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Verdana AI image prompts

Matthew Carter's 1996 humanist sans, engineered pixel-by-pixel for Microsoft to stay legible at tiny sizes on low-resolution screens — generously wide, loosely spaced, and built for the early Web. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Verdana vocabulary.

Type specimen — Verdana (Humanist screen sans); shown in Source Sans 3, a close match (OFL)

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a typographic specimen poster in the Verdana style, verdana, matthew carter, screen typeface, web safe font, high x-height, wide spacing, low-resolution legibility, humanist screen sans, humanist, high-x-height, screen-optimized, open-aperture, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A typographic specimen poster in the Verdana style. Emphasize verdana, matthew carter, screen typeface, web safe font, high x-height, wide spacing, low-resolution legibility, humanist screen sans. The mood is humanist, high-x-height, screen-optimized, open-aperture. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a typographic specimen poster in the Verdana style, verdana, matthew carter, screen typeface, web safe font, high x-height, wide spacing, low-resolution legibility, humanist screen sans, humanist, high-x-height, screen-optimized, open-aperture, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Verdana keyword vocabulary

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

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