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Ideogram 4.5 sets type you can print.

Marquees, film boxes, magazine mastheads, festival posters, neon in Japanese. Every image on this page is an unedited Ideogram 4.5 render made on FXI Studio, shown with the exact prompt that produced it, plus the seven rules we use to get the words right.

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Credits
4 / 8 / 12
Output
1024² square
Maker
Ideogram

Text the model wrote itself

Four layouts, four type systems, no retouching. Under each image: the strings the prompt asked for. Open the full prompt to copy it.

Art-deco cinema marquee at night framed by gold bulbs, the letter board reads PREMIERE TONIGHT, THE LAST REEL, DOORS 8 PM

Cinema marquee

Text asked for

  • “PREMIERE TONIGHT”
  • “THE LAST REEL”
  • “DOORS 8 PM”
Full prompt

A classic art-deco cinema marquee at night, photographed straight on, warm golden incandescent bulbs framing a white changeable-letter board against a deep black night sky with a few stars. The marquee board reads in three lines of black block letters: "PREMIERE TONIGHT" on the first line, "THE LAST REEL" large on the second line, "DOORS 8 PM" smaller on the third line. Brass and gold trim, soft bulb glow, light rain sheen, cinematic photography, rich gold and black palette, crisp legible lettering, no other text.

Black 35mm film box with a gold band reading GOLDEN HOUR, a 400 badge, COLOR NEGATIVE FILM and 36 EXPOSURES, beside a film canister

Film box packaging

Text asked for

  • “GOLDEN HOUR”
  • “400”
  • “COLOR NEGATIVE FILM”
  • “36 EXPOSURES”
Full prompt

Close studio product photograph of a retro 35mm film box filling most of the frame, angled three-quarter view on a glossy black surface, a black and gold film canister in front of it, warm golden rim light, deep black background. The box front is black with a wide gold band. Large bold gold condensed sans-serif letters across the box front: "GOLDEN HOUR". A gold circle badge reading "400". Beneath, white spaced capitals: "COLOR NEGATIVE FILM". At the bottom edge, smaller white capitals: "36 EXPOSURES". Big, crisp, legible packaging typography, gold, black and warm amber palette, no logos, no icons, no other text.

Film magazine cover with the serif masthead AUTEUR above a vintage cine camera on a tripod, coverlines The New Wave Issue and 24 FILMS TO WATCH

Magazine cover

Text asked for

  • “AUTEUR”
  • “The New Wave Issue”
  • “24 FILMS TO WATCH”
Full prompt

An editorial film magazine cover, square format. Huge elegant high-contrast serif masthead "AUTEUR" across the top in warm ivory. The cover photo is a vintage brass and black cine film camera on a wooden tripod, lit dramatically against a deep teal-black studio backdrop with a golden spotlight from above. Lower left, a bold headline in gold italic serif: "The New Wave Issue". Below it a small ivory sans-serif coverline: "24 FILMS TO WATCH". Glossy magazine print, luxurious typographic hierarchy, gold, ivory and deep teal palette. Clean corners: no logos, no icons, no symbols, no watermark, no barcode, no other text.

Swiss-style poster on cream paper, stacked black title SHORT FILM WEEK beside a large yellow circle, with SCREENINGS, TALKS, WORKSHOPS and OCT 24 to NOV 2

Swiss festival poster

Text asked for

  • “SHORT”
  • “FILM”
  • “WEEK”
  • “SCREENINGS · TALKS · WORKSHOPS”
  • “OCT 24 — NOV 2”
Full prompt

A Swiss-style modernist film festival poster on cream paper with subtle silkscreen texture. A large hand-printed golden-yellow circle on the right two-thirds. Upper left, the title in massive tightly leaded black bold sans-serif stacked on three lines: "SHORT" / "FILM" / "WEEK". Below the title, small spaced black capitals: "SCREENINGS · TALKS · WORKSHOPS". Lower left, small black capitals: "OCT 24 — NOV 2". Total typographic discipline, three-colour palette cream, golden yellow #eecd2b and black, no logos, no other text.

Rain-soaked Tokyo alley at night, a woman in a navy midi dress walks toward camera under a pink neon sign reading 映画通り and a violet vertical sign reading 夜景

It reads Japanese, too

Two neon signs in Japanese, both written correctly. Asking for “exactly two” signs mattered: an earlier run that asked for three came back crowded. The fewer strings you ask for, the cleaner each one renders.

Text asked for

  • “映画通り”
  • “夜景”
Full prompt

Cinematic night photograph of a narrow rain-soaked Tokyo alley. A young woman with long straight black hair walks toward camera in a navy midi dress with thin gold piping. Exactly two neon signs, each perfectly legible: a large horizontal pink neon sign at top center reading "映画通り", and a vertical violet neon sign on the right reading "夜景". Wet pavement reflecting magenta and cobalt, light rain, blurred umbrellas behind her, shallow depth of field, editorial film still. No other text, no logos.

