71 Graphic Design and Art Styles for Your Prompts
A large list of design & art styles with prebuilt prompts & downloadable CSV
Many of the artifacts we are building today involve (or benefit from) some level of design, formating and creative style. When using AI to help us create these artifacts, I’ve found myself repeatedly copy pasting prebuilt prompts for different styles to help make the output more aligned with designs i prefer. I do this so much in fact I started a notion page to keep track of all the different styles I have come across or use regularly.
Today we are starting a new series for our blog that will showcase collections of datasets for prompting. Graphic Design and Art styles will be the first but many other “collections” of topics and information will be useful for prompting and will hopefully become a good resource for the community. We may occasionally update these datasets and bring them to the top of our blog so they are more like living documents than one and done posts.
Here is an example of a real prompt I used to help with work and generate a response to an RFP that ended up looking abit better then just “make me a doc”.
help me create a
then i will go through it with you and we can revise and refine the answers
also include our Magicpill Labs logo in the html doc (make sure it uses the transparent background) and make sure the html doc has the intention of being printed off as a pdf
Hope this helps you make something great!
Swiss / International Typographic
Prompt fragment: Swiss International Typographic style: strict modular grid, Helvetica, flush-left ragged-right, generous white space, black with a single red accent, no ornament
Bauhaus
Prompt fragment: Bauhaus style: pure geometric primitives (circle, square, triangle), primary red/yellow/blue plus black on off-white, hard flat color, no gradients, functional composition
Russian Constructivism
Prompt fragment: Russian Constructivist poster: aggressive diagonal composition, red black and cream only, heavy geometric wedges, photomontage fragment, condensed sans in blocks
De Stijl / Neoplasticism
Prompt fragment: De Stijl neoplasticism: only horizontal and vertical black rules on white, rectangles filled in pure red, blue and yellow, asymmetric balance, no curves or diagonals
Italian Futurism
Prompt fragment: Italian Futurist composition: explosive radiating speed lines, type set at wild angles and mixed sizes, motion blur of machinery, red black and steel grey
Art Deco
Prompt fragment: Art Deco style: strict bilateral symmetry, stepped ziggurat forms and sunburst rays, gold on deep black, elongated geometric sans lettering, luxurious and precise
Art Nouveau
Prompt fragment: Art Nouveau style: sinuous whiplash curves, stylized botanical vines and florals, ornate framing border, muted olive gold and dusty rose, decorative hand-lettered forms
Mid-Century Modern
Prompt fragment: Mid-century modern illustration: atomic starbursts and kidney/boomerang shapes, mustard teal burnt-orange and cream, flat color with subtle print texture, thin ink linework
Graphic Brutalism
Prompt fragment: Graphic brutalism: raw unstyled structure, concrete grey and stark black, oversized cropped type, exposed rules and boxes, default system/monospace fonts, zero polish
Japanese Minimalism (Ma)
Prompt fragment: Japanese minimalist design: dominant negative space (ma), one small precise mark or line, off-white paper ground, sumi black, extreme restraint, tiny caption-scale type
Suprematism
Prompt fragment: Suprematist composition: pure geometric forms floating in an infinite white void, tilted rectangles and bars in black red and blue, no horizon or ground, non-objective and weightless
Op Art
Prompt fragment: Op art: hard black and white stripe fields that warp and bulge, moiré interference, optical vibration and illusory movement, precise geometric repetition, no color or with one hue only
Editorial Fashion Layout
Prompt fragment: High-fashion editorial layout: oversized high-contrast display serif masthead, full-bleed photography cropped tight, extreme scale contrast against tiny caption type, hairline rules, wide margins, restrained palette
Plakatstil / Sachplakat
Prompt fragment: Sachplakat object poster: one product drawn flat and frontal at large scale on a plain field, three flat colors and no more, a single word in heavy block letters, no ornament, no perspective, no shading
Saul Bass Titles
Prompt fragment: Saul Bass title-sequence style: torn and cut-paper geometry with slightly ragged edges, one symbolic glyph carrying the whole idea, condensed sans in solid blocks, two or three flat colors on a plain field, no gradient or depth
