Verified against Ideogram · 2026-08-13
Create a vintage-style travel poster with the destination name rendered as real typography
A retro travel-poster brief that leans on Ideogram's text accuracy to render the destination name and tagline as clean period-appropriate lettering rather than the smeared pseudo-text older models produce.
The prompt
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A vintage 1950s golden-age travel poster illustration for LISBON, trams climbing a hillside street lined with tiled buildings rendered in flat stylized illustration with visible flat gouache-style brushwork and visible halftone shading, large stylized display text at the bottom third, centered that reads "LISBON" in period-appropriate lettering, small tagline text beneath it that reads "City of Seven Hills", terracotta, ochre, and faded turquoise palette with slightly aged/muted tones, subtle paper grain texture across the whole composition, border frame typical of the era's travel posters
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Why this works
Vintage travel posters are a genre defined as much by their lettering as their illustration — the destination name in bold period display type is the whole point of the format — which makes them a poor fit for image models that can't reliably spell a place name, since a garbled 'LISBQN' breaks the illusion immediately even if the illustration around it is beautiful. This prompt puts the destination name in quotes twice in effect (once as the illustrated subject, once as the literal text string), which reinforces to Ideogram that this exact word needs to appear both as scene content and as rendered typography, reducing the chance it treats the name as purely descriptive context. Calling out the specific era and illustration technique (gouache, halftone, woodblock, whatever fits) does real work beyond aesthetics: it steers the model toward flatter, more graphic-design-like rendering rather than photorealism, and flatter compositions are exactly where Ideogram's text engine performs most reliably, since photorealistic scenes with embedded signage text are a noticeably harder case for any current model. The paper grain and border frame instructions are finishing touches that sell the vintage read without affecting text accuracy, so they're placed after the text-critical instructions rather than competing with them for the model's attention.
What you get back
A warm, muted-palette illustrated poster with a stylized cityscape and the destination name rendered in bold vintage display lettering across the bottom third, aged paper texture completing the period look.
Verified against
Ideogram V3 · 2026-08-13
Changelog
- 2026-08-13 — Initial publish, verified against Ideogram V3 for destination-name lettering accuracy in illustrated posters.
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