Every Letter a Thing
One word where no two letters are made of the same stuff — one is glass, one is a shell, one is a fish — floating over a road that runs to the horizon. Five fields.
Two runs of the same template. Letters built from one world's objects beside PICNIC built from a blanket, a bottle, a melon slice and a lit sparkler — same one-object-per-letter rule, same path running behind.
Generated from this template with the fields shown above — no two letters share a material, the props tuck into the gaps and overlap the edges, and the path recedes to a single vanishing point with pixel flowers along both sides. Run-to-run quirks: the model reads the whole letter list generously and may add a material the field did not name; the gradient sky, the tilt-per-letter rule and the shadowless bright palette hold every time.
Generated for this library
Input
Word MAKE IT MOVE
Letters M translucent violet acrylic · A a glossy indigo play
wedge · K knitted fabric with stitching · E orange
cartoon on a starburst · I pixel cubes · T a wooden
stylus · O a soap bubble · V crossed ribbons
Props floating cursors, indigo sparkles, a keyframe diamond,
one paper plane
Ground an indigo path narrowing to the horizon with dotted
motion guides, mint fields, small pixel flowers
Palette indigo, mint, cream yellow, coral, pearl white
Returned 1 illustration · 3:2 · centred word · road behind
sky deep indigo at the top easing to pale blue at the
horizon, fine white speckles and two four-point stars,
soft cream cloud edges at the sides
word centred, about half the frame, every letter its own
material, each tilted a little differently so the line
never sits flat
props the cursors and sparkles tucked into the letter gaps,
a few overlapping the edges so the layers read
ground the indigo path running to the vanishing point, dotted
guides down its centre, mint fields either side with
pixel flowers scattered near the front
light bright and even, shadows only as deeper tones of each
object's own colour, no grey anywhereYou fill in 5 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The word
- 2What each letter is made of
- 3The props between them
- 4The ground below
- 5The palette
Every Letter a Thing
Produce ONE image: a collage-lettering illustration where no two letters are made of the same material. Follow every line below. Replace only the FIELDS block; everything after it is fixed.
First — do you have the fields?
If any field below still has braces around it, stop and ask. Put all the questions in one short message, and show the example under each one so they can see the shape of a useful answer. Wait for the replies, then draw. Never fill a brace yourself: a value you invented is a value nobody asked for, and it will look exactly as considered as the ones they did give you.
Ask in whatever language they are writing to you in. Translate the questions and the examples; do not make someone read English to tell you what they want.
The examples are only examples. If someone answers a question, use their answer; never fall back to the example because you prefer it.
If the fields are already filled in, ignore this and carry on.
Fields — replace these five lines only
- The word: {one short word or two} e.g. MAKE IT MOVE
- What each letter is made of: {one material or object per letter} e.g. M as translucent violet acrylic with sharp highlights, A as a rounded play wedge in glossy indigo, K as knitted fabric with visible stitching, E as an orange cartoon letter on a starburst backing, I as a stack of pixel cubes, T as a wooden stylus laid across a bar, O as a soap bubble, V as two ribbons crossing
- The props between them: {three or four small themed objects} e.g. tiny floating cursors, small indigo sparkles, a mini keyframe diamond, one paper plane
- The ground below: {the path, and what lies on either side} e.g. a bright indigo path narrowing to the horizon, marked with dotted motion guides, soft mint fields on both sides scattered with small pixel flowers
- The palette: {four or five bright colours} e.g. indigo, mint, cream yellow, coral and pearl white — bright and clear
The frame
- Landscape 3:2, horizontal, centre-focused.
- Upper half: a clean vertical gradient sky, deep at the top easing pale toward the horizon. Fine white speckles across it, one or two bright four-point stars, and soft translucent cloud shapes at the left and right edges.
- Lower half: a one-point-perspective ground. A path runs from the foreground and narrows to a vanishing point at the horizon, with open, gently undulating fields on both sides, scattered with a few small themed objects near the front.
- The two halves meet at a clear horizon, and the depth of the ground is what makes the word feel like it is floating in front of something.
The word
- Centred, occupying roughly forty to fifty percent of the frame.
