Blind-Deboss Notebook

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“Design a hardcover A5 notebook (148×210mm) as TWO artboards — (1) the front COVER, (2) the printed ENDPAPER — for an invented generic brand (invent a short plausible wordmark like 'FOLIO & CO.' — never a real company). The one idea: a BLIND DEBOSS cover — no ink, the mark is pressed into a coloured cover cloth, so it must read as tone-on-tone relief, never as a printed logo. Palette: ONE rich cover-cloth ground swatch 'cloth' cmyk[78,42,52,32] (deep muted teal-green), TWO tints of it to FAKE the relief — 'cloth-hi' cmyk[70,34,44,22] (lighter highlight face) and 'cloth-lo' cmyk[84,50,60,44] (darker shadow) — and one 'cream' cmyk[4,6,14,0] used ONLY on the endpaper. ARTBOARD 1 — Cover ('cloth' background edge-to-edge, respect 3mm bleed): a lockup in the UPPER THIRD, centred with slight tension — a monogram (1-2 letters) then the wordmark below. Fake the deboss for EACH text element by layering a 'cloth-lo' SHADOW copy offset by (+0.35mm x, +0.35mm y) BEHIND an identical 'cloth-hi' FACE copy (same string/size/position bar the offset); group each as 'Debossed monogram' / 'Debossed wordmark'. Add a debossed baseline rule (a 'cloth-hi' hairline with its 'cloth-lo' shadow) under the wordmark and a small 'EST. 2018 · RULED · 192 PP' micro line low on the cover in 'cloth-hi'. Keep it quiet, tone-on-tone, generous whitespace — the relief is the only event. ARTBOARD 2 — Endpaper ('cream' background): the inside surprise — ONE oversized FILLED monogram (the same letter, ~340pt) in 'cloth' at LOW opacity (~0.14) as a watermark, positioned OFF-CENTRE and deliberately CROPPED by the trim; over it a small centred wordmark, a hairline 'cloth' rule, and a tiny 'THIS BOOK BELONGS TO ______' owner line. Restrained and elegant. Author incrementally — cover skeleton first, validate --compile, then Edit in the endpaper, validate again. Named Fabric groups; a specific name on every element. Both boards respect the 3mm bleed on edge colour.”