bitmax/art/06_hardware-props/hw-the-beige-keyboard-and-ball-mouse.json
monster feeadcbd76 art: add The Art of Boring Software — concept-art prompt library
101 advanced JSON image-generation prompts (Gemini 2.5 Flash / 'Nano Banana') for the ENTROPY OS concept-art book, organized by function:
- 00_art-direction: the visual canon (_ART_DIRECTION.md), JSON _TEMPLATE.json, worked _EXAMPLE.json
- 01_key-art (9), 02_characters (16), 03_environments (14), 04_ui-menus (12),
  05_key-moments (16), 06_hardware-props (12), 07_branding-ephemera (12), 08_motifs (10)

Every prompt is a self-contained Nano-Banana-ready paragraph plus structured fields (aspect ratio,
master-palette hexes, lighting, composition, text_in_image, period-anachronism avoid list, model
tips). One visual language: beige-and-grey dominant, one accent glow per image, teal reserved for the
ominous, locked to 1998-99. art/README.md indexes all 101.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 16:45:31 +10:00

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{
"id": "hw-beige-keyboard-ball-mouse-001",
"title": "The Beige Keyboard and Ball Mouse — The Worn Interface (Product Shot)",
"pertains_to": {
"game": "ENTROPY OS (the Registered Owner, the interface)",
"lore_chapter": "Book V — The Beige Pages; the Registered Owner",
"category": "hardware-props",
"type": "product photography"
},
"aspect_ratio": "3:2",
"resolution_hint": "full-bleed, print quality, ~2048px long edge, degraded catalog scan",
"prompt": "Product photograph of the worn interface between the Registered Owner and the machine: a beige mechanical keyboard and a beige ball mouse, photographed top-down-three-quarter on a dark desk under a cool fluorescent wash. The full-travel keyboard is Administrative Beige (#c0c0c0) gone deeply nicotine-yellow and unevenly grimy, the most-used keys — spacebar, Enter, arrow keys, the 'E' and 'A' — worn shiny and legend-faded from years of fingers, the rest still stencilled. Crumbs and grey dust pack the gaps between keycaps; a coiled beige cable trails off into shadow. To the side sits a fat two-button ball mouse, its underside hint of a roller-ball, its top buttons greasy and worn pale, a long thin cable curling away. A brown coffee ring stains the desk beneath one corner of the keyboard, half-overlapping a curled yellow sticky-note that reads in ballpoint 'PASSWORD IS THE OLD PASSWORD'. The only colored accent is a faint amber spill (#ffb000) from an off-frame CRT, warming the worn keycaps and the rim of the coffee ring. Painterly catalog-realism, matte filmic finish, degraded-scan grain, scanlines, slight chromatic aberration, dust motes in the light. Beige and grey dominate; amber is the lone whisper. Mood: intimate exhaustion, the residue of a human at a machine — the keyboard as a worn confessional, photographed with quiet sympathy.",
"art_direction": {
"style": "1999 peripheral product photography, painterly catalog-realism, intimate-exhaustion",
"medium": "painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, degraded-scan grain and scanlines",
"palette": ["#c0c0c0 beige plastic", "#d8cba0 nicotine yellowing", "#808080 grimy dust", "#ffb000 amber CRT spill", "#0b0b0b dark desk", "#6b4a2a coffee-ring brown"],
"lighting": "cool fluorescent wash from above + faint amber CRT spill; deep shadow at the edges; dust in the light",
"composition": "top-down three-quarter of keyboard with ball mouse beside it, coiled cables trailing off, coffee ring and sticky-note in frame",
"camera_lens": "50mm, angled top-down, shallow falloff to shadow",
"mood": "intimate exhaustion, human residue; the keyboard as a worn confessional"
},
"key_details": [
"full-travel beige mechanical keyboard, deeply nicotine-yellowed and unevenly grimy",
"most-used keys (space, Enter, arrows, E, A) worn shiny with faded legends",
"crumbs and grey dust packed between keycaps; coiled beige cable into shadow",
"fat two-button beige ball mouse with greasy worn buttons and a roller-ball underside",
"brown coffee ring on the desk; curled yellow sticky-note reading 'PASSWORD IS THE OLD PASSWORD'",
"faint amber CRT spill as the only accent; degraded-scan grain"
],
"text_in_image": "PASSWORD IS THE OLD PASSWORD",
"avoid": [
"smartphones", "modern flat/material UI", "flat-panel widescreen monitors", "USB-C", "OLED",
"bright saturated cartoon colors", "glossy 3D render look", "neon cyberpunk cliché", "mascots",
"rarity gems", "modern minimalism", "RGB gamer lighting", "emoji", "contemporary fashion or cars",
"optical/laser mouse", "wireless peripherals", "modern low-profile chiclet keys", "pristine clean plastic"
],
"references": [
"yellowed beige mechanical keyboards and two-button ball mice of the late 1990s",
"worn shiny keycaps with faded legends",
"coffee rings and curled sticky-notes on a grimy desk",
"fluorescent-dystopia restraint, not neon"
],
"nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 3:2. Render the sticky-note text 'PASSWORD IS THE OLD PASSWORD' crisply. Emphasize worn shiny keys and nicotine yellowing. Keep ONE accent: faint amber CRT spill; degrade the scan.",
"filename": "hw-the-beige-keyboard-and-ball-mouse.json"
}