# Artificial Lexicon

> A visual vocabulary for AI image prompting. 2,773 prompt words across 15 themed walls, each with a plain-language note on what it does to an image. Plus guides, a prompt builder, and a printable cheat sheet. Works with Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and the chat image models (Nano Banana, GPT-Image).

Every word on a wall carries a short note. Copy words straight into a prompt, or use the builder to assemble one slot by slot. No accounts, no trackers, fonts self-hosted.

## Prompt word walls

- [Art Styles & Movements (100 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/styles.html): From ukiyo-e to vaporwave. One style word changes the whole image.
- [Mythical Creatures (375 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/creatures.html): 375 beasts from 25 mythologies for character design.
- [Colors & Palettes (72 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/colors.html): 47 palettes and 25 single colors, each with an example image.
- [Textures & Materials (74 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/materials.html): 74 textures from bark to bokeh, each with an example image.
- [Lighting & Atmosphere (110 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/lighting.html): 110 light sources, methods, and styles. The difference between flat and cinematic.
- [Composition & Camera (117 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/composition.html): 117 camera, focus, and composition words the model treats as instructions.
- [Clothing & Fashion (662 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/clothing.html): 662 clothing words: contemporary wear plus men's and women's formal.
- [Nature: Plants & Biomes (444 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/nature.html): 444 plants, trees, biomes, and terrains for worlds with real geography.
- [Architecture Through the Ages (104 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/architecture.html): 104 civilizations from ancient Egypt to Neoclassical Russia.
- [Photography & Camera (151 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/photography.html): Lenses, film stocks, shot types. Camera words set the frame.
- [Emotions & Expressions (120 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/emotions.html): Expressions, moods, body language. One word changes the whole face.
- [Weather & Atmosphere (120 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/weather.html): Rain, fog, golden hour, monsoon. Weather words light the scene for free.
- [Interiors & Rooms (110 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/interiors.html): Rooms, furnishings, design styles. One word builds the whole set.
- [Food & Plating (100 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/food.html): Dishes, plating, table scenes. Name the dish and the light.
- [Vehicles & Transport (114 words)](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/vehicles.html): Steam trains, muscle cars, airships. The vehicle sets the era.

## Tools

- [Prompt Builder — make your own prompt](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-builder.html): Build a prompt slot by slot: subject, style, lighting, color, mood, camera, weather, texture. Works in Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and the chat image models.
- [Prompt Cheat Sheet — one page](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-cheatsheet.html): The prompt skeleton, the parameters that matter, quick fixes, and ten words per wall. One page, printable, free.
- [Tools](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/tools.html): Every tool family on one shelf: Midjourney flags, Stable Diffusion settings, the chat image models' plain sentences, and the prompt builder and cheat sheet.
- [Midjourney](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/midjourney.html): How the word walls plug into Midjourney: prompt anatomy, the parameters that matter, and which walls to raid for what.
- [Stable Diffusion](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/stable-diffusion.html): How the word walls plug into Stable Diffusion: weighting syntax, negative prompts, and where local generation differs from Midjourney.
- [LLM Prompting](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/llm-prompting.html): Prompting text models: ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek, and reasoning models. Guides on conversation structure, instructions, and examples.