Isotype
Prompt fragment: Isotype picture statistics in the Neurath and Arntz manner: identical flat pictograms repeated in a row to show quantity rather than scaled up, strict baselines, silhouette figures with no facial detail, no perspective or shading, one signal color against a muted ground
Streamline Moderne
Prompt fragment: Streamline Moderne: teardrop and bullet forms with rounded noses and long horizontal chrome banding, speed whiskers trailing off the form, ocean-liner cream with polished aluminium, wind-tunnel curvature throughout, no ziggurats and no sunbursts
Cubism
Prompt fragment: Analytic Cubism: the subject fractured into faceted planes seen from several viewpoints at once, restricted palette of ochre grey and umber, shallow ambiguous depth with no single light source, thin contour lines cutting straight across forms
Psychedelic Poster
Prompt fragment: 1960s psychedelic concert poster: warped melting lettering filling every inch, vibrating complementary colors, liquid-light swirls, hand-drawn ornament, no white space
Pop Art / Ben-Day
Prompt fragment: Pop art in the Lichtenstein manner: visible Ben-Day dot halftone, thick black comic outlines, flat primary red yellow blue, speech-balloon panel composition
Memphis Design
Prompt fragment: Memphis Milano style: clashing pastel and primary shapes, squiggle and confetti motifs, black-and-white terrazzo patterns, playful arbitrary geometry, 1980s postmodern
Vaporwave
Prompt fragment: Vaporwave aesthetic: magenta-to-cyan gradient sky, neon perspective grid horizon, Roman bust and chrome text, VHS scanlines, 1990s mall nostalgia, Japanese katakana accents
Y2K / Frutiger Aero
Prompt fragment: Y2K Frutiger Aero style: sunlit glass-and-green architecture, lush foliage pressed against clean white gloss surfaces, glossy aqua bubbles with specular highlights, liquid chrome type, lens flares, sky-blue-to-white gradients, optimistic techno-utopian
Atomic Retro-Futurism
Prompt fragment: Atomic-age retro-futurism: raygun gothic rockets and finned architecture, orbit rings and starbursts, turquoise coral and cream, airbrushed pulp-magazine optimism
Grunge / Deconstructed
Prompt fragment: 1990s deconstructed grunge editorial: layered torn textures and photocopy grain, type overlapping and colliding, broken grid, low-contrast dirty palette, intentionally illegible
Punk Zine / Xerox Collage
Prompt fragment: Punk zine aesthetic: ransom-note lettering cut from magazines, blown-out photocopy contrast, cut-and-paste registration errors, staples and tape, black on newsprint with one screaming spot color
70s Groovy
Prompt fragment: 1970s groovy style: fat rounded bubble lettering, layered rainbow arcs and stripes, burnt orange avocado mustard and cream, sun motifs, warm print texture
Vintage Americana / Sign Painting
Prompt fragment: Vintage American sign-painting style: ornate banner ribbons and scrollwork, brush script paired with heavy slab serif, gold-leaf and drop-shadow lettering, distressed cream and deep red
80s Airbrush
Prompt fragment: 1980s airbrush illustration: smooth soft-edged gradient blends with no visible strokes, polished chrome lettering with sharp specular highlights, peach magenta and electric blue, soft glow and speed streaks
Pulp Sci-Fi Paperback
Prompt fragment: Pulp science-fiction paperback cover: lurid saturated color, dramatic backlit silhouette, ringed planet and alien sky, bold banner title bar, price burst and imprint logo in the corner, painted airbrushed rendering
WPA Poster
Prompt fragment: WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen poster: four or five flat stacked color planes building depth without gradients, a heroic simplified figure or landform, sans-serif type set inside a solid box, matte poster ink, limited screen palette
Superflat
Prompt fragment: Superflat in the Murakami manner: high-chroma anime surfaces with no depth, shading or perspective, Edo-style flat all-over composition, one cheerful motif repeated across the field at different scales, crisp black contours, commercial-pop finish
Cassette Futurism
Prompt fragment: Cassette futurism: the future as imagined in 1979: chunky beige and olive plastic housings with visible screws, CRT screens showing green phosphor text, oversized mechanical keys, reel-to-reel tape and toggle switches, warm tungsten light, no neon
Pixel Art / 8-bit
Prompt fragment: Pixel art, 8-bit: hard aliased square pixels on a visible grid, tight limited palette (8–16 colors), ordered dithering for shading, no anti-aliasing, chunky sprite silhouettes
