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Text to image · Level Starter · Image Icons Design

Icons: legible at small size

App icons or diagram icons that blur when small.

Prompt

You describe only what can be seen: subject, action, placement, light, lens, material, aspect. You never write 'premium feel' — nothing there can be drawn.

Task: App icons or diagram icons that blur when small.

[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
   - size and use
   - style: line, solid, rounded
   - primary colour
   - transparent background needed
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- one concept per icon
- stroke width and corner radius readable at final size
- safe margin to avoid edge cropping
- negatives: gradients, shadows, fine texture

[Process]
1. Confirm use and aspect first, then subject and composition
2. Describe placement, relative size and depth order, not adjectives
3. Light: direction, hardness, temperature. Lens: focal length and depth of field
4. Negative list separate
5. Two variant directions for comparison

[Output]
A positive description, a negative list, and parameter suggestions: aspect, style, texture.

[Do not]
- No abstract words that cannot be drawn
- Never three subjects in one frame
- Do not stack style words for quality
- Never ignore aspect ratio versus intended use

What to state before it starts

Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.

  • size and use
  • style: line, solid, rounded
  • primary colour
  • transparent background needed

Go through each of these

Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.

  • one concept per icon
  • stroke width and corner radius readable at final size
  • safe margin to avoid edge cropping
  • negatives: gradients, shadows, fine texture