Chrome ExtensionIdeogram Prompt Generator
Generate optimized prompts for Ideogram 4.0 — the open-weight model that renders text inside images better than anything else. Built for logos, posters, t-shirts, thumbnails, and typography, with quoted-text rules, proper negative prompts, native 2K aspect ratios, and Ideogram 4.0's structured JSON format with bounding-box layout control.
Be specific: describe who/what is in the image with details
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Generated Prompt
Fill in the form and click "Generate" to create an optimized Ideogram 4.0 prompt.
Tip: Be as specific as possible with your subject description. Instead of "a dog," try "a golden retriever puppy with a red bandana."
Ideogram 4.0 Tips
- • Lead with a one-sentence image summary — earlier words carry more weight in Ideogram
- • Put the exact text in "double quotes" early in the prompt, with casing ("all caps") and placement ("curved above the icon")
- • Never name fonts — describe letterforms instead: "bold sans-serif", "formal script with flourishes", "1960s hippie lettering"
- • Keep prompts under ~150 words; content beyond that gets ignored
- • Don't write "no X" in the main prompt — Ideogram latches onto the noun. Use the negative field (comma-separated) or rephrase affirmatively
- • Structured JSON (v4) unlocks bounding-box layout control, per-element hex palettes, and dense multi-text designs
- • Pick Turbo for cheap drafts ($0.03/image via API), Quality for finals ($0.10) — native 2K, no upscale needed
How to Use the Prompt Generator
Describe Your Design
Pick a use case (logo, poster, t-shirt, thumbnail, etc.) and a prompt format — Natural Language for everyday use or Structured JSON (v4) for precise layout control. Describe your subject and setting, choose style, composition, and lighting, type the exact text that must appear in the image, and optionally lock in a color palette and background type.
Generate Your Prompt
Click Generate. The tool leads with a one-sentence image summary, quotes your text with casing and placement directives, describes letterforms instead of naming fonts, keeps the prompt inside Ideogram's ~150-word effective window, and moves exclusions into a proper comma-separated negative prompt. In JSON mode it outputs Ideogram 4.0's native caption schema with style_description, per-element hex palettes, and bounding boxes.
Copy & Create
Paste into ideogram.ai (set Magic Prompt to Off to keep exact control), the Ideogram API, or partner platforms like Replicate, fal, ComfyUI, Krea, and Leonardo. Generate at Turbo for cheap drafts and Quality for finals — output is native 2K. If a letter renders wrong, fix just that region with Magic Fill in Ideogram Canvas instead of re-rolling.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ideogram 4.0?
Ideogram 4.0 (released June 3, 2026) is Ideogram AI's flagship text-to-image model and the company's first open-weight release — a 9.3B-parameter single-stream Diffusion Transformer trained from scratch, with a Qwen3-VL-8B text encoder. It generates natively at up to 2048×2048 (2K) with any aspect ratio up to 6:1, supports transparent backgrounds and editable text layers, and ranks #1 among all open models on DesignArena. Its signature strength remains best-in-class, multilingual in-image text rendering — logos, posters, signage, captions, and typography.
How does this prompt generator work?
You fill in structured inputs — use case, subject, style, composition, lighting, exact text to render, colors, and constraints. Our AI assembles them into Ideogram's preferred order (image summary first, quoted text early, style and composition after), strips font names in favor of letterform descriptions, moves exclusions into a proper comma-separated negative prompt, and keeps everything under the ~150-word effective limit. Choose "Structured JSON (v4)" and it instead outputs Ideogram 4.0's native JSON caption format with style_description, compositional_deconstruction, and hex color palettes.
What is Ideogram best at?
Images where the words matter. Ideogram renders legible, correctly-spelled, stylized text inside images at roughly 90–95% accuracy — versus ~30–40% for Midjourney. That makes it the go-to model for logos, posters, t-shirt and merch designs, YouTube thumbnails, social graphics with overlay copy, business cards, packaging mockups, greeting cards, and typography art. Ideogram 4.0 adds design-grade layout control: bounding-box placement of subjects and text, per-element color palettes, native transparency, and editable text layers.
Should I use Natural Language or Structured JSON format?
Natural Language works everywhere — the Ideogram app, API, and all partner platforms — and is the right choice for most generations. Structured JSON is Ideogram 4.0's native caption format (the model was trained exclusively on structured JSON): it unlocks precise bounding-box placement of every object and text element (normalized 0–1000 coordinates), exact hex color palettes (up to 16 global, 5 per element), and dense multi-text layouts like business cards, infographics, and sponsor-covered posters. Use JSON when layout precision is the point.
How do I get perfect text in my images?
Four rules: (1) put the exact wording in "double quotes" and place it early in the prompt; (2) specify casing and placement — "all caps, stacked, centered" or "small footer below"; (3) never name a specific font — describe its style instead ("bold geometric sans-serif", "vintage calligraphy"); (4) keep strings short — long or unusual text raises the error rate. Our generator applies all of this automatically. If a letter still comes out wrong, fix it with Magic Fill in Ideogram Canvas instead of re-rolling the whole image.
What is Magic Prompt and should I turn it on?
Magic Prompt is Ideogram's built-in LLM that interprets, refines, and expands your prompt before generation (in 4.0 it expands plain text into the full structured JSON caption). "Auto" lets Ideogram decide per image, "On" enhances all four images for richer variety, "Off" uses your exact wording. Since this tool already produces a fully-engineered prompt, set Magic Prompt to Off (or Auto) to keep precise control over your text and layout.
How much does Ideogram cost? Is it free?
Ideogram has a usable free tier (~10 slow credits/day, creations are public). Paid plans: Basic $8/mo (400 priority credits), Plus $20/mo (1,000 credits, private creations), Pro $60/mo (3,000 credits plus CSV batch generation) — roughly 40% cheaper billed annually. The hosted API costs $0.03 per image (Turbo), $0.06 (Default), or $0.10 (Quality). Ideogram 4.0's weights are also openly downloadable on Hugging Face for local inference, fine-tuning, and research (commercial use of the weights requires a paid license).
What aspect ratios and resolutions does Ideogram 4.0 support?
Ideogram 4.0 generates natively from 256px up to 2048×2048 (2K) — no separate upscaling step — at any resolution in multiples of 16 and any aspect ratio up to 6:1. Practical picks: 1:1 for logos, stickers, and social squares; 4:5 for Instagram feed; 3:4 for posters; 16:9 for thumbnails and wide layouts; 9:16 for stories; 3:1 for banners. It also supports negative prompts, seeds for reproducibility, and transparent backgrounds in a single pass.
Ideogram vs Midjourney vs DALL-E vs Flux — when should I choose Ideogram?
Choose Ideogram when the words matter: it decisively beats Midjourney (~40% text accuracy), DALL-E, and Flux on in-image text and on layout/design control, and it's the only top-tier model you can self-host and fine-tune. Midjourney still wins on artistic "taste" and cinematic aesthetics; Flux leads on raw photorealism and speed for text-free product shots; GPT-Image-2 and Google's models score higher on some overall benchmarks. For logos, posters, merch, thumbnails, and anything typographic, Ideogram is the strongest pick.
Is this tool free to use?
Yes. You get 3 free prompt generations per day with no signup required. For unlimited access, sign up for a Promptslove membership which includes all AI tools and 20,000+ premium prompts.
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