code-printlisted

# code-print One sheet, one or two plates, one focus, one area of air. This tool produces **printed matter drawn in code**: vector, exportable to PDF, type that never warps, and the same output from the same input. Its opposite is not "a nice picture" - it is *rolling the dice with an image model*. Image generation draws skin and brushwork; it cannot place a line of type correctly. This draws no skin, but the type is always right and the dimensions are always print-grade. ## What this cuts, and what it does not **Comes here:** pieces whose subject is type, geometry, object silhouettes, diagrams, pattern, or repeated elements. Also pieces that contain a photograph *used as one halftone block of colour*. **Does not come here:** pieces whose subject must be photographic - skin, hair, real light, painted brushwork. Use an image model for that. **Mixed jobs:** get the photographic layer from an image model as one image, then bring it back here and use it **as a plate** - screened to halftone, flattened to one ink, placed in the layout. Type and layout are always drawn in code. ## Work card - eight steps, each with a touchpoint Do not move to the next step without the touchpoint for the current one. 1. **Look at the source, write three columns.** What is there / what is fixed (change it and the thing dies) / what is *unexpected* - each pointing at something specific (who is in front, what is largest, what is loudest). Write them into the build script's docstring. **No unex