Swiss Grid Poster
An International Typographic Style poster — a declared column count, every edge snapped to it, and the title as the largest thing on the page. Six fields.
We made two examples: a six-column poster and a five-column one, each with a single accent, the shape cropped by the top margin in the first and the left margin in the second. Both carry the same three sizes of information and the same large empty area, and read clearly as one system.
The title is the largest thing on the page, set flush left across several columns. The sentence sits at about a third of that size and the facts sit in one tracked line at the foot. A single coloured shape fills the free columns, cropped by a margin, and one area is left truly empty. Before judging the design, check three things: the title is there, it is spelled right, and it is the biggest thing. If any fails, or the layout does not fill the canvas, generate again.
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Input
Announces an exhibition of interfaces that were described
rather than drawn
Title SAID AND MADE
Second A season of work from the vibe library
Facts VIBARY · 2026.03.14-05.02 · THE LIBRARY DISTRICT
Columns six; a quarter-circle arc in the accent spanning
columns four to six, a stack of thin rules in
column one
Accent vermilion
Returned 1 poster · 3:4 · white, black, grey, one vermilion
grid six columns, even gutters, one margin all round -
every element's left and right edge on a boundary
title SAID AND MADE across four columns, the largest thing
on the page, flush left, tight leading
levels the second line at roughly a third of the title, the
facts smaller again in one tracked line
shape the arc filling columns four to six, cropped by the
top margin, flat vermilion with no gradient
space the upper right left entirely empty, which is what
makes the rest read as deliberateYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1What it announces
- 2The title
- 3The second line
- 4The facts
- 5The columns, and what sits in them
- 6The accent
Swiss Grid Poster
What this makes
An International Typographic Style poster — a declared column count, every edge snapped to it, and the title as the largest thing on the page. Six fields.
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. Choose the column count deliberately in the fifth — four, five or six — and say which columns the visual element spans. A grid nobody counted is not a grid.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Check the title is actually on the page and correctly spelled before anything else. A run of this style returned a handsome arrangement of coloured rectangles with the title missing entirely, which is the failure this template is named after.
What you swap
- What it announces
- an exhibition of interfaces that were described rather than drawn
- The title
- SAID AND MADE
- The second line
- A season of work from the vibe library
- The facts
- VIBARY · 2026.03.14—05.02 · THE LIBRARY DISTRICT
- The columns, and what sits in them
- six columns; a quarter-circle arc in the accent spanning columns four to six, and a stack of thin rules in column one
- The accent
- vermilion
Before it runs
- A short title. This style sets it enormous, and a long one either shrinks to ordinary size or breaks the grid it is supposed to demonstrate.
- Facts worth setting small. The third level is where the style earns its calm, and a poster with nothing to put there ends up padding it.
- One accent you will use sparingly. Two accents turn a rational poster into a decorative one, which is the opposite of the point.
When to reach for it
For anything institutional and calm: an exhibition, a lecture series, a course, a report, a season. Templates in this style say 'establish a strict grid' without ever stating a column count, so 'strict' ends up as an adjective doing a rule's job.
What changes
- One rational poster: flat white, black and grey with a single accent, asymmetric, and quiet enough to belong on an institution's wall.
- The column count is a field rather than an assumption, and every element edge lands on a column boundary — a rule you can verify by drawing the columns back over the result.
- The title is the largest element on the page and is required to be present and legible, which is the check this genre most often fails.
- Three information levels in a stated size relationship, so the poster reads in a fixed order.
- Full bleed to the frame — the poster is the canvas, not a picture of a poster sitting inside one.
Pairs with
- Barcode PosterA barcode poster in two colours — with the code built on a base module, guard bars and a numeral row, so it reads as a scanned object rather than a stripe field. Five fields.
- Photo Type Overlay PosterA photograph with type laid over it — held to one typeface, three sizes fixed by ratio, and one accent, so the poster reads as designed rather than assembled. Five fields.
- 3D Character Screen BreakoutA soft-3D character coming out of a screen — with the crossing proved: named parts behind the plane, named parts through it, and the surface visibly giving way. Five fields.