# Visual style: sketch-notes

Warm hand-drawn sketchnote — soft paper field, black ink doodle line work, gentle pastel blocks. The most approachable style, friendly over precise. For education, training, onboarding, science communication, knowledge content.

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## 1. Shape & decoration

- Shape language: rounded shapes drawn with a slight wobble; pastel block fills that slightly overshoot their outlines (hand-painted feel); simple cartoon icons. Draw that wobble as a `<path>` with non-aligned points — a `<rect rx>` is not wobble.
- Composition geometry: a wavy-arrow journey path structuring the whole page; a radial mind-map around a central doodle; a hand-drawn banner ribbon carrying the title; numbered circles hopping along a dotted route; one cloud frame around the idea that matters.
- Decoration: small doodles — stars, sparkles, dots, underlines — sprinkled sparingly for warmth; wavy hand-drawn arrows connecting ideas with short inline labels.
- Whitespace: airy and well-organized; generous gaps between elements keep it friendly, never dense.

## 2. Typography character

- Friendly hand-lettered titles; clear humanist body. Warmth and legibility over corporate severity.

> Families are chosen at confirmation `g`; this style asks for a warm hand-lettered / humanist *character*.

## 3. Using the deck's colors

- Warm, soft paper field; the deck's colors rendered as gentle pastel tints inside the blocks rather than full saturation; one accent reserved for a key arrow or emphasis.
- Generous but gentle — soft tints, never high-chroma or rainbow.

> HEX values come from confirmation `e`; this style only governs the soft-pastel, warm-field discipline — it names no colors.

## 4. Texture / elevation

- Flat 2D — sketchnote is intentionally flat. Optional subtle paper grain for warmth; no drop shadows.

## 5. Paired image-rendering

`sketch-notes` — cream-paper hand-drawn imagery with soft pastel fills, sharing the friendly note aesthetic.

## 6. Illustration propensity

**core** — doodle spots and hand-drawn marks are intrinsic here, not optional garnish; with no user steer, default to recommending a coherent spot-illustration family (the decoration this style is built on). This sets the default *lean* only: heaviness and placement stay Strategist judgment, an explicit user request wins either way, and `image_usage: none` writes no illustration rows.
