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Trajan AI image prompts
Carol Twombly's 1989 all-capitals titling face, drawn after the Roman inscription at the base of Trajan's Column. Monumental, classical, and inescapable on film posters and book jackets. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Trajan vocabulary.
Copy-ready prompts
Midjourney
a typographic specimen poster in the Trajan style, trajan, inscriptional capitals, carol twombly, roman capitals, flaring serifs, glyphic titling, monumental type, all-caps display, glyphic, incised, flared-terminal, low-contrast, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A typographic specimen poster in the Trajan style. Emphasize trajan, inscriptional capitals, carol twombly, roman capitals, flaring serifs, glyphic titling, monumental type, all-caps display. The mood is glyphic, incised, flared-terminal, low-contrast. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a typographic specimen poster in the Trajan style, trajan, inscriptional capitals, carol twombly, roman capitals, flaring serifs, glyphic titling, monumental type, all-caps display, glyphic, incised, flared-terminal, low-contrast, highly detailed, sharp focus Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed
Trajan 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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