/chalk · Chalkboard
Best for: cafés, restaurants, bakeries, schools and tutors: anything with a 'today's special' board.
Viral estimate: 7/10 in general, 8/10 for menus and teaching: feels handmade and local; quieter than the loud styles. A judgement until their own posts in this style come back; /analytics updates it.
The style
- Green slate with chalk dust and a wooden frame; letters get a real chalk texture (SVG turbulence filter) in white, yellow, pink, blue and green chalk.
- Text writes itself in reading direction (right to left for Persian, left to right for Latin); underlines, circles, a star and arrows draw by hand.
- B-roll = boards: an eraser smudge wipes to the next board, a menu with dotted price rows, a box drawn around the product.
- Captions: Lalezar on a dark slate chip, the spoken word in yellow chalk.
Preview it any time without rendering: node tools/style-reel/stills.mjs chalk --sheet.
How to run it
Follow playbook/STYLE-REEL.md end to end with --style chalk. The reference implementation of every scene type in this
style is tools/style-reel/styles/chalk.js (scene ids B1–B6 are the same in every style; the template's demo is the worked
example). Rewrite the scenes for the new content in this style's grammar; never paste the demo text.
Before anything is shown: qa.py --plan with zero FAIL and the 3 fps sheet eye pass (playbook/MOTION-QA.md). Facts on
screen come only from the source (the owner's facts table, their own pages, a cited source).