Where we stop asking the model

Ideogram 4.5 is strong at headlines and short lines. It is not a layout engine. For our billboard campaign it rendered the street, the billboard and the director’s chair; the fill-in-the-blank headline kept drifting, so we set that copy and the logo by hand. That is the honest workflow: let the model build the world, typeset what has to be exact.

Billboard above a wet city intersection at dusk with a director’s chair on the right; the hangman headline and logo were added in post
CompositeScene rendered with Ideogram 4.5; headline and logo set in post.
The neon alley and the four specimens above, frame-chained into one move. Stills by Ideogram 4.5; motion by a video model, first frame to last frame; hook line and end card added in the edit. How frame chaining works

How to prompt Ideogram 4.5 for typography

Seven rules, each pulled from a render on this page. Start from this skeleton and swap in your own copy.

[Medium + subject], [camera / lighting / palette].
The [surface] reads, [type direction]:
"[LINE ONE]" on the first line,
"[LINE TWO]" large on the second line,
"[LINE THREE]" smaller on the third line.
Crisp, legible lettering, no logos, no other text.

  1. Quote every word you want on the image

    Put each piece of copy in double quotes, spelled exactly as it should print. Unquoted words are treated as description, not text.

    The marquee prompt quotes three strings and gets three strings back, letter for letter.

  2. Describe the type, not just the words

    Name weight, width and class ("bold condensed sans-serif capitals", "high-contrast serif masthead", "gold italic serif") so the lettering matches the object it sits on.

    AUTEUR came back as a high-contrast serif because the prompt asked for one; the coverline under it stayed a small sans.

  3. Give each line a position and a size

    Write the layout line by line: "on the first line", "large on the second line", "lower left, small capitals". Hierarchy you spell out is hierarchy you get.

    The Swiss poster stacks SHORT / FILM / WEEK because the prompt used slashes and said "stacked on three lines".

  4. Put the text on a real surface

    Anchor copy to something physical: a marquee letter board, a box front, a neon tube, a magazine masthead. The surface tells the model how the letters should be lit and textured.

    Neon signage glows, the film box is printed foil, the poster is silkscreen. Same model, three material treatments.

  5. Close the door on extra text

    End with "no logos, no other text". Without it the model fills empty areas with invented signage, barcodes or fake brand marks.

    Every example on this page ends with a no-other-text clause.

  6. Keep the copy short and count-stable

    Headlines, titles and two or three supporting lines render cleanly. Long paragraphs, puzzle text and runs of underscores (fill-in-the-blank, hangman) are where letters start to drift.

    Our billboard headline garbled across many runs, so we set it in post. Plan copy-heavy layouts the same way.

  7. Compose for a square frame

    On FXI Studio, Ideogram 4.5 renders 1024 x 1024 squares only. Write the layout for 1:1, then crop, extend or animate the square in the next step.

    Every image here is 1024 x 1024. The dashboard video frame-chains these squares into motion.

Ideogram 4.5 questions

What is Ideogram 4.5 best at?

Ideogram 4.5 is a text-to-image model built for typography: posters, packaging, marquees, magazine covers and signage where the words have to read correctly. It follows quoted copy, type direction and line-by-line layout closely, including non-Latin scripts such as Japanese.

How do I get accurate text from Ideogram 4.5?

Quote every word exactly, describe the typeface (weight, width, serif or sans), give each line a position and size, put the text on a physical surface, and end the prompt with "no logos, no other text". Keep copy to a headline plus two or three short lines.

What aspect ratios does Ideogram 4.5 support on FXI Studio?

Square only. On FXI Studio, Ideogram 4.5 currently renders 1024 x 1024 images, because the upstream model rejects non-square sizes. Compose for 1:1, then crop, extend or animate the square afterwards.

How many credits does Ideogram 4.5 cost?

Ideogram 4.5 has three quality tiers on FXI Studio: low costs 4 credits, medium costs 8 credits and high costs 12 credits per image. New accounts start with 65 free credits.

Can Ideogram 4.5 edit an image or use a reference?

No. On FXI Studio Ideogram 4.5 is text-to-image only and takes no reference images. To edit an existing picture, switch to an edit model such as GPT Image 2.5 Edit in the same composer.

Was the billboard headline on this page rendered by Ideogram 4.5?

No. Ideogram 4.5 rendered the billboard scene and the director’s chair, but the fill-in-the-blank headline and the logo were set in post because the model garbled that copy. The text examples on this page (marquee, film box, magazine cover, Swiss poster and the neon alley) are unedited model output.

Write the words. Direct the frame.

Ideogram 4.5 opens preselected in the composer. New accounts start with 65 free credits, enough for eight medium-quality renders.

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