Art Styles & Movements
One style word changes palette, texture, era, and mood at once. Pick one movement and one medium. Stacking five styles confuses the model. Click words to build a prompt in the tray.
Starter prompts click to copy
The words in pictures 18 words illustrated
Classic movements 14
Each of these sets composition, palette, and subject bias at once. The strongest words on this wall.
Modern & digital 14
Internet aesthetics. Use them for posters, album art, and anything that should read current, or dated on purpose.
Illustration & print 12
Medium words. They set the surface of the image. Pair one with any movement above.
Photography & lens looks 10
Turn “a picture of” into “a photograph of”. The model treats these as camera instructions, so keep them out of painterly prompts.
Theme worlds: the original 50 50
Whole-image concepts from the article that started this site. Each sets subject, mood, and style in one phrase. Hover a chip, or tap Learn, for what it does.
Grew out of “50 Prompt Keywords for MidJourney and Stable Diffusion”, originally published on Medium. Expanded and reorganized for this wall.