# Vintage Watercolor City Poster

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Typography (@library.typography)](/@library.typography.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Posters and type
- AI keywords: watercolor, architecture, poster, painting, illustration
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
@Create image {city} — uppercase English city name
{subject} — overlapping into ONE silhouette, real geography ignored, everything below it dissolving into bare paper
{palette} — Four colors only
{CAPTION} — 3–5 word English line, offhand, never explanatory

---

[ASPECT RATIO]

Vertical 3:4

[SUBJECT]

{SUBJECT}

[STYLE]

Watercolor materiality first: wet-on-wet blooms, dark hard edges where a wash dried, density shifting within a single stroke as the water load changes. Pigment pools at the lower edge of each form; dry-brush passages split and let the cold-press tooth show through.

A thick brush pen lays the main contours first — about 40 strokes, no hatching.

Washes cross those lines 1–3 mm off register; color never doubles as the outline.

Coverage 60 percent — the untouched paper is the brightest value in the image.

Windows are short repeated strokes at uneven intervals, never drawn individually.

Form comes from flat washes and line, never from modeling.

[COLOR]

Four only: {PALETTE}.

Cream off-white paper ground, every color one step down in saturation for a vintage print tone.

Accent covers 8 percent of the frame at most.

[COMPOSITION]

Subject mass in the lower two thirds with clear margins left and right; upper third is unpainted paper for the lettering.

The tallest spire may pierce slightly into it.

Sky and ground stay bare paper.

[TYPOGRAPHY]

Top: "{CITY}" in oversized heavy brush lettering, all caps, spanning nearly the full width, wide letter spacing, dry grain streaking white through the strokes, ends splitting. MAIN color.

Bottom right: "{CAPTION}" small handwritten script, ACCENT color.

Signage is abstract blocks of color — no other legible text.

[NEGATIVE]

photorealistic, 3D, airbrush, gradient shading, cast shadows, reflections, logos, watermarks, border frames, painted sky, gibberish lettering, evenly saturated full coverage, mechanical window grids, thin typography, serif or script display fonts, Aspect ratio 4:5.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{city}` | city | CITY |
| `{subject}` | subject | one hero landmark as the highest point, one secondary structure a step lower, a mid-rise or terrain band beneath, a clos |
| `{palette}` | palette | MAIN (dark) / ACCENT (saturated) / SUB1 / SUB2 (muted) |
| `{CAPTION}` | CAPTION |   |
| `{SUBJECT}` | SUBJECT |   |
| `{PALETTE}` | PALETTE |   |
| `{CITY}` | CITY |   |

## About

A comprehensive template for creating minimalist, vintage watercolor city posters with brush lettering and wet-on-wet painting techniques.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.typography on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/vintage-watercolor-city-poster-xk5733
When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. Licence: https://promptclay.com/terms
The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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