Lettering That Spells What You Asked For

What it is for

How to ask for text inside a generated image so it comes out as words: the shortest string that does the job, quoted once, explicitly placed, and proofread backwards at full size. Use it for posters, signage, packaging and any image whose words a client will read. It prevents the finished piece that is perfect except for one misspelled headline nobody caught in the thumbnail.

The skill Copy

Text inside a generated image is drawn as part of the picture, not typeset,
so it can come back misspelled while everything around it is perfect. The
amount of text is the variable you control: every extra word is another
chance for one of them to be wrong.

Rules that change the outcome:

- Ask for the shortest string that does the job. A headline, not a headline
  plus a subtitle plus a price list. Set the rest in a layout tool, where
  characters stay characters.
- Quote the exact string, once. Repeating the words elsewhere in the prompt
  produces a second copy of them somewhere in the picture.
- Say where it sits and how large. Text you did not place goes wherever the
  model puts it, which is usually across the subject you cared about.
- One text element per image. Two competing strings is how you get both of
  them wrong.
- Test the hard characters before you build a layout around them. Accents,
  non-Latin scripts and long numbers break first, and what renders correctly
  today may not survive the next model version.

A prompt shape that works:

  A [style] poster of [subject], [where the subject sits in the frame].
  The only text in the image is the headline "[EXACT WORDS]", placed
  [where], in [type description]. No other text, letters or numbers anywhere.

Proofread before you use it, at full size, letter by letter, reading the
string backwards so your eye cannot autocorrect it. Doubled letters and
n-for-m both survive normal reading.

If the words come back wrong twice, stop generating. Ask for the same image
with a clean empty band where the text belongs, and set the type yourself.
That takes five minutes and it is correct every time.

Failure this prevents: a finished poster that is perfect except for one
misspelled word, found by the client and not by you.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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