Glitch / Datamosh
Prompt fragment: Glitch art: RGB channel separation, horizontal slice displacement, datamosh smearing, scanlines and compression artifacts, corrupted-signal aesthetic on dark ground
Neubrutalism (Digital)
Prompt fragment: Neubrutalist UI: thick 3px black borders, hard offset drop shadows with no blur, saturated flat fills, chunky sans type, visible boxes, zero gradients or soft edges
Isometric Flat
Prompt fragment: Isometric flat illustration: true 30-degree axonometric projection, no perspective convergence, three flat tones per face for light/mid/shadow, modular stacked blocks, clean vector edges
Low-Poly 3D
Prompt fragment: Low-poly 3D render: visible triangulated faceting, flat per-face shading with hard edges, cool gradient palette, simple studio lighting, crystalline silhouettes
Blueprint / Technical Drawing
Prompt fragment: Technical blueprint: white hairlines on cyanotype blue, orthographic projection with dimension lines and arrowheads, callout leaders, title block, engineering annotation in mono type
ASCII / Terminal
Prompt fragment: ASCII terminal art: character-grid composition using only monospace glyphs, phosphor green or amber on black, CRT scanline glow, box-drawing characters for structure
Cyberpunk Neon
Prompt fragment: Cyberpunk neon: glowing magenta and cyan tube signage against wet black streets, dense stacked kanji/latin signage, volumetric haze, high contrast with deep shadow, blade-runner atmosphere
Claymorphism
Prompt fragment: Claymorphism: soft inflated 3D clay forms, heavily rounded corners, matte pastel colors, dual inner and outer soft shadows, playful toy-like depth, no sharp edges
Glassmorphism
Prompt fragment: Glassmorphism UI: frosted translucent panels with background blur, 1px light-edge borders, vivid colorful blobs behind the glass, layered depth, subtle inner glow
Bento Grid
Prompt fragment: Bento grid layout: modular rounded cards of mixed sizes tiling a single viewport, generous inner padding, one card carrying an accent color and the rest neutral, small UI fragments and micro-charts inside each cell
Duotone
Prompt fragment: Duotone treatment: photograph mapped to exactly two colors, shadows in a deep hue and highlights in a bright complementary one, no midtone neutrals, high contrast with crushed blacks, bold sans overlay
Skeuomorphism
Prompt fragment: Skeuomorphic interface: literal material metaphors rendered in full: stitched leather and woven linen, brushed metal and wood grain, glossy glass buttons with specular highlights and bevels, inner shadows and letterpress text, every control physically plausible
Neumorphism
Prompt fragment: Neumorphic UI: controls extruded from the panel in exactly the background color, paired soft shadows: light from the top-left and dark to the bottom-right, very low contrast throughout, rounded pillow forms, no borders and no accent fills
1-bit / Dither
Prompt fragment: 1-bit dithered image: pure black and white with no grey values at all, tone produced entirely by Atkinson or Bayer ordered dithering, hard threshold edges, coarse visible dot grid, early Macintosh screen feel
Web 1.0
Prompt fragment: Web 1.0 page: a tiled patterned background behind everything, visible table-cell borders, beveled grey buttons, Times New Roman body copy, an under-construction GIF and a hit counter, centered fixed-width layout, no CSS
HUD / FUI
Prompt fragment: Fictional user interface HUD: thin single-weight vector strokes over a dark or transparent ground, corner targeting brackets, radial tick scales and concentric reticles, monospaced telemetry readouts in the margins, one phosphor color (cyan or amber) plus a faint scan glow
Generative / Plotter
Prompt fragment: Generative pen-plotter drawing: algorithmic repetition with controlled random variation across a grid, single-weight pen line with visible overshoot and hitch where the gantry changes direction, two or three ink colors on paper stock, the underlying system legible in the output
Painterly / Digital Oil
Prompt fragment: Painterly digital oil: visible directional brushwork and impasto texture, soft lost-and-found edges, warm-to-cool temperature shifts, no linework, alla prima energy
Watercolor
Prompt fragment: Watercolor: translucent layered washes with hard-edge blooms and granulation, visible cold-press paper texture, white paper left as highlight, loose wet-into-wet bleeding
Woodcut / Linocut
Prompt fragment: Woodcut / linocut print: bold carved black marks, parallel hatching and cross-hatching for tone, high contrast with no greys, slight ink bleed and gouge chatter, one ink on cream
