Two printed receipts side by side: the old way's total vs. yours. Money math as a visual gut-punch.
Radical-transparency cost diagram, vertical 4:5, flat matte mid-grey background with every other element rendered in a single color: white. TOP: a thin elegant serif headline, exactly: "[HEADLINE — e.g. "Honest Pricing"]"; beneath it two centered serif manifesto lines, exactly: "[MANIFESTO — e.g. "We think you deserve to know what your things cost to make."]". MIDDLE: a row of five minimal white line icons for the real inputs, each with a letterspaced small-caps label and its cost beneath, exactly: "[INPUTS — e.g. "MATERIALS 9.40 / KNITTING 6.10 / FINISHING 2.20 / DUTIES 1.90 / TRANSPORT 0.90"]" — choose numbers that sum exactly to the true cost. A dotted bracket gathers all five and drops by a dotted vertical line to one simple product icon of [PRODUCT — e.g. "Marlo, a merino crewneck"], labeled beneath in small caps, exactly: "TRUE COST [SUM — e.g. "20.50"]". BOTTOM: two dotted lines diverge to a pair of thin-stroke circles — left circle "[YOUR PRICE — e.g. "48"]" with "[BRAND — e.g. "MARLO"]" beneath, right circle "[THEIR PRICE — e.g. "110"]" with "DEPARTMENT STORE" beneath. Quiet, monkish, decoration-free — the restraint is the persuasion. Negative: no photography, no second color, no drop shadows, no currency symbols needed; arithmetic consistent, every number and word exactly as quoted, crisp.