a refined Chinese museum-editorial visual profile to process-evolution infographic prompts. Output a multi-page vertical series with a cover, several item pages, and a summary page; preserve the style grammar, but never reuse a fixed picture template across topics.

Core Rule

Inherit the aesthetic grammar, not the subject matter.

Use this skill together with process-evolution-infographic when the user wants this style for a progression, evolution, history, timeline, morphology, or series-poster prompt.

This skill overrides the single-poster default of process-evolution-infographic: produce a series prompt, not one combined infographic, unless the user explicitly asks for a single page.

Do not use this skill for ordinary image editing, direct image generation without a prompt request, or Gemini-specific prompt rewriting unless the user explicitly asks for this style in that context.

Stable Grammar

• Multi-page 3:4 vertical series by default, one page per generated image.
• High-end Eastern cultural visual language, museum note, visual atlas, modern editorial design, Song-painting-like negative space.
• Clean light background: rice paper, porcelain white, pale ink wash, exhibition paper, or a topic-specific pale material surface.
• Each page has one main visual taking about 60-70% of the page.
• Text stays short: one title, one time/phase label where useful, and 1-2 concise knowledge sentences per stage.
• Typography feels like a refined exhibition catalogue: elegant Chinese title treatment, restrained modern labels, small archival annotations, quiet numbering.
• Color stays low-saturation and topic-led, with one or two traditional accent colors only when justified.
• Image and text behave like one designed system: exhibit tags, caption strips, fine lead lines, color swatches, small material samples, or margins that belong to the composition.
• Texture is subtle: paper grain, silk, ink wash, porcelain glaze, mineral pigment, wood, bronze patina, film grain, or another topic-specific refined texture.

Must Vary By Topic

• Representative objects, body parts, artifacts, products, architecture, specimens, garments, tools, or diagrams.
• Progression structure: sequence, shelves, plinths, atlas plates, side profiles, sectional layers, folded scroll path, specimen rows, material cards, or another structure that fits the theme.
• Color source: derive palette from the topic's real materials, era, craft, ecology, technology, or cultural setting.
• Symbol system: use only motifs that explain the topic; do not add generic "Chinese" decoration.
• Rendering mode: choose macro close-up, artifact display, line drawing, product photography, natural-history plate, fashion editorial, architectural detail, or technical diagram according to the subject.

Topic Adaptation

When applying the style, explicitly map the theme before writing the prompt:

Theme	Keep the style through	Change into
Beauty, dress, body aesthetics	clean close-ups, refined skin/fabric detail, color swatches	correct body type, era-specific makeup, garments, accessories
Objects, tools, craft	museum plinths, material labels, catalogue lighting	silhouettes, mechanisms, materials, use scenes
Architecture, furniture, interiors	negative space, measured lines, quiet annotations	structure, joinery, spatial sections, period details
Food, tea, fragrance, medicine	visual notes, ingredient/material cards, soft light	vessels, ingredients, steam/smoke/liquid behavior
Nature, plants, animals, geology	atlas layout, specimen discipline, pale ground	morphology, habitat, cross-sections, scientific labels
Technology, products, industry	editorial clarity, spacious layout, restrained labels	modern materials, precision parts, cool neutrals, technical callouts

Prompt Assembly

Always assemble the final prompt in this order:

1. 系列主题
2. 整体规格
3. 整体视觉要求
4. 封面页
5. 条目页 01...NN
6. 总结页
7. 排版规则
8. 负面要求

Do not collapse the series into a single poster. Each page should be a separate 3:4 vertical image. Use 5-10 item pages by default; choose the count from the topic's natural stages unless the user gives a count.

Include this style block inside 整体视觉要求:

风格控制：
采用东方博物馆杂志风：高级东方审美、博物馆视觉笔记、宋画式留白、现代知识型杂志排版。只继承克制、留白、展签、色卡、纸感/材质感和精致图文关系；不得复用固定古风模板。所有主视觉、材料、结构、色彩来源必须随主题变化。

Then add topic-specific lines for:

• Cover visual: one strong representative composite for the whole evolution.
• Item pages: one stage per page, with title, time/phase, main visual, visual elements, and 1-2 sentence explanation.
• Summary page: a concise visual synthesis, such as silhouettes, contours, material/color swatches, lineage marks, or a refined comparison strip.
• Main visual objects for each stage.
• A topic-derived palette, not a fixed beige/brown palette.
• A topic-derived page system, not always a timeline or scroll.
• Negative prompt that blocks cheap collage, PPT timeline, generic chinoiserie, over-decoration, unreadable labels, stock-poster feeling, and irrelevant motifs.

Use this Chinese output skeleton unless the user requests another language:

系列主题：
[主题名]

整体规格：
多页 3:4 竖版系列图，每页一张。
风格统一：[topic-specific style phrase]、东方博物馆杂志风、宋画式留白、现代知识型图录。
不要做成一页合集，不要做成普通PPT时间轴，不要使用与主题无关的通用古风装饰。

整体视觉要求：
[main subject rules]
[topic-specific material/color/lighting rules]
文字短而清楚，每页只保留必要知识点。
风格控制：采用东方博物馆杂志风……所有主视觉、材料、结构、色彩来源必须随主题变化。

封面页：
标题：[主题名]
副标题：[一句话概括演化逻辑]
画面：[覆盖全系列的代表性主视觉]
色彩：[主题来源色彩系统]
气质：高级、干净、克制、有知识图录感。

条目页 01：
标题：[阶段名]
时间：[时间/阶段标签]
画面：[该阶段的一个主视觉]
视觉元素：[2-4个主题相关元素]
说明：[1-2句知识说明]

条目页 02：
[同上，直到自然阶段结束]

总结页：
标题：[总结性标题]
画面：[把全部阶段凝练成一组轮廓、色卡、材质卡、结构线或对比序列]
总结文字：[2-4句总结演化规律，不写长文]

排版规则：
每页只放一个主视觉、一个标题、一段1-2句说明。
主视觉占画面60%-70%，文字不超过画面20%。
页码放在角落，不抢画面。
所有页面保持同一套边距、标题系统、编号系统和色卡/材质卡系统。

负面要求：
不要单页合集，不要廉价拼贴，不要PPT感，不要复杂背景，不要过多文字，不要通用古风符号，不要与主题无关的龙凤祥云印章窗棂，不要高饱和廉价配色，不要塑料质感，不要无法读清的小字。

Guardrails

• Do not make every topic look like Chinese makeup, Song painting, or a tea catalogue.
• Do not force ancient Chinese symbols onto modern, scientific, industrial, or non-Chinese topics.
• Do not use dragon, cloud, seal, fan, bamboo, red stamp, or window lattice motifs unless they directly support the theme.
• Do not default to warm beige/brown. Use light systems when appropriate, but derive exact colors from the subject.
• Do not let the style override factual progression, recognizable stage differences, or clear reading order.

Examples

• 中国眼妆的演变: eye close-ups, makeup color cards, rice paper, rouge, dai blue, pale gold.
• 中国椅子的演变: chair side profiles, joinery details, wood grain, catalog plinths, Ming-style measured lines.
• 茶器的演变: vessel silhouettes, ceramic glaze, tea liquor swatches, kiln labels, museum shelf rhythm.
• 智能手机的演变: device profiles, glass/metal texture, cool gray-white layout, precision labels, no antique motifs.
• 植物叶形的演变: botanical plates, vein diagrams, specimen labels, pale herbarium paper, green-gray mineral accents.

Output

Return the full multi-page series image prompt directly unless the user asks for analysis. Keep visible text in the user's language.