everything-claude-code/skills/taste/references/genre-taxonomy.md

Visual-Genre Taxonomy

The named-genre catalog distilled from the reference corpus (a tour through a large generative visual-style library, plus a set of saved angelcore/hyperpop reels). Each name is effectively a complete prompt-and-grade preset: picking one inherits its palette, texture, lighting, and subject matter as a unit.

Use this as a picker. Choose one primary genre and at most one accent. The main SKILL.md groups these into families and maps them to the current music-video project.

Families and members

Ethereal / divine — weightless, holy, glowing, soft

• spiritualism — religious iconography, halos, god-rays, devotional
• glacial folk — cold blue + bone white, crystalline, minimal, calm
• beacons — single light source in darkness, signal, hope
• zen core — empty space, stillness, balance, muted
• fairy tale — storybook, illustrated, soft enchantment
• cozy blanket — warm, tactile, soft-focus comfort

Hyperpop / Y2K-cyber — glossy, chrome, neon, kawaii-cyber

• cyberdelia — psychedelic cyber, saturated, melting digital
• acid house — rave graphics, smileys, high-saturation acid color
• acid nora — acid-toned painterly, warped
• neo aggressano — aggressive maximal hyperpop, clashing color
• new liquid — wet chrome, liquid metal, glossy reflection
• 8-bit / pixel — retro game pixels, dithered, lo-fi digital

Dark / occult — high-contrast, ominous, grain

• dark academia — moody scholarly, sepia, candlelit, gothic
• smoke nostalgia — hazy, smoky, faded memory
• communist core — red star, propaganda poster, bold red/black
• abstract tech — schematic, cold, technical abstraction
• microzoathic — strange organic-dark microscopic forms

Retro / print — flat, graphic, halftone, nostalgic

• retro surfers — 60s–70s surf, sun-faded, beachy
• art deco — geometric gold, 1920s elegance, symmetry
• adventure pulp — pulp comic covers, dramatic, vintage
• classic advertising — mid-century ad illustration
• magazine collage — cut-paper, editorial collage, layered
• bumper stickers — sticker-bomb, kitsch, layered decals
• retro print / riso — limited-palette print, halftone, misregistration
• neo lisboa — tiled, azulejo-inspired, Mediterranean print
• factory pomo — postmodern industrial graphic
• 2026 austurbano — near-future urban editorial

Organic / textural — tactile, macro, woven, wet

• microbiology core — cells, micro-organic, petri textures
• weaving patterns — woven fiber, textile, interlace
• fruitage retro — fruit/produce, saturated, glossy still-life
• pacific punk wave — wet, oceanic, washed graphic
• shape design — bold flat shapes, Bauhaus-ish forms
• colour fusion — blended gradients, color-field

Systemic / data — gridded, generative, schematic

• numbers — numeric typography, ledgers, counting
• mazes — labyrinth, path, grid puzzle
• code web — node graphs, network, connections
• heatmap — thermal color mapping, data gradients
• the builds — constructed/blueprint, architectural systems
• multilayer — stacked transparent layers, depth
• scrapbooking — assembled keepsakes, layered ephemera

Cultural / kitsch — loud, specific, referential

• catholic kitsch — devotional kitsch, gilded saints
• mexendero / megadero / cubanista — Latin-American vernacular graphic
• asian chic / asian store — East-Asian retail/pop vernacular
• battle of culture — clashing cultural motifs
• premium brands — luxury packaging, refined commercial
• pro collectibles — trading-card / collectible framing
• diaper design / suburbia / ivy league / sharp preppy — Americana suburban/preppy
• carnival difference — festival, maximal celebration
• men x soft club / faces — portrait-forward, soft club
• gomu / proteum aero / ice core / visual hex / vidcoms / anti-ai / photo-first — misc presets observed

The exact spelling/membership of some preset names is transcribed from low-resolution screen frames and may vary slightly from the source app's labels. The families are the durable, reusable layer; treat individual names as inspiration tags, not canonical IDs.

How to use a genre as a preset

1. Pick the genre that matches the section's emotional job (see the shot plan in SKILL.md).
2. Translate it into a fal.ai prompt by combining: its palette + its texture + its subject, then append the project's global suffix (9:16, cinematic, film grain, volumetric light, no text).
3. Keep one accent color; render 6–10; keep 2–3.
4. Never mix more than primary + one accent across a single section, or the edit loses coherence.