## Guides

- [100 Ways To Make Money With MidJourney](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/100-ways-to-make-money.html): One hundred ways to turn Midjourney image work into services, products, lessons, and media projects.
- [15 Tips to Not Suck at MidJourney](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/15-tips-midjourney.html): Fifteen Midjourney tips for prompt style, parameters, color, perspective, negative prompts, texture, and iteration.
- [AI in Art: Why Fear Misinterprets the Future of Creative Expression](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/ai-in-art.html): AI gives artists another tool for study, experimentation, and expression while copyright law and creative practice continue to change.
- [How to Create Animals Using Stable Diffusion](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/animals-stable-diffusion.html): A beginner guide to making animal images with Stable Diffusion, from setup and prompt structure to styles, examples, negative prompts, and inpainting.
- [Ancient Civilizations: Architecture for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/architecture-ancient.html): Study ancient building materials, forms, and engineering terms for image prompts. Use each section as a clean reference when you need a civilization to shape the frame.
- [Baroque Civilizations: Architecture for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/architecture-baroque.html): This guide maps Baroque-era architecture across kingdoms and empires. Each section gives prompt terms for form, ornament, materials, and engineering.
- [Early Middle Ages Kingdoms: Architecture for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/architecture-early-middle-ages.html): This guide collects early medieval kingdoms and their architectural traits. Use the materials, forms, and techniques as prompt parts for Midjourney scenes.
- [High Middle Ages Kingdoms: Architecture for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/architecture-high-middle-ages.html): This guide covers kingdoms and empires from the high medieval period. Each section gives prompt language for materials, building types, and construction details.
- [Late Middle Ages Kingdoms: Architecture for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/architecture-late-middle-ages.html): This guide gathers late medieval architecture by kingdom and dynasty. Use the lists to steer structure, detail, materials, and regional style in AI art prompts.
- [Neoclassical Architecture by Country for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/architecture-neoclassical.html): This guide organizes neoclassical architecture by country. Use it to build prompts around public buildings, materials, columns, interiors, and regional variants.
- [Aspect ratios: the shape decides](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/aspect-ratios.html): Five frame shapes and when to use them, with --ar flags, pixel pairs, and plain-language sizes for Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and the chat image models.
- [30 Autumn Prompts for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/autumn-prompts.html): Thirty copy-ready autumn prompts: harvest, fog, forests, rain, cozy rooms, and Halloween night. They paste into Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or a chat image model.
- [Prompting chat image models](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/chat-image-models.html): Image models moved into the chat apps. How prompting Nano Banana and GPT-Image differs from Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and how the walls still feed them.
- [Christmas Abstract Art Prompts](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/christmas-abstract-art.html): Fifteen copy-friendly Stable Diffusion prompts for Christmas abstract art, from expressionism and color fields to futurism and constructivism.
- [30 Christmas Prompts for Stable Diffusion](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/christmas-prompts.html): Thirty copy-friendly Christmas prompts for Stable Diffusion, grouped by cartoon, illustration, realistic, handmade, and abstract holiday styles.
- [How to Master Color in AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/color-mastery.html): A beginner guide to using color theory, themed palettes, and named colors in Midjourney and Stable Diffusion prompts.
- [How to Create Coloring Book Pages with Stable Diffusion](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/coloring-book-pages.html): A beginner guide to making coloring book pages with Stable Diffusion, from prompt structure to negative prompts and diffusion steps.
- [How I Use Colors, Palettes, and Patterns](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/colors-palettes-patterns.html): How to use color, palettes, gradients, patterns, shades, tints, and tones in AI art and design work.
- [Composition, Color, and Style](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/composition-color-style.html): A rebuilt Stable Diffusion guide from the original Artificial Lexicon site on composition, color themes, art styles, and prompt structure.
- [The same character, every image](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/consistent-characters.html): Keep one character recognizable across a whole set: a fixed character block, Midjourney character reference, Stable Diffusion seeds and LoRAs, and the chat-model edit loop.
- [Fix the picture: symptom to cure](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/fix-the-picture.html): The image came back wrong. Match the symptom to the cure: ignored subjects, twin heads, plastic skin, mangled hands, muddy color, drifting style, garbled text.
- [Making Greeting Cards with AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/greeting-cards.html): Use AI art prompts to make greeting card designs with room for a handwritten note and a reliable print layout.
- [Halloween Prompts for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/halloween-prompts.html): Halloween palettes, subjects, and styles for AI art: jack-o'-lanterns, witches, haunted houses, and vintage postcard looks, ready to copy.
- [Introduction to Pop Art in the AI Era](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/intro-to-pop-art.html): A step-by-step introduction to pop art prompts for Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
- [Using ChatGPT to write image prompts](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/llm-image-prompts.html): Turn a chat model into your prompt writer: give it the recipe, feed it wall words, ask for variations, and make it critique your drafts.
- [Mastering AI Conversations](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/mastering-ai-conversations.html): A practical guide to prompting ChatGPT, Claude, and Deepseek with clear requests, useful context, examples, and revision.
- [Mastering Art Styles in Stable Diffusion](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/mastering-art-styles.html): Learn how art style terms shape Stable Diffusion prompts across art movements, character design, mediums, and examples.
- [Mastering Lighting in Midjourney](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/mastering-lighting.html): Use sunlight, moonlight, LEDs, and neon to control mood, depth, color, and focus in Midjourney prompts.
- [Mastering Patterns in AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/mastering-patterns.html): A guide to using patterns in Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, with natural, fabric, geometric, cultural, abstract, and practical pattern ideas.
- [Mastering Prompt Engineering in Stable Diffusion](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/mastering-prompt-engineering.html): A Stable Diffusion guide from RasputinKaiser on subjects, action, color, style, prompt construction, and weights.