- Every letter is built from a different material or object. No two letters may share a treatment. Draw from the field: glass, acrylic, knitted or woven fabric with visible stitching, a cartoon letter on a starburst backing, a literal object shaped into the letterform, a cracked or glittering solid, a rounded outlined cartoon letter.
- Every letter is tilted slightly, and by a different amount, so the word never aligns to a baseline.
- Each letter carries one small decoration of its own — a sparkle, a leaf, a bubble, a spark — sitting close to it.
The props
- Small three-dimensional themed objects tuck into the gaps between letters, drawn in the same bright cartoon manner with clear edges.
- Some of them overlap the letters' edges. This is required: the overlap is what makes the word read as assembled by hand rather than typed.
Colour and finish
- Bright, saturated, macaron-adjacent. Clear and luminous throughout.
- Shadows exist only as a slightly deeper tone of an object's own colour, used to separate one shape from another. No grey, no black, no heavy shadow anywhere.
- Every element keeps a light surface texture — woven cloth, paper tooth, plastic sheen — so the whole thing feels touchable.
- Edges stay crisp. Nothing blurs.
Every part must
- ✓ differ from its neighbours in material, not just in colour
- ✓ tilt by its own amount
- ✓ sit inside the stated palette
- ✓ keep the word readable despite all of it
- ✓ let the ground recede properly to one vanishing point
Never
- ✕ two letters in the same material or the same treatment
- ✕ a single typeface applied across the word and then decorated
- ✕ letters aligned flat on a baseline
- ✕ heavy black shadows, grey shading, or muddy colour
- ✕ a photographic background, a real scene, or realistic lighting
- ✕ extra text — no subtitle, no byline, no logo
The result
A word that looks like it was cut, moulded, knitted and glued together by somebody having a very good day — floating over a road that goes somewhere, in colours you can see from across a room.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the five FIELDS lines. Spend your effort on the second one — naming a distinct material per letter is the whole trick.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the illustration.
- Swap the ground and the palette to move seasons — a sea road, a racetrack, a starlit walkway — and the same word comes back in a new world.
What you swap
- The word
- MAKE IT MOVE
- What each letter is made of
- M as translucent violet acrylic with sharp highlights, A as a rounded play wedge in glossy indigo, K as knitted fabric with visible stitching, E as an orange cartoon letter on a starburst backing, I as a stack of pixel cubes, T as a wooden stylus laid across a bar, O as a soap bubble, V as two ribbons crossing
- The props between them
- tiny floating cursors, small indigo sparkles, a mini keyframe diamond, one paper plane
- The ground below
- a bright indigo path narrowing to the horizon, marked with dotted motion guides, soft mint fields on both sides scattered with small pixel flowers
- The palette
- indigo, mint, cream yellow, coral and pearl white — bright and clear
Before it runs
- A short word or two. Every letter needs its own idea, and past about ten letters the ideas start repeating.
- A theme with objects in it. 'Playful' gives you nothing; an ocean, a workshop, a garden gives you a letter per noun.
- Willingness to let it be loud. Restraint kills this world faster than excess does.
When to reach for it
For anything aimed at people who like being delighted: a kids' event, a summer campaign, a playful cover. The rule that makes it work is refusing to let any two letters agree.
What changes
- A finished 3:2 illustration where the word is the subject — centred, taking about half the frame, tilted letter by letter so nothing sits on a baseline.
- Every letter is built from a different material or object drawn from your theme, so the word reads as a collage rather than a font.
- A one-point-perspective ground runs beneath it — a path narrowing to the horizon, open field on both sides — giving the whole thing depth.
- Small themed props tuck between the letters and overlap their edges, which is what sells the handmade layering.
- Bright macaron colour throughout, with shadows only as slightly darker tones of the same hue — nothing heavy, nothing muddy.
Pairs with
- Cut From the PictureThree stacked words knocked out of a photograph, filled with the picture's own colour, above the strip of image they were cut from. Three fields.
- Four Cards, One PersonOne person sits in a bare studio while four frosted-glass cards hover around them — intro, skills, contact, link — with their title set enormous behind their shoulders. Six fields.
- Four Quarters, One CrossOne flat colour, two hairlines crossing, a bright square at the intersection, and four corners each doing exactly one job. Six fields.