YUV.AI Cover System v2 — "Editorial Poster" (reverse-engineered style DNA)
Source DNA: SHELLY sports-editorial posters (basketball/tennis/football) + cinematic Joker teaching covers. 12 Midjourney describes analyzed. This spec is the law for every cover.
The 7 signature ingredients (what makes the style)
- Giant condensed display type, slightly italic — fills 60–80% of frame width, 1–2 stacked lines. Flat fill, no gradient on letters. EN: Anton + skewX(-8°). HE: Rubik 900 + skewX(-6°).
- Subject INTERLEAVED with the type — headline sits BEHIND the body but IN FRONT of the background; a limb/prop overlaps letters. Built from photo + its cutout (photo → text → cutout).
- Ticker strips — small bold caps repeated with ✦ separators ("ALL DAY ✦ EVERY PLAY ✦ NO LIMITS") at the top edge and/or floating above the headline. Letter-spaced, white or accent.
- Keyword stack — 3–4 power words, right-aligned column, small condensed caps + 2–3 thin line icons (star / globe / target) beneath. Bottom-right corner.
- Hero camera angle — ultra-low angle full body (sports) or symmetric close-up / high-angle (cinema). Subject larger-than-life, action frozen mid-move.
- Depth-of-field props — one foreground element blurred/huge (ball, shoe, dirt spray) that crosses the type. This is the dopamine trick — never skip it when the photo allows.
- One loud accent against one saturated field — neon yellow
#E9FF3Don vivid blue sky (HYPE) or pure white type on dark cinematic duotone (CINEMA). Never two accents at once.
Yuval's two series (uniform grid, two moods)
| Series | Use for | Ground | Type color | Light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HYPE | tools, launches, hot takes, news | vivid gradient sky / bright location | neon yellow #E9FF3D |
sunny, saturated, rim-lit |
| CINEMA | tutorials, concepts, "film school"-style series | dark photo, pink/cyan split-light duotone (the Neon-Phoenix version of Joker's red/green) | white #FFFFFF |
dramatic, moody |
Constant on EVERY cover: chip top-left (series tag, mono pill) · phoenix mark top-right ·
@yuval_770 · YUV.AI bottom-center · safe zone 1080×1920 with key content in y 285–1635 (3:4 crop).
Type rules
- Headline ≤2 words per line, ≤2 lines. Auto-size to fill width minus 40px margins; tracking -1%.
- Line 1 higher (over chest/head), line 2 lower (crossed by legs/prop). One word may flip color.
- Ticker: 11–13px-equivalent at 1080w → 26–30px, weight 800, letter-spacing 4px, ✦ separators.
- Stack: 34–40px condensed caps, right-aligned, accent color, 4 words max.
Photo rules
- Subject sharp, background graphic and simple (sky, court, fog — not a busy room).
- Cutout gets 1–2px rim light feel via drop-shadow in scene color; never a hard white sticker edge.
- CINEMA duotone: desaturate slightly, pink glow from one side, cyan from the other, crushed blacks.
Anti-rules (instant style-breakers)
- No drop-shadowed rounded "YouTube sticker" text. No more than 2 type colors. No busy screenshot backgrounds behind the giant type. No centered-everything — the grid energy comes from diagonal tension between type blocks and the figure. Subject must never be fully behind ALL text (face stays clear).