Vintage Tropical Travel Postcard
Stable DiffusionVintage Tropical Travel Postcard is a tested Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 prompt for poster work. It runs at Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 · Aspect ratio 3:2 · Steps 30 · CFG scale 7 · Sampler DPM++ 2M Karras, and ships below with the exact prompt text, usage notes, and 2 pasteable variations.
Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
Prompt
mid-century travel postcard illustration of a tropical beach cove, flat lithograph color blocks, turquoise lagoon, leaning coconut palms with simplified frond shapes, a coral pink band of sky along the horizon, one small white sailboat, cream paper base with a soft ink registration offset, limited palette of turquoise, coral, palm green and warm sand, clean flat shapes with no gradients
Negative prompt
photorealistic, 3d render, gradients, airbrush, lens flare, modern buildings, people, text, watermark, oversaturated
Settings
- Model
- Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
- Aspect ratio
- 3:2
- Steps
- 30
- CFG scale
- 7
- Sampler
- DPM++ 2M Karras
How to use this prompt
"Soft ink registration offset" is the authenticity secret — mid-century postcards were printed with color plates slightly out of alignment, and SDXL reproduces that faint color halo convincingly once you name it. Gradients are banned twice, in the prompt and the negatives, because SDXL reflexively airbrushes tropical skies. Call the pink sky a "band" — ask for a pink sky and you get sunset glow instead of a flat printed stripe. cfg 7 holds the hard shape edges; below 6 they soften into painterly blends and the print look dissolves.
Variations to try
- Volcanic island — "swap the cove for a volcanic island with a black sand band and white surf lines"
- Evening plate — "an evening palette of tangerine, plum and deep teal with the palms as pure silhouettes"
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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": "Vintage Tropical Travel Postcard",
"prompt": "mid-century travel postcard illustration of a tropical beach cove, flat lithograph color blocks, turquoise lagoon, leaning coconut palms with simplified frond shapes, a coral pink band of sky along the horizon, one small white sailboat, cream paper base with a soft ink registration offset, limited palette of turquoise, coral, palm green and warm sand, clean flat shapes with no gradients",
"negative_prompt": "photorealistic, 3d render, gradients, airbrush, lens flare, modern buildings, people, text, watermark, oversaturated",
"model": "Stable Diffusion",
"model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "3:2",
"steps": 30,
"cfg": 7,
"sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"flat-design"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"poster",
"wall-art"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/vintage-travel-postcard-tropics/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
