Minimal Cross-Divided Layout
One flat colour, two hairlines crossing, a bright square at the intersection, and four corners each doing exactly one job. Six fields.
We made two examples: a quartered cover for Vibary and a yearbook for urban beekeepers in wax cream and honey amber. The cross holds; the four quarters tell someone else's year.
Two hairlines cross off centre, a bright square sits exactly on the intersection, and each quarter does one job. The flat ground, the four-colour limit and the steep scale of sizes hold every time. The crossing tends to drift closer to the centre than asked, and the corner mark can come out as a bracket. Double-check what you type in the title, especially if you split it over two lines: the picture prints it exactly as written.
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Input
Subject Vibary's spring release brochure
Corners VIBARY · 2026 / SPRING · interface motion · vibary.ai
Title VIBE / LIBRARY
Colours deep indigo ground, cream type, pale slate rule,
bright coral square
Returned 1 cover · one flat colour · a cross through it
ground deep indigo, edge to edge, completely flat
cross one hairline vertical and one hairline horizontal in
pale slate, meeting a little above and left of centre
anchor a small coral square sitting on the crossing point
upper l VIBARY in small cream caps, tracking open
upper r 2026 over SPRING, two short lines stacked, same size
lower l VIBE over LIBRARY, enormous cream caps, the second
line pushed right of the first, a small coral block
beside the V
lower r interface motion · vibary.ai on two lines, small, with
a tiny corner mark at the very edge
nothing no gradient, no shadow, no texture, no fifth colourYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The subject
- 2Upper left
- 3Upper right
- 4The big title
- 5Lower right
- 6The colours
Minimal Cross-Divided Layout
What this makes
One flat colour, two hairlines crossing, a bright square at the intersection, and four corners each doing exactly one job. Six fields.
Produce ONE image: a minimal cover divided by a cross. Follow every
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 six FIELDS lines. Keep the three small corners genuinely short — they are counterweights, not content.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the cover.
- Run a series by changing only the ground colour and the title. Ten issues in ten colours still read as one family.
What you swap
- The subject
- Vibary's spring release brochure
- Upper left
- VIBARY
- Upper right
- 2026 / SPRING
- The big title
- VIBE / LIBRARY
- Lower right
- interface motion · vibary.ai
- The colours
- deep indigo ground, cream type, pale slate rule, bright coral for the square and the title block
Before it runs
- A title that splits into two lines. It gets set enormous, and a single long line will not fit the lower-left quarter.
- Something for all four corners. An empty quarter collapses the structure the whole design rests on.
- One ground, two supports, one accent. Adding a fifth colour is the only way to make this layout look cheap.
When to reach for it
For a brochure front, a portfolio cover, a series that has to stay recognisable across a dozen issues. The cross does the work, so the only decisions left are the colour and the words.
What changes
- A finished cover on one saturated flat colour, with no texture, gradient or ornament anywhere.
- A thin vertical and a thin horizontal line cross the page, cutting it into four quarters that each hold one fixed kind of information.
- A small bright square sits at the crossing point, anchoring the whole layout and tying to the accent beside the title.
- The lower left carries a very large two-line title, deliberately offset, with a small colour block at its first character.
- Type does everything: one sans family, sizes ranging from enormous to tiny, no decorative faces and no effects.
Pairs with
- 8-Bit Sticker Title CoverAn 8-bit title in white on a dark pixel-grid screen, with three neon sticker tags stuck crooked underneath and a hand-drawn face in the corner. Five fields.
- Black Streetwear Title CoverA street-cool cover style — pure black, film grain, a two-voice title in heavy caps over graffiti script, ring text, orbit lines, a signature. Nine fields; all white, all loud.
- Bold Word & Tag PillsA very heavy word dead centre, a name and a year balanced beneath it, and a row of filled tag pills locked to the title's exact width. Five fields.