Risograph
Prompt fragment: Risograph print: two or three spot inks (fluorescent pink, blue, yellow) overprinting into multiply blends, visible misregistration, coarse grain and roller streaks, uncoated stock
Continuous Line Art
Prompt fragment: Continuous single-line art: one unbroken stroke of uniform weight describing the subject, no shading or fill, elegant minimal contour, generous empty space, ink on warm paper
Flat Vector Editorial
Prompt fragment: Flat vector editorial illustration: pure flat fills with no outlines or gradients, limited 4-color palette, simplified geometric figures and props, generous negative space, conceptual metaphor
Ukiyo-e
Prompt fragment: Ukiyo-e woodblock print: flat color planes bounded by a fine key-block outline, bokashi gradient skies, stylized waves and clouds, indigo prussian blue and vermilion, off-center composition with cartouche
Botanical Engraving
Prompt fragment: Scientific botanical engraving: fine hatched and stippled linework, precise anatomical accuracy, sepia or single-ink on aged paper, italic Latin binomial caption and specimen number
Screenprint / Halftone Poster
Prompt fragment: Screenprinted gig poster: 2–3 spot colors, halftone dot gradients standing in for tone, visible registration offset, heavy ink texture, bold display lettering on uncoated stock
Dada Photomontage
Prompt fragment: Dada photomontage: torn halftone photo fragments at clashing scales, absurd juxtaposition, mismatched typefaces and rotated text, hand-drawn arrows and numbers, chaotic anti-composition
Ligne Claire
Prompt fragment: Ligne claire: every contour drawn at exactly the same line weight, flat unmodulated color fills, no hatching or cast shadows, background rendered with the same clarity as the foreground, clean Franco-Belgian comic style
Manga / Screentone
Prompt fragment: Manga inking: black-and-white only, adhesive screentone dot patterns for grey values, radiating speed lines and impact bursts, irregular panel shapes with white gutters, dramatic foreshortened crop
Layered Papercut
Prompt fragment: Layered papercut illustration: shapes cut from matte colored paper and stacked in receding planes, soft cast shadow under each layer, visible paper edges and slight curl, depth built entirely from stacking
Polish Poster School
Prompt fragment: Polish poster school: one painterly uncanny metaphor carrying the entire message, loose gouache handling with torn and scraped texture, irregular hand-drawn lettering, muted moody palette with a single saturated note, almost no copy on the sheet
Surrealism
Prompt fragment: Surrealism in the Magritte and Dali manner: a single impossible object placed in a quiet illusionistic landscape, deep receding space with a low horizon and empty sky, long raking shadows, meticulous academic rendering, dreamlike stillness and no motion
Pointillism
Prompt fragment: Pointillism in the Seurat manner: the image built entirely from discrete unblended dots of pure pigment, colors mixed optically in the eye rather than on the palette, complementary dots placed side by side to make the surface vibrate, no outlines or contours, calm architectural composition
Rubber Hose
Prompt fragment: Rubber hose animation: characters built from bouncing curves with no elbows or knees, limbs that bend like flexible tubing, circular head with pie-cut eyes and a fixed grin, oversized four-finger white gloves and bulbous shoes, even-weight black ink outlines with no line variation, black and white on aged film stock with speckle and vertical scratches
Sumi-e / Ink Wash
Prompt fragment: Sumi-e ink wash: black ink on raw paper, each form made in one loaded confident stroke with visible pressure change from wet bleed at the start to dry-brush split at the tail, large areas of paper reserved as mist, nothing reworked, a single red seal
Cyanotype
Prompt fragment: Cyanotype photogram: deep Prussian blue ground with pure white silhouettes where the objects blocked the light, soft halos at the edges, uneven brush-coated borders and visible paper texture, botanical or tool contact print, blue and white only
Greco-Roman Classical
Prompt fragment: Greco-Roman classical style: strict bilateral symmetry and proportion, fluted Doric, Ionic or Corinthian columns under a triangular pediment and stepped entablature, white marble and travertine with terracotta and lapis accents, Greek key meander borders, Trajan-style inscriptional capitals, laurel and acanthus ornament
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