Two Lines Through a Word
Black on bone paper: one enormous geometric word with two hairlines running off its letters to the edges of the page, and everything else pushed into a corner. Five fields.
Two runs of the same template. A struck-through word for a design library beside FIGURE for a life drawing night class, printed on warm newsprint in a single dense black.
Generated from this template with the fields shown above — both hairlines grow out of the letterforms rather than crossing them, one dropping from the M and one rising from the O to the page edges, and the credit sits directly above a black block matched to its width. Run-to-run quirks: which letters the lines attach to shifts with the word, and the ratio comes back taller than the 3:2 asked for. The bone paper, the two-colour limit and the grid alignment hold every time.
Generated for this library
Input
Subject Vibary's brand poster
Word MOTION
Credit VIBARY
Label interface motion / 2026 spring release
Stock matte bone-white paper, fine fibre, pure black ink
Returned 1 poster · 3:2 · black on bone · mostly empty
paper matte bone white, fine natural fibre visible, no
gradient anywhere
word MOTION set enormous in geometric sans, even strokes,
crisp corners, roughly sixty percent of the page
line 1 a hairline dropping from the top-left corner of the M
straight down to the bottom edge, reading as part of
the letter rather than laid over it
line 2 a second hairline rising from the top of the O and
running clean to the top edge
corner VIBARY set below right of the word in
medium sans, tracking open; beneath it a solid black
block holding interface motion / 2026 spring release
in small white type, the block matching the credit's
width
grid every element aligned to the same invisible left edge
empty more than half the page carries nothing at allYou fill in 5 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The subject
- 2The word
- 3The credit
- 4The label block
- 5The paper and ink
Two Lines Through a Word
Produce ONE image: a minimal modernist poster, one word, two hairlines. 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 subject: {what this poster is for} e.g. Vibary's brand poster
- The word: {one word, five to seven characters} e.g. MOTION
- The credit: {a studio or brand name} e.g. VIBARY
- The label block: {a short line for the black block} e.g. interface motion / 2026 spring release
- The paper and ink: {the stock and its colour, and the ink colour} e.g. matte bone-white paper with fine fibre, pure black ink
The page
- Golden-section composition with large areas of empty paper.
- The ground is a matte off-white stock with a very fine natural fibre texture — the look of good uncoated paper. No gradient, no noise, no vignette, no additional texture.
- High contrast, two colours only: the ink and the paper.
The word
- One word, set enormous in a strongly geometric sans — even stroke weight, crisp corners, no optical flourishes.
- It occupies roughly sixty percent of the page's visual weight.
- Pure ink colour, no effects on the glyphs.
The two lines
This is the whole idea of the poster, and it must be exact:
- One hairline starts at the top-left corner of the word's first character and runs vertically down to the bottom edge of the page.
- A second hairline starts at the top of the word's second-to-last character and runs vertically up to the top edge of the page.
- Both are very fine, in the ink colour.
- Each must merge with its letter's own stroke so it reads as an extension of the letterform, not a line drawn over the top. No visible join, no overlap, no gap.
The corner block
Placed together in the area below and to the right of the word:
- First, the credit: medium-sized sans, lighter in weight than the word, with open letterspacing.
- Beneath it, a solid filled rectangle in the ink colour, holding the label text in small type in the paper colour.
- The rectangle's width matches the width of the credit line above it.
- Both are left-aligned to each other.
The grid
- Every element — word, lines, credit, block — aligns to the same invisible grid.
- The composition is stable and asymmetric, with dense information in one region and large emptiness everywhere else.
Every part must
- ✓ align to the grid
- ✓ stay in the two stated colours
- ✓ keep the hairlines truly fine and truly merged with the letters
- ✓ leave more than half the page empty
- ✓ read as printed rather than rendered
Never
- ✕ colour, gradients, shadows, or glows
- ✕ decorative elements, rules, frames, icons or imagery
- ✕ lines drawn across the letters rather than growing from them
- ✕ the credit and block misaligned or different widths
- ✕ a clean digital ground with no paper fibre
- ✕ text beyond the word, the credit and the label
The result
A poster that says one word and then stops talking: two hairlines carrying the letterforms out to the edges, a small block of information in the corner, and a great deal of good paper doing nothing at all.
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 word's first and second-to-last letters have strong verticals — T, R, M, N, H, I, L all work.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Change the word and the label to run a series; the two lines land differently on every word, so the family stays interesting.
What you swap
- The subject
- Vibary's brand poster
- The word
- MOTION
- The credit
- VIBARY
- The label block
- interface motion / 2026 spring release
- The paper and ink
- matte bone-white paper with fine fibre, pure black ink
Before it runs
- A single word, five to seven characters. The two lines need a first letter and a second-to-last letter with usable verticals.
- A credit and a label short enough to sit on one line each — they are a footnote, not a paragraph.
- The discipline to leave more than half the page empty.
When to reach for it
For studios and makers who want the page to look considered rather than decorated. Two lines and a lot of empty paper, which is the cheapest luxury in graphic design.
What changes
- A finished poster in black on bone-white paper with visible fibre, and nothing else on it.
- One very large geometric sans word carries the page, taking about sixty percent of it.
- Two hairlines extend off specific letters — one down from the first, one up from the second to last — running clean to the page edges as if the letterforms grew them.
- The credit and a small black label block sit together in the lower right, left-aligned to each other, and nowhere else.
- Everything snaps to an invisible grid, so the enormous empty areas read as composed rather than unfinished.
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.