# Article infographics

Use this route for knowledge cards, information-rich article summaries, processes, timelines, comparisons, evidence pages, checklists, frameworks, and data stories.

## Layout references

Use these only for information architecture:

- `infographic-layout/layout_ref_01_annotated_evidence.png`
- `infographic-layout/layout_ref_02_timeline_dashboard.png`
- `infographic-layout/layout_ref_03_data_story.png`

Borrow hierarchy, annotated evidence, numbered steps, timelines, comparison structures, compact charts, arrows, and callouts. Do not copy their text, data, logos, screenshots, character designs, or rendering texture.

## Choose the page count

Count distinct thesis, process, timeline, comparison, case cluster, data story, checklist, framework, and conclusion modules. Target four to six readable modules per page:

- 1–5 modules: 1 page
- 6–10: 2 pages
- 11–15: 3 pages
- 16–20: 4 pages
- 21–30: 5–6 pages
- more than 30: at most 8 pages; merge or omit repetition

Increase page count instead of shrinking text or overloading the layout.

## Plan each page

Give each page one communication job. Choose:

- overview: thesis plus 3–6 concept groups
- process: numbered start-to-finish path
- timeline: chronological rail with outcomes
- comparison: matched columns and criteria
- data story: one primary chart plus exact callouts
- evidence: central artifact or fact cluster with annotations
- checklist: grouped actions and warnings
- conclusion: distilled takeaway and one expressive IP scene

Prepare the exact title, subtitle, information blocks in reading order, diagram rules, IP placement, and locked text manifest.

## Page system

- Use exact 3:4 portrait.
- Use clean white or very lightly warm-white with no paper grain.
- Establish a clear top-to-bottom reading path.
- Use one title, one short subtitle, and compact information blocks.
- Render title and major headings with narrow fine-wax-crayon or colored-pencil strokes: slight dry gaps, uneven pressure, and mild baseline drift.
- Render body copy as legible loose black marker handwriting, not a digital font.
- Use individually hand-drawn boxes, arrows, underlines, circles, and callouts with wobbly corners, small overshoots, occasional openings, and variable line weight.
- Keep illustrations, charts, and icons in the Mengli pen-doodle style with clean flat colors and slight selected-edge misregistration.
- Use three to five fresh accent colors plus neutral black; do not fade the palette.
- Leave breathing room between modules.

## Integrate the IP

Use one primary mini appearance or up to three small appearances per page. Make each pose explain something: point, compare, inspect, walk a timeline, demonstrate, warn, or celebrate. The IP normally occupies 8–18% and stays secondary to the information.

Contextual outfits are allowed only when the accepted face, hair, proportions, signature palette, and identifying accessories remain fixed.

## Lock facts and text

Copy every required title, date, quantity, unit, name, label, and source note exactly. Do not ask the model to summarize inside the image. Summarize long text outside the image first, then lock the shortened version. Never invent data, quotes, brands, or citations.

## Prompt structure

```text
Create one exact 3:4 portrait article infographic.

IDENTITY LOCK:
[accepted anchor fidelity lock]

PAGE GOAL AND LAYOUT:
[one job; overview/process/timeline/comparison/data/evidence/checklist/conclusion]

READING ORDER AND BLOCKS:
[ordered information modules and their visual forms]

DATA OR DIAGRAM RULES:
[exact values, units, sequence, axes, relationships, or NONE]

RENDER THIS TEXT EXACTLY, WITH NO EXTRA WORDS:
[locked text manifest]

IP PLACEMENT:
[location, action, expression, contextual outfit, props], occupying 8–18%.

STYLE:
Mengli mini pen-doodle infographic on clean white; fine colored-pencil headings; legible loose marker body copy; wobbly imperfect boxes and arrows; clean flat normally saturated colors with slight selected-edge misregistration.

No invented text or facts, logos, screenshots, watermarks, dense paragraphs, paper grain, identical digital cards, glossy rendering, or identity drift.
```

Generate one page at a time.

## Validate

Check factual coverage, reading order, exact text, truthful chart scale, identity, 3:4 ratio, information density, title texture, handwritten body text, varied hand-drawn structures, clean saturation, and absence of invented content. Regenerate a page when critical text or data is wrong; keep accepted pages.