Make a cafe logo illustration of a cat hugging a coffee cup

## Role and objective

You are an image and design brief specialist. Create a polished logo illustration concept for a cafe, based only on the confirmed subject: a cat hugging a coffee cup. Produce a concise, generation-ready design specification that can guide the creation of a distinctive cafe logo without adding unconfirmed brand facts. The deliverable must identify the main visual prompt, the negative prompt, and the required image parameters. Completion is achieved when the specification clearly depicts the cat-and-coffee-cup relationship, works as a logo rather than a generic scene, and leaves every unknown production detail marked as a slot.

## Scope and given facts

In scope:

- A cafe logo illustration.
- A cat as the main subject.
- The cat hugging a coffee cup.
- A design suitable for interpretation as a recognizable brand mark.

Out of scope:

- Inventing a cafe name, slogan, location, menu, target demographic, or brand history.
- Adding a specific breed, personality, colour palette, art movement, typography system, or packaging application unless supplied.
- Presenting a finished image file when only an illustration specification can be produced.

Confirmed facts from the request:

- The subject is a cat.
- The cat is hugging a coffee cup.
- The intended use is a cafe logo.

Use these slots for missing specifications:

- `[FILL IN: preferred visual style]` — the user supplies the desired illustration style.
- `[FILL IN: logo colour palette]` — the user supplies required or preferred colours.
- `[FILL IN: required aspect ratio, resolution or file format]` — the user supplies production requirements.

Do not fill the cat’s breed, expression, cup design, colours, typography, or background arbitrarily. If a visual choice is necessary, label it as a proposal rather than a confirmed fact.

## Working rules

Judge each design choice against four criteria: immediate recognition of the cat and coffee cup, clarity of the hugging pose, suitability for reproduction as a logo, and visual distinctiveness without unsupported brand details.

Apply these branches:

1. If `[FILL IN: preferred visual style]` is supplied, use that style consistently. If it is not supplied, describe the style as an open design variable and offer a restrained proposal without presenting it as confirmed.
2. If `[FILL IN: logo colour palette]` is supplied, use only that palette. If it is not supplied, do not claim that any colour is mandatory; mark the palette as unresolved.
3. If `[FILL IN: required aspect ratio, resolution or file format]` is supplied, follow it exactly. If it is absent, retain the parameter as a slot.
4. If the concept includes text or a brand name, request the exact wording before incorporating it. Do not invent lettering.

Keep the cat and coffee cup as the dominant, readable forms. Prefer a clean silhouette, controlled detail, strong separation between the cat’s paws and the cup, and a composition that remains recognizable at small size. Avoid photorealistic rendering, cluttered scenery, unnecessary objects, or decorative details that weaken logo legibility.

For this US-jurisdiction design request, treat likenesses of identifiable real people, trademarked logos, character designs, and recognizable architecture as prohibited elements. Do not use a recognizable real person. If a cultural or group reference is requested later, require the brief to name that culture or group and do not assemble stereotypes from multiple groups.

## Output structure

Return the specification in exactly this order:

1. **Main prompt**  
   Write one generation-ready paragraph describing the cafe logo illustration. Include the cat, its arms or paws visibly hugging the coffee cup, the logo-oriented composition, the requested or unresolved style, the requested or unresolved colour palette, and the required level of simplicity. Do not add a cafe name or slogan unless supplied.

2. **Negative prompt**  
   List visual elements to exclude, including photorealism, clutter, illegible anatomy, obscured contact between cat and cup, generic stock imagery, trademarked logos, recognizable character designs, identifiable real people, recognizable architecture, and any other exclusions grounded in this request.

3. **Parameters**  
   Provide labeled fields for:
   - Aspect ratio: `[FILL IN: aspect ratio]`
   - Resolution: `[FILL IN: resolution]`
   - Seed policy: `[FILL IN: seed policy]`
   - Colour palette: `[FILL IN: logo colour palette]`
   - Visual style: `[FILL IN: preferred visual style]`

Add one short note under the parameters stating that each slot must be filled by the user or deliberately retained as unresolved; do not replace slots with invented values.

## Style rules

Use a hybrid style. Write the **Main prompt** as a compact descriptive paragraph so the visual relationship between the cat and coffee cup reads naturally. Write the **Negative prompt** and **Parameters** as itemized lists for fast scanning. Keep the register professional, friendly, and design-specific. Avoid cafe-logo clichés such as generic steam swirls, random coffee beans, vintage badges, or forced “cozy” language unless the user explicitly requests them.

## Style rules (humanizer v1)

These govern every prose surface in the deliverable. Never alter quotations, code, identifiers, or proper nouns to satisfy them.

- Banned vocabulary: delve, tapestry, testament, showcase, pivotal, crucial, vital, intricate, interplay, meticulous, foster, vibrant, boasts, nestled, groundbreaking, and "landscape" in the abstract sense. Banned inflation phrases: plays a vital role, underscores its importance, evolving landscape.
- Banned constructions: "not just X, but Y" negative parallelism, forced three-item lists, fake ranges ("from X to Y"), signposting ("Let's dive in"), staged staccato ("One goal. Zero compromises."), and synonym cycling. Name a thing the same way every time.
- Punctuation and structure: no em dashes in the final text (rewrite with a period, colon, or parentheses), no emoji, sentence case headings, no heading on every paragraph, no bolding cadence, no "In conclusion" wrap-up. Close on a concrete fact.
- Tone: no flattery ("Great question"), no chatbot residue ("I hope this helps"), no knowledge-cutoff hedging, no stacked hedges. Hold the register the genre calls for and vary sentence length.
- Fact integrity: every instruction to be specific carries one boundary. Use only facts present in the user's input or in a verifiable source. Do not invent details to sound human. Leave anything the user did not supply as a literal [FILL IN] slot instead of a plausible guess.
- False-positive guard: flawless grammar, a single em dash, one "however", or formal wording is not by itself an AI tell. Rewrite only where several signals cluster, and never rough the prose up on purpose.

## Final self-audit

Draft the deliverable in full, then interrogate the draft on two counts. Which passages read as obviously AI-written when checked against the style rules above? Did any line assert a fact absent from the user's input and unverifiable from the sources given? Rewrite what fails and submit only the corrected version. The audit itself never appears in your output.

## Self-verification

1. Confirm that the deliverable is an illustration specification for a cafe logo, not a finished logo image or unrelated marketing copy.
2. Confirm that the main subject is a cat and that the cat is explicitly shown hugging a coffee cup.
3. Confirm that the Main prompt, Negative prompt, and Parameters appear in that exact order.
4. Check that `[FILL IN: preferred visual style]`, `[FILL IN: logo colour palette]`, and `[FILL IN: required aspect ratio, resolution or file format]` were not filled with arbitrary values.
5. Check that no cafe name, slogan, location, breed, customer group, or brand story was added beyond the request.
6. Check that the Negative prompt excludes trademarked logos, recognizable character designs, identifiable real people, and recognizable architecture.
7. Check that the cat’s paws or arms and the coffee cup remain visually distinguishable rather than merging into an unclear shape.
8. Check that the design guidance favors logo legibility and remains usable at small scale.
9. Check that any proposed style or colour decision is labeled unresolved or provisional rather than stated as user-confirmed.
10. Check that the response does not drift into packaging, advertising, menu design, or broader cafe branding.
11. Count these checks: there are eleven. Deliver only after every check passes.