hard-edge

Feeling word · 65 styles

Boundary between colour fields untransitioned. Edge sharp to the pixel, adjacent colours unmixed; mid arousal. Of hard-edge painting, flat colour blocks.

Opposites

• diffusion

Styles

• Propaganda
• Purism
• Archaic Greek Sculpture
• Memphis Design
• Neo-Brutalism
• WPA Poster
• Flat Illustration
• Low Poly
• Voxel Art
• Fashion Editorial
• Toon-Shaded 3D
• Cel Animation Cel
• 8-Bit Pixel
• Low-Poly
• Hypercasual Flat
• Dark Toon Rogue
• PSX Low-Poly
• Paper Cut-Out
• Industrial Hardcore
• Glass Refraction
• Cel-Shaded Toon
• Monochrome Handheld
• Endless Runner
• Shadow Puppetry
• Handheld Horror
• Snowfield Runner
• Midnight 8-Bit
• Ruin Voxel
• Terrazzo Low-Poly
• Neon Cel
• Weathered Cel-Shaded
• Gore PSX
• Jelly Hypercasual
• Kouros Statue
• Silkscreened Civic Poster
• Memphis Record Sleeve
• Daylight Street Editorial
• Candy 8-Bit
• Handheld Fairytale
• Toy Toon 3D
• Halftone Cel
• Terracotta Low-Poly
• Voxel Garden
• Paper Hypercasual
• Neon Dungeon Rogue
• Stylized PBR
• Textured Low-Poly
• PS2-Era Render
• Portrait Mobile
• 1-Bit Monochrome
• Raytraced Voxel
• Billboard 2.5D
• Duotone Render
• Vector Arcade
• Rhythm Lane Neon
• Fighting Game Versus
• Porcelain Glaze PBR
• Yellow-Fog PS2 RPG
• Merge Board Portrait
• Crimson 1-Bit
• Taiko Lantern Rhythm
• Ink-Line Fighting
• Pixel UI
• African Textile
• Handheld Pixel UI

Co-occurs with

• four-shade green
• scrolling ground
• shadow puppet
• blocky highlight
• light baking
• view distance
• vertical framing
• binary threshold
• global illumination
• billboarding
• two-ink printing
• hit line

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