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WPA Poster AI image prompts
Depression-era American public-service posters from the Federal Art Project's silkscreen workshops, built from flat planes of color, bold sans-serif lettering, and streamlined geometric imagery. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the WPA Poster vocabulary.
Copy-ready prompts
Midjourney
a poster in the WPA Poster style, WPA silkscreen poster, flat color planes, Art Deco geometry, bold sans-serif lettering, New Deal public poster, national parks travel poster, limited color palette, streamlined modern imagery, flat-color, silkscreen, geometric, sans-serif, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A poster in the WPA Poster style. Emphasize WPA silkscreen poster, flat color planes, Art Deco geometry, bold sans-serif lettering, New Deal public poster, national parks travel poster, limited color palette, streamlined modern imagery. The mood is flat-color, silkscreen, geometric, sans-serif. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a poster in the WPA Poster style, WPA silkscreen poster, flat color planes, Art Deco geometry, bold sans-serif lettering, New Deal public poster, national parks travel poster, limited color palette, streamlined modern imagery, flat-color, silkscreen, geometric, sans-serif, highly detailed, sharp focus Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed
WPA Poster 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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