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Ligne Claire

Illustration: Clear-line drawing, Flat color

a modernist railway station concourse with travellers
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a vintage convertible on a coastal road, a lighthouse
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a tidy desk still life — lamp, rotary phone, books
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The prompt

Ligne claire clear-line illustration of {subject}: uniform even black ink outlines of one consistent weight, flat solid unshaded fields drawn from {palette}, no hatching, no gradients, calm geometric clarity and clean architectural perspective.

Materials
Black ink
Techniques
Clear-line drawing, Flat color

clear line, comics, flat colour, architectural, ligne claire

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Hero: a wide establishing street or civic scene with clean perspective
  • Avatar: a calm three-quarter character study, flat fields
  • Empty state: a single tidy object on a flat ground
  • Thumbnail: an orderly architectural scene

In the lineage of

  • Ligne claire (Franco-Belgian clear-line school), movement. uniform ink outline, flat colour

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

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Remix with this style

Apply Ligne Claire to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.