Screen Print Halftone Poster
Stable Diffusion
Prompt
A screen print style poster of a breaking wave rendered in coarse halftone dots, two ink colours of deep blue and coral on off-white paper, visible dot pattern and slight ink texture, bold graphic composition, flat screen- printed aesthetic, retro surf poster energy
Negative prompt
photorealistic, 3d render, smooth gradient, blurry, watermark, text, signature, fine detail
Settings
- Model
- Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
- Aspect ratio
- 2:3
- Steps
- 30
- CFG scale
- 6.5
- Sampler
- DPM++ 2M Karras
Screen Print Halftone Poster is an SDXL 1.0 prompt that renders a wave in coarse two-colour halftone. It suits retro wall art and screen-printed t-shirt graphics.
Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
How to use this prompt
Halftone is the whole technique here, so the prompt says "coarse halftone dots" and bans "smooth gradient" in the negative — a screen print builds tone from dots, and a smooth gradient means the model ignored the process. "Coarse" matters: fine dots read as a photograph, while big visible dots read as print. Two ink colours are named because each is a separate screen; more than two and the registration story gets muddy. The off-white paper is deliberate — it gives the inks something to sit on and keeps the retro feel. A 2:3 frame suits a poster or a tee graphic.
Variations to try
- Single ink — the wave in one black halftone layer
- Sun and wave — a halftone sun added behind the wave
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What to do next
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Open this prompt in the Stable Diffusion builder, pre-filled, and change one layer at a time.
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Screen Print Halftone Poster",
"prompt": "A screen print style poster of a breaking wave rendered in coarse halftone dots, two ink colours of deep blue and coral on off-white paper, visible dot pattern and slight ink texture, bold graphic composition, flat screen- printed aesthetic, retro surf poster energy",
"negative_prompt": "photorealistic, 3d render, smooth gradient, blurry, watermark, text, signature, fine detail",
"model": "Stable Diffusion",
"model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "2:3",
"steps": 30,
"cfg": 6.5,
"sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"flat-design"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"wall-art",
"t-shirt-design"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/screen-print-halftone/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
