Palette

Every image on this wiki is AI-generated, and a lot of the prose was drafted that way too. The pictures are placeholders — something to look at while we play, not commissioned art and not anybody's portfolio. If a page reads like it was written by a machine, sometimes it was, and telling us is a favour. If anybody wants to replace an image with their own work, it goes straight in.

That's what the palette below is for. Generated images drift, and without a fixed set of colours and a named light source every prompt produces a different campaign.

Touchstone: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. High-contrast neon accents against deep dark backgrounds — electric yellow, bright neon green, cyan blue, and vivid purple/magenta. That's the reference. What follows is our reading of it.

The accents have jobs

Four neon accents with no assignments is a casino. Edgerunners gets away with a loud palette because each colour means something, so give each one a job here and the dominant accent in a scene tells you what kind of scene it is:

Deep dark is the city itself: wet concrete, night, rain, sodium. The background is never black — it's #0b0e13, which is blue-dark, because pure black kills the neon.

Our values are slightly desaturated from the reference on purpose. Fully saturated neon on a dark ground halates — it vibrates, bleeds and becomes unreadable at text sizes — so the reference hexes are for art direction and ours are for screens.

Rules that keep it from becoming noise

• Accents are accents. Borders, labels, a single word, a hover state, one light source in a frame. Never a paragraph of body text, never two accents competing for the same element.
• One dominant accent per scene, plus the dark. If a description or an image is using three, it isn't a palette any more.
• People are lit warm and muted; the city is lit neon and dark. This is the reconciliation with the portrait house style in the person template, which bans neon-cyberpunk lighting on faces. Both rules are correct: faces read better warm, and the contrast between how we light people and how we light places is what stops the campaign looking like a lighting gel sampler. Places get the neon. Faces get a lamp.
• Daylight exists, and it's most of the campaign. Los Angeles is a bright, smoggy, high-contrast city in the afternoon. The neon palette is for night, for interiors, and for anything glowing on its own — not a filter over everything.
• Jobs govern signals, not decoration. The assignments above bind art direction and anything that carries meaning — a hazard marking, a Matrix interface, a contaminated surface. Site chrome is allowed to use a hue because it looks right: the cyan page taglines and the magenta card-hover aren't claiming to be data and appetite, they're furniture.
• All four live in the site stylesheet as --neon through --neon-4. Where the theme uses them:
  • magenta — active nav, link hover, card hover, blockquote rule
  • cyan — links, taglines, focus rings
  • yellow — all GM-copy chrome: the do-not-deploy banner, the boxes around withheld sections, the GM-only and Draft flags. A GM page is a hazard, so the warning colour is the correct one, and it stops magenta doing two jobs at once
  • green — reserved. Nothing in the wiki means the Tide, so it stays for art direction rather than being sprinkled on for completeness

Using it in image prompts

Name the dominant accent and its source rather than the mood. "Sodium and hazard yellow from a checkpoint gantry, everything else wet dark" is directable. "Cyberpunk lighting" is not. And say what the light is coming from — a screen, a sign, a gantry, a cook fire — because a named source is what makes a frame look like a place instead of a colour grade.