# Photocopy Degradation: motion graphics style

> A copy of a copy of a copy: each pass of the scanner lamp makes the word blacker, rougher and more skewed, with toner speckle, drum streaks and dark edges. Echoes punk zines and DIY flyers; good for posters, band visuals and gritty editorial.

- Category: [Analog Video & Glitch](https://aimotions.art/category/analog-video-glitch/)
- Also known as: copy of a copy, photocopier effect, photocopy texture, zine aesthetic, toner grunge, generation loss, punk flyer look
- Demo built with: WebGL · Energy: Calm · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/photocopy-degradation/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/photocopy-degradation/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Show [TEXT] degrading through repeated photocopying. Lay it out like a DIY flyer on off-white paper: [TEXT] large in a fat high-contrast serif, a thick rule above it and two blocks of small text lines below. Every second a pale green scanner lamp sweeps left to right and leaves behind the next generation: harsher black-and-white contrast, hairlines breaking up, heavy strokes bloating, more toner speckle in the white areas, faint vertical streaks from a dirty drum, darker gray borders creeping in from the edges, and the whole page rotated and nudged a little further each time. After five generations sweep in a clean original and loop every 8 seconds.
```

## Visual DNA

- Black toner on off-white paper with harsh, crushed contrast
- Thin serifs breaking up while heavy strokes bloat with each generation
- Pale green scan lamp sweeping across to print the next copy
- Growing toner speckle, vertical drum streaks and dark page edges
- Each copy slightly rotated and shifted from the last

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Photocopy Degradation, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/photocopy-degradation/