The Second Line Blurs
Two words stacked on rough art paper, sharing a stretched first stroke, where the lower one dissolves left to right like the ink ran out. Five fields.
Two runs of the same template. A two-word title where the lower one blurs beside STILL / MOVING for an optics lab — the blur is the argument in both, and the grey has gone laboratory-cold.
Generated from this template with the fields shown above — the stretched M runs down through both lines as one shared stroke, the lower word dissolves steadily left to right until the final letter is gone, the upper word stays razor sharp, and the paper tooth reads across the whole frame. Run-to-run quirks: how far the lower word shifts right varies, and the blur sometimes starts one letter earlier than described. The shared stroke, the two colours and the sharp corner line hold every time.
Generated for this library
Input
Words upper MAKE / lower MOVE
Corner VIBARY.AI
Paper warm bone-white rough art paper
Ink deep charcoal, almost black
Letterform geometric modern grotesque, very heavy
Returned 1 poster · 4:5 · two colours · paper tooth visible
upper MAKE across the upper middle in heavy geometric caps,
razor sharp, letterspacing open
share the M stretched down the left edge so its vertical runs
into the M of the lower word - the two lines held
together by one stroke
lower MOVE sitting under it, shifted right, sharp at the M
and dissolving steadily across to the E, which is gone
into a soft smear
paper bone white with fine grain, matte, the tooth catching
across the whole frame
corner VIBARY.AI bottom right, tiny, sharp, same charcoal,
about a tenth of the title's size
nothing no rules, no marks, no ornament, no second colourYou fill in 5 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The two words
- 2The corner line
- 3The paper
- 4The ink
- 5The letterform
The Second Line Blurs
Produce ONE image: a minimal two-word typographic poster where the second line dissolves. 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 two words: {an upper word and a lower word} e.g. upper: MAKE — lower: MOVE
- The corner line: {a short label, a lab name, a credit} e.g. VIBARY.AI
- The paper: {the background colour and its surface} e.g. warm bone-white rough art paper
- The ink: {the text colour} e.g. deep charcoal, almost black
- The letterform: {the character of the typeface} e.g. geometric modern grotesque, very heavy
The page
- Portrait 4:5.
- The background is rough art paper in the stated colour: a matte, fine-grained, slightly toothy surface, as though printed on specialty stock. The texture is visible across the whole frame.
- Nothing else is on the page. No rules, no marks, no ornament, no graphic elements — only the two words, the corner line, and the paper.
The two words
- Set in the stated letterform, as a heavy sans — full-bodied, thick, with roomy letterspacing and no effects applied to the glyphs themselves.
- Stacked in two lines, deliberately offset from each other rather than aligned.
- The first character of the upper word is stretched vertically so that it extends down into the position of the lower word's first character, and the two share that vertical stroke. This overlap is what locks the two lines into a single mark, and it is required.
- The upper word, apart from that stretched first character, stays completely sharp — crisp edges, full contrast.
The dissolve
- The lower word is shifted horizontally to the right relative to the upper one.
- It blurs progressively from left to right. Its first character is sharp, or nearly so; the blur increases steadily across the word; its final character is completely soft and dissolved.
- The blur is a smooth gaussian softness, like ink bleeding into paper or a lens losing focus. It is not motion streaking, not a double exposure, not a drop shadow.
The corner line
- Bottom right of the frame.
- Roughly one tenth the size of the main words.
- Light-weight sans, completely sharp, in the same ink colour.
- Its sharpness against the dissolving word is part of the effect.
Colour
- Exactly two: the ink and the paper.
- They should sit in soft contrast — not pure black on pure white, but close enough to read cleanly.
- No third colour anywhere, no tint, no highlight.
Every part must
- ✓ sit on visible paper texture
- ✓ keep the upper word sharp and the lower word dissolving
- ✓ preserve the shared vertical stroke between the lines
- ✓ leave generous empty paper around the type
- ✓ stay in two colours
Never
- ✕ a third colour, a gradient in the ink, or a coloured ground
- ✕ blur applied to the whole image, or to the upper word
- ✕ motion streaks, ghosting, chromatic fringing or duplicated copies of the text
- ✕ decorative elements, rules, frames or shapes
- ✕ a clean digital background with no paper texture
- ✕ text beyond the two words and the corner line
The result
A poster that does one thing extremely well: two words holding hands by a shared stroke, one of them walking off into the paper — and enough empty stock around them that the trick has room to land.
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. Check the upper word starts with a letter that has a strong vertical — F, E, I, T, L, H, M all work.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Swap the paper and ink to change the temperature completely: bone and charcoal reads as a gallery, black and acid reads as a club.
What you swap
- The two words
- upper: MAKE — lower: MOVE
- The corner line
- VIBARY.AI
- The paper
- warm bone-white rough art paper
- The ink
- deep charcoal, almost black
- The letterform
- geometric modern grotesque, very heavy
Before it runs
- Two short words that can stack. Their first letters need to be able to share a stroke, so a tall straight letter on top helps enormously.
- A reason for the fade. It should mean something — a sound dying, a thing leaving, a signal dropping — or it reads as decoration.
- Two colours and no more. The whole effect is carried by contrast and texture.
When to reach for it
When one word should feel like it is fading, arriving, or being heard from a distance. Two colours and one trick, which is why it reads as a designer's decision rather than a filter.
What changes
- A finished 4:5 poster with nothing on it but two words and the tooth of the paper.
- The first letter of the upper word stretches down to meet the lower word, so the two lines share one stroke and lock into a single mark.
- The lower word blurs progressively left to right, sharp at its start and completely dissolved at its end.
- Everything above the blur stays razor-crisp, so the softness reads as intentional rather than as a badly saved file.
- One tiny sharp line in the bottom-right corner sets the scale for the whole thing.
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.
- Every Letter a ThingOne 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.
- 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.