Step Season Posters Showcase Dynamic Action with Bold Duotone Channels

{
  "style_name": "Step Season",
  "style_slug": "stepped-mask-duotone-event-poster",
  "canvas": "9:16 tall poster, one flat saturated colour field edge to edge, no texture",
  "color": {
    "pairs": [
      "cobalt #0A3FD4 + red #E8342A",
      "turquoise #1ECFC4 + orange #E85A22",
      "acid yellow #E8F32B + violet #6B4FD8",
      "warm orange field + deep blue hot colour"
    ],
    "rule": "TWO colours per poster — the field tints the whole photograph as a duotone, the hot colour appears only inside the stepped channel; black for type; white for the channel itself. No third hue, no gradient, no grain.",
    "set_rule": "across a set of four, give each poster a distinct colour family — never two blues"
  },
  "step_system": {
    "form": "a white channel with a hard stepped edge, like pixel stairs, running vertically through the frame and bleeding off top and bottom",
    "module": "step rise and run are ONE fixed unit across the whole set — roughly 1/16 of the poster width; never resize per poster",
    "count_rule": "one channel by default; split into two stepped blocks only when the craft has two simultaneous points of impact (cymbal and snare), one block per point",
    "hot_rule": "whatever falls inside the channel switches to the hot colour — and the channel must be positioned so it lands on the part of the body or tool doing the work right now"
  },
  "typography": {
    "headline": "3–4 words in a clean neo-grotesque, sentence case — capital first letter only, everything else lowercase; black; 2–3 lines; top of frame",
    "dates": "day numbers stacked vertically as large black numerals, month and year in smaller caps beneath; ONE fixed position across the set — right side, aligned to the headline's vertical axis",
    "footer": "one line of small bold caps bottom-left: the event name, a slash, the format (OPEN PRACTICE / PROCESS LIVE / LIVE ROOMS / OPEN SESSIONS)"
  },
  "photography": {
    "subject": "one practitioner at the peak of an action — mid-dive, mid-stride, mid-gather, mid-strike; never posed, never facing the lens",
    "setting": "the real venue stays visible and duotoned — pool tiles and board, track lanes and floodlights, studio bench and furnace, drum kit and cymbals",
    "crop": "full body where the action needs it, waist-up where the tool does"
  },
  "design_rules": [
    "headlines follow one grammar: [noun] in [state] — Bodies in blue, Matter in motion, Sound in the making",
    "no two posters in a set may repeat a word",
    "the channel is the identity — keep it geometric, never soft or torn",
    "everything printed sits on the flat field; nothing overlaps the photograph except the channel"
  ],
  "swap_variables": {
    "discipline": "diving / sprinting / glassblowing / percussion",
    "headline": "Bodies in blue / City in stride / Matter in motion / Sound in the making",
    "colour_pair": "cobalt+red / warm orange+blue / turquoise+orange / acid yellow+violet",
    "hot_zone": "torso entering the water / driving leg / molten gather on the pipe / cymbal and snare",
    "footer": "AQUATIC MOTION · OPEN PRACTICE / URBAN TRACK MEET · OPEN SESSIONS / GLASS STUDIO DAYS · PROCESS LIVE / PERCUSSION WEEKEND · LIVE ROOMS"
  }
}