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Grotesque Sans-serif AI image prompts

The first family of sans-serif type — the blunt, slightly irregular nineteenth-century 'grotesques' that gave Victorian advertising its loud display voice. Sturdy and a touch awkward, they are the ancestral stock from which every later sans descends. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Grotesque Sans-serif vocabulary.

Type specimen — Grotesque Sans-serif (Sans-serif family); set in Archivo (OFL)

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a typographic specimen poster in the Grotesque Sans-serif style, grotesque sans, gothic sans-serif, nineteenth-century sans, Victorian display type, blunt unornamented letters, low contrast sans, closed aperture, jobbing poster type, grotesque, low-contrast, closed-aperture, double-story-g, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A typographic specimen poster in the Grotesque Sans-serif style. Emphasize grotesque sans, gothic sans-serif, nineteenth-century sans, Victorian display type, blunt unornamented letters, low contrast sans, closed aperture, jobbing poster type. The mood is grotesque, low-contrast, closed-aperture, double-story-g. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a typographic specimen poster in the Grotesque Sans-serif style, grotesque sans, gothic sans-serif, nineteenth-century sans, Victorian display type, blunt unornamented letters, low contrast sans, closed aperture, jobbing poster type, grotesque, low-contrast, closed-aperture, double-story-g, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Grotesque Sans-serif keyword vocabulary

Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.

Prompts for related styles

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