# Visual-Genre Taxonomy

The named-genre catalog distilled from the reference corpus (a tour through a large
generative visual-style library, plus a set of saved angelcore/hyperpop reels). Each
name is effectively a **complete prompt-and-grade preset**: picking one inherits its
palette, texture, lighting, and subject matter as a unit.

Use this as a picker. Choose **one primary** genre and **at most one accent**. The main
`SKILL.md` groups these into families and maps them to the current music-video project.

## Families and members

### Ethereal / divine — *weightless, holy, glowing, soft*
- **spiritualism** — religious iconography, halos, god-rays, devotional
- **glacial folk** — cold blue + bone white, crystalline, minimal, calm
- **beacons** — single light source in darkness, signal, hope
- **zen core** — empty space, stillness, balance, muted
- **fairy tale** — storybook, illustrated, soft enchantment
- **cozy blanket** — warm, tactile, soft-focus comfort

### Hyperpop / Y2K-cyber — *glossy, chrome, neon, kawaii-cyber*
- **cyberdelia** — psychedelic cyber, saturated, melting digital
- **acid house** — rave graphics, smileys, high-saturation acid color
- **acid nora** — acid-toned painterly, warped
- **neo aggressano** — aggressive maximal hyperpop, clashing color
- **new liquid** — wet chrome, liquid metal, glossy reflection
- **8-bit / pixel** — retro game pixels, dithered, lo-fi digital

### Dark / occult — *high-contrast, ominous, grain*
- **dark academia** — moody scholarly, sepia, candlelit, gothic
- **smoke nostalgia** — hazy, smoky, faded memory
- **communist core** — red star, propaganda poster, bold red/black
- **abstract tech** — schematic, cold, technical abstraction
- **microzoathic** — strange organic-dark microscopic forms

### Retro / print — *flat, graphic, halftone, nostalgic*
- **retro surfers** — 60s–70s surf, sun-faded, beachy
- **art deco** — geometric gold, 1920s elegance, symmetry
- **adventure pulp** — pulp comic covers, dramatic, vintage
- **classic advertising** — mid-century ad illustration
- **magazine collage** — cut-paper, editorial collage, layered
- **bumper stickers** — sticker-bomb, kitsch, layered decals
- **retro print / riso** — limited-palette print, halftone, misregistration
- **neo lisboa** — tiled, azulejo-inspired, Mediterranean print
- **factory pomo** — postmodern industrial graphic
- **2026 austurbano** — near-future urban editorial

### Organic / textural — *tactile, macro, woven, wet*
- **microbiology core** — cells, micro-organic, petri textures
- **weaving patterns** — woven fiber, textile, interlace
- **fruitage retro** — fruit/produce, saturated, glossy still-life
- **pacific punk wave** — wet, oceanic, washed graphic
- **shape design** — bold flat shapes, Bauhaus-ish forms
- **colour fusion** — blended gradients, color-field

### Systemic / data — *gridded, generative, schematic*
- **numbers** — numeric typography, ledgers, counting
- **mazes** — labyrinth, path, grid puzzle
- **code web** — node graphs, network, connections
- **heatmap** — thermal color mapping, data gradients
- **the builds** — constructed/blueprint, architectural systems
- **multilayer** — stacked transparent layers, depth
- **scrapbooking** — assembled keepsakes, layered ephemera

### Cultural / kitsch — *loud, specific, referential*
- **catholic kitsch** — devotional kitsch, gilded saints
- **mexendero / megadero / cubanista** — Latin-American vernacular graphic
- **asian chic / asian store** — East-Asian retail/pop vernacular
- **battle of culture** — clashing cultural motifs
- **premium brands** — luxury packaging, refined commercial
- **pro collectibles** — trading-card / collectible framing
- **diaper design / suburbia / ivy league / sharp preppy** — Americana suburban/preppy
- **carnival difference** — festival, maximal celebration
- **men x soft club / faces** — portrait-forward, soft club
- **gomu / proteum aero / ice core / visual hex / vidcoms / anti-ai / photo-first** — misc presets observed

> The exact spelling/membership of some preset names is transcribed from low-resolution
> screen frames and may vary slightly from the source app's labels. The **families** are the
> durable, reusable layer; treat individual names as inspiration tags, not canonical IDs.

## How to use a genre as a preset

1. Pick the genre that matches the section's emotional job (see the shot plan in `SKILL.md`).
2. Translate it into a fal.ai prompt by combining: *its palette + its texture + its subject*,
   then append the project's global suffix (`9:16, cinematic, film grain, volumetric light, no text`).
3. Keep one accent color; render 6–10; keep 2–3.
4. Never mix more than primary + one accent across a single section, or the edit loses coherence.
