Typography · AI prompt guide
Clarendon AI image prompts
Robert Besley's 1845 bracketed slab serif — a sturdy, friendly 'Ionic' with curved brackets and ball terminals, designed to bold-face and emphasize text. The first registered typeface design. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Clarendon vocabulary.
Copy-ready prompts
Midjourney
a typographic specimen poster in the Clarendon style, clarendon, ionic slab serif, robert besley, bracketed slab, ball terminals, low contrast, large x-height, display signage, slab-serif, bracketed-serif, low-contrast, vertical-stress, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A typographic specimen poster in the Clarendon style. Emphasize clarendon, ionic slab serif, robert besley, bracketed slab, ball terminals, low contrast, large x-height, display signage. The mood is slab-serif, bracketed-serif, low-contrast, vertical-stress. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a typographic specimen poster in the Clarendon style, clarendon, ionic slab serif, robert besley, bracketed slab, ball terminals, low contrast, large x-height, display signage, slab-serif, bracketed-serif, low-contrast, vertical-stress, highly detailed, sharp focus Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed
Clarendon keyword vocabulary
Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.
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