Lunar New Year Red Envelope Pattern
Stable Diffusion
Prompt
A repeating pattern for lunar new year packaging on a deep vermilion red ground, gold line motifs of plum blossom branches, stylised rolling clouds, koi and small hanging lanterns arranged in an even scattered repeat, each motif drawn in a single consistent gold line weight with no fill, generous red space left between motifs, elements rotated to varied angles with no directional bias, flat, no shadows, no gradients, no text, no calligraphy, no characters, no letters
Negative prompt
blurry, low quality, text, letters, chinese characters, calligraphy, invented script, gradients, shadows, 3d embossing, clustered density, uneven spacing, watermark
Settings
- Model
- Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
- Aspect ratio
- 1:1
- Steps
- 30
- CFG scale
- 6.5
- Sampler
- DPM++ 2M Karras
Lunar New Year Red Envelope Pattern is an SDXL 1.0 prompt for festive gold-on-red packaging art at 1:1. Calligraphy is banned explicitly, since invented character-like marks are a worse outcome here than no lettering at all.
Last updated: July 2026 · written for Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more flat design prompts .
How to use this prompt
The particular hazard in this design is script. SDXL will insert character-like marks unprompted, and a meaningless or malformed character on a lunar new year product is a cultural error, not just a rendering flaw — which is why "calligraphy" and "characters" appear in the negative alongside the usual no-text instruction. Keeping every motif at one gold line weight with no fill is what makes the pattern read as foil printing rather than flat illustration. Leave generous red between motifs; crowding them turns the vermilion into a background instead of the subject.
Variations to try
- Zodiac year version: add one repeating stylised animal motif in the same single-weight gold line
- Invert it — vermilion motifs on a gold ground — for the inside face of the envelope
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Lunar New Year Red Envelope Pattern",
"prompt": "A repeating pattern for lunar new year packaging on a deep vermilion red ground, gold line motifs of plum blossom branches, stylised rolling clouds, koi and small hanging lanterns arranged in an even scattered repeat, each motif drawn in a single consistent gold line weight with no fill, generous red space left between motifs, elements rotated to varied angles with no directional bias, flat, no shadows, no gradients, no text, no calligraphy, no characters, no letters",
"negative_prompt": "blurry, low quality, text, letters, chinese characters, calligraphy, invented script, gradients, shadows, 3d embossing, clustered density, uneven spacing, watermark",
"model": "Stable Diffusion",
"model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "1:1",
"steps": 30,
"cfg": 6.5,
"sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
},
"style_tags": [
"flat-design",
"vintage"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"seamless-patterns",
"invitations"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/lunar-new-year-red-envelope-pattern/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
