[ 05:14:22 ] ILLUSTRATION SYSTEM · LITERAL LABS REGISTERED · ® LL-DS-ILL
Illustration,
flat and precise.
® LL-DS SERIAL · 7536U-141-783 · CYCLE 0421 OP·2 V1.0
NO GRADIENTS · NO DROP SHADOWS · NO REALISM BRAND PALETTE ONLY · DOTS FOOTER MOTIF REF: LL-DS-ILL
Illustration — the Literal language
We draw simplifications of what machines do. Technical elevations, cross-sections, schematic plans, ticker panels, explainers of LBNs. Simple lines. Monospace labels. Never a smiling laptop.
Do · don't
DO
- Draw what the machine does. Plan views, cross-sections, waveforms, schematic networks. Things that could exist on engineering paper.
- One-bit line with monospace labels. Keep strokes honest — 1.2 to 1.6 px, no anti-aliased hero lines.
- Let the grid show. Faint dot- or line-grids under diagrams reinforce the “technical drawing” read.
- Use orange as a single highlight. One path, one node, one stat per illustration — never a full colour palette.
DON'T
- Reuse the retired blue-and-navy set. Battery-use, disk-size, benchmark-cards and their siblings are gone. Don’t resurrect them, even at thumbnail scale.
- No cartoon metaphors. No smiling laptops, no cute robots, no 3-D cylinders labelled “AI”.
- No gradients, no drop shadows, no glow. If it wouldn’t print in two inks, it doesn’t belong here.
- No generic stock vectors. Every illustration gets drawn for its subject.