
01 / Overview
Feels authoritative, expert, trust, with a deliberate rather than generic personality.
Signature move
A key clause or decision is visibly connected to its governing source and next procedural step.
- Intensity
- restrained
- Versatility
- 4 / 5
- ID
legal-modern
02 / Example art
Legal Modern
Original artwork establishes the direction's visual language before it is translated into an interface.

03 / Website example
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Examples are in production
The direction is available now. Its brand websites are being built as independent sites and will appear here during local production.
04 / Fit
Suitable for
Suitable for
legal / compliance / government / finance / insurance / professional services
Business goals
understand / decide / verify / act
A strong choice when
Strong when legal, compliance, government, finance need to understand, decide, verify through a memorable but repeatable visual system.
Avoid when
Avoid when the brief needs complete visual neutrality or when this direction would compete with essential information and actions.
05 / Design system
Design system
Rules that should remain coherent as content, devices, and business needs change.
- 01Composition
- Argument, source, status, deadline, and next action stay visible through long or complex content.
- 02Hierarchy
- Make the signature move the first organizing decision, then reveal supporting information through stable scale, alignment, and sequence.
- 03Typography
- Authoritative contemporary serif for argument, neutral sans for procedure, and exact citation hierarchy.
- 04Color
- Ink and paper with one owned non-navy accent and strict semantic status colors.
- 05Imagery
- People, place, documents, process, and subject evidence; avoid gavels, columns, and handshake stock.
- 06Material
- Rules, tabs, folios, seals, and document edges appear only where they clarify provenance or state.
- 07Motion
- Reveal definitions, compare revisions, and trace procedure without delaying access to text.
Adaptation
Keep the signature move invariant. Adapt imagery, material, language, and interaction to the actual legal, compliance, government context rather than copying a finished reference.
Accessibility
Use progressive disclosure, stable alignment, and generous line spacing for dense information. Meet WCAG AA contrast, visible focus, 44px targets, and never encode meaning through color or style alone.
06 / Background
Background
These lineages are source-linked research doors, not permission to copy a particular work or brand.
- 01roman capitals
- 02transitional serif
- 03swiss
- 04govuk design system
Guardrail
Use jurisdiction-correct terminology, accessibility, disclaimers, deadlines, and professional responsibility requirements.
07 / Agent recipe
legal-modern
Use the stable ID and recipe to give design agents the same context. Always adapt the output to the real business.
Prompt recipe
Use case: stylized-concept
Asset type: Aesthetic Directions Encyclopedia showcase, 3:2 landscape master
Primary request: Create one polished freeform showcase for Legal Modern, applied to PLAIN CASE, a clearly fictional plain-language legal advisory.
Scene/backdrop: a contemporary legal consultation table with a clear argument map, source clauses, risk levels, and next actions instead of courtroom symbols.
Style/medium: A coherent contemporary design world, not a collage of references. Communicate authority, argument, and procedural clarity without the visual costume of an old law firm.
Composition/framing: Argument, source, status, deadline, and next action stay visible through long or complex content. Keep all important content inside an 8 percent safe margin.
Typography: Authoritative contemporary serif for argument, neutral sans for procedure, and exact citation hierarchy.
Color palette: Ink and paper with one owned non-navy accent and strict semantic status colors.
Imagery: People, place, documents, process, and subject evidence; avoid gavels, columns, and handshake stock.
Materials/textures: Rules, tabs, folios, seals, and document edges appear only where they clarify provenance or state.
Text (verbatim): "PLAIN CASE". No other readable words.
Constraints: Original fictional concept; visibly applied to website, editorial, presentation; realistic production detail; no real company, client, result, claim, signature, or watermark; no imitation of a living artist or proprietary campaign.
Avoid: navy-and-gold law template, courthouse-column cliche, dense terms without plain-language structure, real logos, watermarks, artist imitation, generic mood board, illegible filler text.
Pilot refinement: Make one dominant integrated real-world application readable at thumbnail scale. Secondary views may support it but must remain subordinate. Do not create an equal-weight tiled mood board or generic presentation collage unless sequencing is essential to the direction. Render the exact requested text correctly and do not invent other readable copy.Working constraints
- Use one coherent direction grammar, not a collage of style references.
- Use only a fictional business and minimal exact text.
- Do not imitate a living artist, real brand, client project, or proprietary campaign.
- Preserve essential hierarchy, legibility, contrast, and reduced-motion equivalence.
- Avoid: navy-and-gold law template.
- Avoid: courthouse-column cliche.
- Avoid: dense terms without plain-language structure.
08 / Sources & rights
Sources & rights
Work ownerSol
Example licenseAll rights reserved
- 01
V&A — トラヤヌス帝記念柱の石膏複製
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 02
Cambridge Digital Library — バスカヴィルのパンチ
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 03
Poster House — The Swiss Grid
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 04
GOV.UK Design System — Styles(英国政府 Government Digital Service)
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
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