- [Mastering Textures and Materials](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/mastering-textures.html): A guide to using textures and materials in Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, with natural, fabric, everyday, sculptural, and abstract surface ideas.
- [Negative prompts: what to leave out](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/negative-prompts.html): How negative prompts work in Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, what belongs in one, and why the forty-term boilerplate hurts more than it helps.
- [How to Make Pop Art Portraits in MidJourney](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/pop-art-portraits.html): A beginner guide to making pop art portraits in Midjourney, from subject description and clothing to style, color, background, and final prompt polish.
- [Practical o3 Prompting](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/practical-o3-prompting.html): A guide to prompting o3 and other reasoning models with structured tasks, formats, tools, review, and examples.
- [Prompt Engineering, Properly](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompt-engineering.html): How a prompt actually steers an image model: artistic language, mood, composition, and dynamic elements, with worked examples.
- [Prompting AI Video: What Carries Over](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-ai-video.html): The word walls work in video prompts too. What transfers from image prompting, what motion and camera add, and worked prompts for Veo, Sora, and Kling.
- [Prompting Clothing and Fashion](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-clothing.html): How clothing words set era, class, and character in AI art, with worked prompts from the 662-word clothing wall.
- [Prompting Mythical Creatures](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-creatures.html): How creature names steer AI art: famous beasts, obscure ones, and culture-matched scenes, with worked prompts from the 375-creature wall.
- [Prompting Emotions and Expressions](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-emotions.html): Use emotion, expression, posture, and atmosphere words to shape people and scenes in AI art.
- [Prompting Food and Plating](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-food.html): A plain guide to building food prompts with dish, ingredient, plating, and food photography words from the Food wall.
- [Prompting Interiors and Rooms](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-interiors.html): Learn how room, design style, and fixture words can build a coherent interior scene for free.
- [Prompting Nature: Plants and Biomes](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-nature.html): How plant and biome words give AI art real geography, with worked prompts from the 444-word nature wall.
- [Prompting Photography and Camera Terms](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-photography.html): Use camera, lens, film, and exposure words to give AI art a clear photographic direction.
- [Prompting Portraits That Hold Up](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-portraits.html): How to prompt AI portraits: pick the frame, light the face, choose one expression, and keep the style from eating the subject. With worked prompts.
- [Prompting Vehicles and Transport](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-vehicles.html): A plain guide to building transport prompts with vehicle, rail, water, air, and fantasy travel words from the Vehicles wall.
- [Prompting Weather and Atmosphere](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/prompting-weather.html): Learn how weather, time, season, and atmosphere words can light and dress a scene for free.
- [50,000 Images Since VQGAN: What Midjourney v7 Gets Right](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/since-vqgan-days.html): After four years and more than 50,000 images, a hands-on look at Midjourney v7 for product photography, its strengths, limits, and useful workflows.
- [Spring Pastel Colors for AI Art & Design](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/spring-pastel-colors.html): A practical spring pastel color reference for softer prompts, spring palettes, and cleaner AI image design.
- [Your first good prompt](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/start-here.html): Write your first good Midjourney or Stable Diffusion prompt in five minutes: one subject, four words, one change at a time.
- [30 Summer Prompts for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/summer-prompts.html): Thirty copy-ready summer prompts: beaches, golden evenings, gardens, food, night festivals, and storms. They paste into Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or a chat image model.
- [System prompts, plainly](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/system-prompts.html): What a system prompt is, what belongs in one, and how to write rules the model can actually follow. With two working examples.
- [Using Materials in AI Art on Midjourney](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/using-materials.html): Use material terms in Midjourney prompts, then control how surfaces interact, age, scale, and carry cultural context.
- [How I Use My List of Midjourney Styles](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/using-the-styles-list.html): Art movements as prompt directions: what each style asks for, how to test styles on one subject, and how to pair a movement with a medium word in any image tool.
- [15 Valentine's Day Art Print Prompts for Couples](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/valentines-art-prints.html): Fifteen Valentine's Day art print prompts for couples, using art movements from Impressionism and Art Deco to Gothic and Minimalism.
- [15 Valentine's Day Card Design Prompts](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/valentines-card-prompts.html): Fifteen Valentine's Day card design prompts for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, with ideas for romance, animals, flowers, and more.
- [15 Valentine's Day Craft Ideas with AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/valentines-craft-ideas.html): Fifteen Valentine's Day craft ideas that use AI art, from cards and portraits to stickers, coasters, tote bags, and a jar of wishes.
- [15 Valentine's Day Phone Background Prompts](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/valentines-phone-backgrounds.html): Fifteen Valentine's Day phone background prompts for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, from patterns and flowers to city scenes and stars.
- [30 Winter Prompts for AI Art](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/winter-prompts.html): Thirty copy-ready winter prompts: snowfields, frost, aurora nights, warm rooms, city slush, and animals in the cold. They paste into Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or a chat image model.
- [Writing the subject: what's in the picture](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/guides/writing-subjects.html): The subject is the least-taught slot in a prompt. One focal point, a verb, concrete counts, and spatial anchors, with bad-to-good rewrites.

## Machine-readable

- [Full vocabulary, plain text](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/llms-full.txt): every word with its note, one file
- [words.json](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/api/words.json): the same as structured JSON, with a content-hash version field
- [Glossary](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/glossary.html): every word A to Z on one page
- Per-wall markdown: each wall page has a .md twin, e.g. https://www.artificiallexicon.com/prompt-words/styles.md
- [Agents & developers](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/for-agents.html): how to use these endpoints

## Optional

- [RSS feed](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/feed.xml): new guides as they publish
- [About](https://www.artificiallexicon.com/about.html): what the site is and who runs it