Put the cover under the lamp. Each of the five things that made it work is a layer you can switch on: the words, the grid it sits on, the colours it uses, the subject, the light.
クソほど地頭がいい人の『思考の圧縮術』. Uses an extremely colloquial exaggerated word plus a quoted term to create a strong curiosity gap around a "smart person's secret method," making people want to read on.
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Posted by シアニン｜言語化コンサル on WeChat cover, 1 Jun 2026. Shown with credit and a link back.
Keep all five layers and swap what’s under them: your shop, your budget, your city. You get four covers and the post text.
Verbatim. Copy it, or let Queenie swap in your own details.
Based on the reference cover's composition, visual metaphor, and WeChat public-account thumbnail readability, generate a new horizontal WeChat public-account cover. Output size: 1456x582, ratio about 2.5:1; the core subject and essential title information should also work with WeChat's safe square crop. WeChat article title: {fill in the WeChat article title} Summary: {fill in the summary} Original cover method: "Thinking Compression": The Secret of Extremely Smart People Style dual-skill Create a horizontal WeChat public-account article cover, 2.35:1 aspect ratio, for an article titled ""Thinking Compression": The Secret of Extremely Smart People". Central concept: distill a single visual metaphor around "the secret of thinking compression for extremely smart people," avoiding cramming all the article's information into the image. Style: preserve the reference cover's visual direction: black-and-white or low-saturation editorial illustration/photo. Use a palette inspired by #fefefe (white), #dbdedd (cream), #7b7c7c (gray), #fcfcfb (white). Keep the image editorial, conceptual, and readable as a small WeChat thumbnail. Composition: the image is information-dense, suitable for a central subject plus supporting information on the left and right, keeping the thumbnail readable. Keep the main subject and any essential title text inside the safe square crop, while using the full wide frame for atmosphere, secondary symbols, or directional motion. Text strategy: use either no text or a very short headline fragment from the title. If text is used, make it large, clean, and integrated into the layout rather than pasted on top. Mood: match the article skill "the secret of thinking compression for extremely smart people style dual-skill" -- useful, sharp, high-signal, and slightly more memorable than a normal tutorial thumbnail. Avoid: photorealistic clutter unless the source cover is photo-led, fake logos, unreadable tiny text, generic gradient blobs, stock-office imagery, watermark-like marks, and literal screenshots unless the article is explicitly about software interfaces.
