Ideogram

Ideogram — User Guide

Strong text-in-image—posters and covers.

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Strengths
  • The industry’s strongest in-image text rendering capability, with clear and accurate text
  • Excellent design effects for posters, logos, and titles
  • Magic Prompt automatically optimizes prompt words
  • Supports multiple aspect ratios and style options
Best for
  • Poster and promotional material design
  • First draft of logo and brand visual
  • Social media images with text
  • Book cover and album cover design

Image generation with text

The biggest advantage of Ideogram is that it can accurately render text in images, which is very suitable for design needs.

Scenario

Generate event poster

Prompt example
A vibrant music festival poster with the text 'SUMMER BEATS 2025' in bold neon letters, colorful abstract background, concert crowd silhouette, modern design
Output / what to expect
Generate a professional poster with clear and readable text “SUMMER BEATS 2025” and bright colors, which can be directly used for event promotion.
Tips

Put the text that needs to be displayed in quotation marks in prompt, and Ideogram will give priority to rendering these texts accurately.

Scenario

Design brand logo first draft

Prompt example
Minimalist logo for a tech startup called 'NexaAI', clean geometric design, blue and white colors, the text 'NexaAI' below the icon
Output / what to expect
Generate multiple logo plans with clear text and graphic elements that can be used as a first draft reference for designers.
Tips

Select the "Design" style when generating the logo, and precisely control the output with Magic Prompt turned off.

social media images

Quickly generate social media graphics with text captions.

Scenario

Generate inspirational images for Instagram

Prompt example
Aesthetic minimalist background with motivational quote 'Dream Big, Work Hard' in elegant serif font, soft pastel colors, Instagram post format
Output / what to expect
Generate inspirational images suitable for Instagram posting, with beautiful text layout and ready for use.
Tips

Choose an aspect ratio of 1:1 or 4:5 for Instagram, or 9:16 for Stories.

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