One Number, Three Bands
A black-and-gold countdown poster where one huge numeral holds the middle in clear air, and every other fact is said exactly once, in one of three bands. Six fields.
Two runs of the same template. Champagne gold lit from the upper left on warm near-black beside antique brass lit from the right on slate-blue — same three bands, same single numeral in clear air, and in both the corner with nothing to say stays empty.
Generated from this template with the fields shown above — five texts, each said once, and the upper right corner left empty rather than filled with a second copy of the title. The numeral holds the middle band alone with a wide ring of dark around it that nothing enters, and the gold reads as a lit surface: bright along the upper left of every stroke, shadowed along the lower right. The reference's own baseline is the contrast — it printed the event name twice, once as a corner mark and once as the headline, because its template splits a host into an organisation and a department and the model had nothing else to put there. Run-to-run quirks: the light shaft at the top varies in strength, and the unit sometimes sits tighter to the numeral than described.
Generated for this library
Input
Host Vibary
Event The First Live Build Session
Number 3 - days
When 18.07.2026 · online, doors at seven
Base Seats are free, and there are two hundred
Metal warm champagne gold lit upper left · near-black ground
Returned 1 poster · 2:3 · black and gold, centred, three bands
top VIBARY small in white serif at the upper left, and
nothing opposite it - the corner stays empty rather than
repeating the event name
the event title centred below in gold serif, a hairline
rule under it, THE FIRST LIVE BUILD SESSION in tracked
caps beneath
middle the numeral 3 alone, enormous, gold with light along its
upper left and shadow along its lower right, the word
days small at its shoulder - a wide ring of empty dark
around it that nothing crosses
base the date and place on one line, a hairline above them,
and the single closing line beneath in white
air the gap between each band is larger than any line of
type on the pageYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The host
- 2The event
- 3The number, and its unit
- 4The when and where
- 5The one line at the base
- 6The metal and the dark
One Number, Three Bands
Produce ONE image: a formal countdown poster in black and gold. 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 six lines only
- The host: {who is putting this on} e.g. Vibary
- The event: {what it is called} e.g. The First Live Build Session
- The number, and its unit: {a numeral, and days or hours} e.g. 3 — days
- The when and where: {a date, and a place} e.g. 18.07.2026 · online, doors at seven
- The one line at the base: {a single closing line} e.g. Seats are free, and there are two hundred
- The metal and the dark: {the gold's character, and the ground} e.g. warm champagne gold, lit from the upper left · a near-black brown ground with a faint fall of light from above
The say-it-once law
These posters carry several facts and no story, which makes them unusually easy to make redundant. The genre's templates split a host into an organisation and a department, and a title into a theme and a name, and the result prints the same words twice — once as a corner mark and once as the headline. It reads as a mistake because it is one.
Each fact appears exactly once, in one band, and nowhere else. The host is named at the top left. The event is named in the top band. The date is in the base band. If a corner has nothing of its own to say, it stays empty — an empty corner is composition; a repeated title is a fault.
Five texts and one numeral is the entire allowance:
- the host
- the event
- the numeral and its unit
- the date and place
- one closing line
There is no sixth. A QR code, a strapline, a sponsor row and a department name are how this poster becomes a flyer.
The three bands
The page divides into three horizontal bands with real emptiness between them — the gap between bands is wider than any line of type on the page. Hierarchy comes from that air, not from a ladder of gold sizes.
- Top band. The host small in white at the upper left. The event centred below it in gold, the largest type on the page after the numeral, with a hairline rule and a tracked-caps subtitle if the fields give one.
- Middle band. The numeral, alone. It is the largest thing on the poster by a wide margin, centred, with its unit set small at its shoulder. A clear ring of empty dark surrounds it — no frame, no ornament, no line enters that ring.
- Base band. The date and place on one line, a hairline above them, and the single closing line beneath in white.
The metal
Gold is a material, not a colour, and this is the difference between ceremony and cheapness:
- Light comes from one direction, named in the fields. Every gold surface is bright along the edge facing it and dark along the opposite edge, with the warm mid-tone between.
- The numeral shows this most: a bright rim on its upper left, a deep shadow on its lower right, and a soft warm face.
- Flat yellow with a gradient over it is not gold. Neither is a yellow with a white outline.
The dark
- A near-black ground, slightly warm, with a faint fall of light from above and a slow vignette toward the corners.
- Sparse fine particles catching the light, and at most a few thin vertical light-strands falling from the top edge.
- Nothing textured, nothing patterned, no bokeh field, no lens flare.
Never
- ✕ any fact stated in two places
- ✕ a sixth text block, a QR code, a sponsor row, a department line
- ✕ bands packed together with no air between them
- ✕ flat yellow standing in for gold, or gold with no light direction
- ✕ red, or any third colour
- ✕ ornamental frames, corner flourishes, or a border around the numeral
The result
A poster with the manners of an invitation: one number held in clear air, five short facts each said once, and gold that behaves like a lit surface — legible from across a foyer and quiet enough to belong there.
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. Say each fact once — if the host and the event share words, cut the overlap before generating rather than after.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Check by covering the middle band. What remains should be five short texts with obvious air between them; if it reads as a list, the bands were not kept apart.
What you swap
- The host
- Vibary
- The event
- The First Live Build Session
- The number, and its unit
- 3 — days
- The when and where
- 18.07.2026 · online, doors at seven
- The one line at the base
- Seats are free, and there are two hundred
- The metal and the dark
- warm champagne gold, lit from the upper left · a near-black brown ground with a faint fall of light from above
Before it runs
- A number worth enlarging. Three days is a poster; forty-seven days is a spreadsheet.
- One host and one event, each said once. Splitting a host into an organisation and a department is how these posters end up printing their own title twice.
- Nothing else to add. Five texts and a number is the whole allowance; a sixth text is what turns ceremony into a flyer.
When to reach for it
For the week before something formal — an awards night, a conference, a launch, a gala. The register is ceremony rather than sale, and the genre's two failures are saying the same thing twice and stacking eight lines with no air between them.
What changes
- One page in three bands with real emptiness between them, so hierarchy comes from space rather than from eight sizes of gold type.
- The numeral owns the middle band alone, with a wide clear ring around it that nothing enters.
- Every fact appears exactly once — the poster names the host, the event and the date in one place each, which is the specific thing these templates get wrong.
- Gold behaves like gold: bright along one edge, dark on the opposite, warm in the middle, instead of a flat yellow fill called gold.
- A capped number of texts, so the poster cannot quietly grow a ninth line the way real ones do.
Pairs with
- Five Layers, One PosterA loud cut-and-paste event poster where the materials are stacked in a fixed order — ground, shapes, photograph, ornament, type — so the noise has a structure under it. Seven fields.
- Four Textures, One FrameA loud Memphis-style event poster bordered by repeating type, where each geometric texture belongs to exactly one kind of element — dots to figures, stripes to props, grid to the floor. Seven fields.
- Halftone Meets PhotographA travel-poster collage where a dotted field above and a real photograph below meet along one seam — and the dots cross into the picture rather than stopping at its edge. Six fields.