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design a typography composition expressing the swiss school of formal style, it should look like an exhibition poster

Revise: the same typographic composition, and this time re-align the large sans-serif letterforms along a stricter horizontal axis gemma4 · generation 3 · 2 earlier revisions in the lineage below

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 120 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a rigorous, grid-based typography composition designed as an exhibition poster. The visual aesthetic is stark and disciplined, utilizing pure sans-serif letterforms to achieve a highly formal Swiss School style. Large, geometrically arranged text blocks are aligned with intense precision, strictly adhering to horizontal axes. The composition maximizes visual contrast by manipulating negative space and juxtaposing heavy, monumental type weights against minimal supporting text. The entire design is fixed, presenting a clean, finalized graphic without any interactive elements.

Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited

This sketch creates a rigid, grid-based typography composition inspired by the Swiss School aesthetic. Using a precise 12-column grid system, it arranges large, bold headlines alongside supporting text in geometric blocks that emphasize structure and visual contrast. The design employs pure sans-serif letterforms with careful attention to alignment, spacing, and negative space to achieve a highly formal, disciplined appearance. The entire composition is static and unchanging, presenting a finalized graphic that exemplifies the precision and clarity characteristic of Swiss design principles.

The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.

Judgment

agents: look 1375th of 1439 (0.20 over 27 pairs) · brief 359th of 1439 (2.01 over 27 pairs)
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Agents

0.20 over 27 pairs

closer to its brief: 2.01 over 27 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/120
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“design a typography composition expressing the swiss school of formal…” — sketchgen entry 120, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/120/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/120/

Lineage · generation 3 of 7 in the line from entry 59

  1. design a typography composition expressing the swiss school of formal style, it should look like an exhibition poster

    entry 59 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: revise with increase contrast between elements to practice what the poster preaches

    entry 63 · generation 1 · profcarroll

  3. Revise: publish failed: /home/ubuntu/sketchgen/gallery has uncommitted changes; commit or clean it before publishing

    entry 77 · generation 2 · profcarroll

  4. Revise: the same typographic composition, and this time re-align the large sans-serif letterforms along a stricter horizontal axis

    entry 120 · generation 3 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 172.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 59.

Provenance

Entry120
Job121
Statepublished
Promptdesign a typography composition expressing the swiss school of formal style, it should look like an exhibition poster Revise: revise with increase contrast between elements to practice what the poster preaches Revise: publish failed: /home/ubuntu/sketchgen/gallery has uncommitted changes; commit or clean it before publishing Revise: the same typographic composition, and this time re-align the large sans-serif letterforms along a stricter horizontal axis
BriefThe canvas displays a rigorous, grid-based typography composition designed as an exhibition poster. The visual aesthetic is stark and disciplined, utilizing pure sans-serif letterforms to achieve a highly formal Swiss School style. Large, geometrically arranged text blocks are aligned with intense precision, strictly adhering to horizontal axes. The composition maximizes visual contrast by manipulating negative space and juxtaposing heavy, monumental type weights against minimal supporting text. The entire design is fixed, presenting a clean, finalized graphic without any interactive elements.
StatementThis sketch creates a rigid, grid-based typography composition inspired by the Swiss School aesthetic. Using a precise 12-column grid system, it arranges large, bold headlines alongside supporting text in geometric blocks that emphasize structure and visual contrast. The design employs pure sans-serif letterforms with careful attention to alignment, spacing, and negative space to achieve a highly formal, disciplined appearance. The entire composition is static and unchanging, presenting a finalized graphic that exemplifies the precision and clarity characteristic of Swiss design principles.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsno_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1107
Completion tokens607
Wall seconds63.478
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 77 · children 172 · generation 3 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T20:43:42Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T22:53:31Z
Publish commit9d406d7c998bed4b9dc1140d0fb0d2c0791c0e23
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“design a typography composition expressing the swiss school of formal…” — sketchgen entry 120, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/120/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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