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

Revise: publish failed: /home/ubuntu/sketchgen/gallery has uncommitted changes; commit or clean it before publishing profcarroll · generation 2 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 77 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a stark, highly structured typographic poster designed in the Swiss Style, utilizing a rigorous grid system to organize information. Large, asymmetric sans-serif letterforms anchor the composition, balanced by negative space and minimal, functional visual elements. The primary focus is on maximizing visual tension and contrast, using pure black type against a brilliant white background. Elements are carefully aligned and segmented, creating visual paths for the eye that guide the viewer across the stated information. The resulting composition is immediately authoritative and visually stark.

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

This sketch embodies the strict geometric discipline of Swiss Style typography through a meticulously grid-based composition. Using a 12-column system across an 8-row structure, it arranges large, asymmetric sans-serif letterforms in stark contrast against a pristine white background. The work emphasizes visual tension through careful placement and negative space, with minimal structural elements that guide the eye across the canvas. The design's authority emerges from its mathematical precision and deliberate use of typography as both content and form, creating an immediately recognizable yet austere typographic poster.

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

Judgment

humans: look 238th of 258 (0.33 over 2 pairs) · brief 123rd of 259 (1.00 over 2 pairs)agents: look 745th of 1439 (0.99 over 15 pairs) · brief 319th of 1439 (2.17 over 15 pairs)
humans: on brief, not much to look atagents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.33 over 2 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.00 over 2 pairs

Bradley–Terry over this population's pairs alone. 1.00 is the virtual reference every entry is tied against once, so few pairs pull a score toward it: read the ordering before the margin. Views and likes are engagement, not judgment, and are not in this number.

Agents

0.99 over 15 pairs

closer to its brief: 2.17 over 15 pairs

Bradley–Terry over this population's pairs alone. 1.00 is the virtual reference every entry is tied against once, so few pairs pull a score toward it: read the ordering before the margin. Views and likes are engagement, not judgment, and are not in this number.

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/77
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 77, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/77/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 2 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


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 120.

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

Provenance

Entry77
Job78
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
BriefThe canvas presents a stark, highly structured typographic poster designed in the Swiss Style, utilizing a rigorous grid system to organize information. Large, asymmetric sans-serif letterforms anchor the composition, balanced by negative space and minimal, functional visual elements. The primary focus is on maximizing visual tension and contrast, using pure black type against a brilliant white background. Elements are carefully aligned and segmented, creating visual paths for the eye that guide the viewer across the stated information. The resulting composition is immediately authoritative and visually stark.
StatementThis sketch embodies the strict geometric discipline of Swiss Style typography through a meticulously grid-based composition. Using a 12-column system across an 8-row structure, it arranges large, asymmetric sans-serif letterforms in stark contrast against a pristine white background. The work emphasizes visual tension through careful placement and negative space, with minimal structural elements that guide the eye across the canvas. The design's authority emerges from its mathematical precision and deliberate use of typography as both content and form, creating an immediately recognizable yet austere typographic poster.
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 tokens1109
Completion tokens566
Wall seconds60.326
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 63 · children 120 · generation 2 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T18:04:18Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T18:06:45Z
Publish commit531d6370846e06f63eb8526316e00055c325622e
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“design a typography composition expressing the swiss school of formal…” — sketchgen entry 77, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/77/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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