How to Create Text-Heavy Graphics with AI

AI can now render plausible headlines, but plausible is not acceptable for a price, date, dosage, name, or call to action. Use generation for composition; keep final language editable.

Workflow

1. Freeze the approved copy before design. Separate mandatory text from optional texture.
2. Ask Ideogram for composition routes with a short headline. Use Adobe Firefly or Recraft for supporting imagery and shapes.
3. Select a direction, remove generated lettering where possible, and rebuild it in Canva Magic Studio, Figma, or Adobe.
4. Check every character, line break, trademark, date, price, and URL.
5. Test contrast, reading order, thumbnail legibility, and localization expansion.

Guardrails

Never ship small generated legal copy. Avoid presenting generated letterforms as a finished logo without vector cleanup and trademark review. Keep a text-only source of truth so later corrections do not require regenerating the whole image.

The right success metric is an editable approved graphic, not an impressive prompt result.

Sources & further reading

• Ideogram product
• Recraft product