30 Graphic and poster styles
Flat vector shapes, bold type-friendly layouts, risograph and screen-print textures. They hold up at small sizes, which makes them a good fit for posters, ads, thumbnails and brand illustration.
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Clean Flat Vector
Clean, airy flat vector illustration: forms are modelled with large, clearly outlined areas of flat colour, moderately simplified and gently rounded while keeping their key features.
Cinematic Grain Flat
Cinematic flat-shape illustration: simplified colour blocks, strong directional light with long shadows, and clear foreground, middle and background layers.
Airbrush Grain Geometry
Flat geometric illustration with exaggerated, asymmetric proportions.
Bold Color Geometry
Minimal geometric illustration with large flat blocks of highly saturated colour and bold colour clashes.
Negative Space Graphic
Graphic illustration built on negative space: one shape reads as two images at once, with the background forming part of the subject.
Negative-Space Silhouette
Striking minimal illustration that builds figures from positive and negative space: large silhouettes in two or three bold colours, with the background shape completing a face, a profile or a body.
Two-Color Stencil Print
Two-colour stencil-print look: two bright inks overprinted with slight misregistration, so the colours overlap into a third tone.
Retro Silkscreen Figures
Retro silkscreen-print illustration: heavy, overlapping layers of flat geometric colour with slight misregistration, a coarse grain and the worn texture of an old printed book.
Mid-Century Fairytale
Mid-century modern fairytale illustration: stylised geometric shapes, exaggerated proportions and flat blocks of cheerful, unexpected colour such as pink skies, turquoise trees and orange castles.
Retro Geometric City
Retro 70s–80s commercial cartoon: figures built from circles, squares and arcs with icon-like faces, walking through a stylised city of colourful blocks, windows and signs.
Geometric Nature Characters
Ultra-geometric, decorative flat illustration: animals, plants and figures reduced to triangles, circles and crisp angular facets, with a few precise details such as a single eye or stripe.
Freeform Paper Cut-Outs
Joyful cut-out art: free, organic shapes snipped from sheets of painted paper in pure, saturated blues, reds, yellows and greens, arranged flat against plain grounds.
Cut-Paper Modernist Poster
Bold modernist graphic built from rough, hand-cut paper shapes: jagged edges, stark symbols and only two or three elements on the page.
Retro Ad Cartoon
Bold mid-century advertising cartoon: thick, confident black lines, quirky figures with odd proportions and big expressive faces, and flat retro colours in tomato red, mustard, turquoise and cream.
Belle Époque Poster
Late-19th-century Parisian poster style: simplified figures with sweeping outlines, large flat areas of colour, silhouetted crowds and bold diagonals.
Poetic Geometric Symbols
Poetic, childlike abstraction: thin wandering lines, small geometric symbols such as arrows, moons, eyes and grids, and soft patchwork fields of warm, slightly chalky colour.
Minimal Cut-Paper Shapes
Minimal cut-paper illustration made of simple geometric shapes: circles, arcs and rectangles in a few clear colours, laid flat on white or a single coloured sheet.
Blue-Orange Grain Editorial
Modern editorial illustration in a striking two-colour scheme of deep blue and bright orange, with a fine grainy print texture.
Gen-Z Pop Fashion
High-saturation pop fashion illustration: bold, hard-edged outlines, large flat blocks of pure colour and strong hue contrasts like hot pink against acid green or electric blue.
Tokyo Street Graphic
Modern street-style graphic illustration: figures assembled from crisp geometric colour blocks, sharp silhouettes and confident poses.
Bold Flat Satire
Bold contemporary cartoon with thick, even black outlines and large flat blocks of bright colour.
Pop High-Saturation Doodle
High-saturation pop doodle: rounded, flowing thick black outlines, bright flat colour blocks and small graphic elements such as stars, sparkles and squiggles scattered around.
Chaotic Color Doodle Crowd
Exuberant all-over doodle: dozens of goofy, wobbly cartoon characters, eyes, mouths and shapes packed edge to edge, each outlined in thick black marker and filled with bright, clashing flat colour.
Pop Doodle Overlay
Playful mixed media where bold hand-drawn pop doodles are drawn straight over a photograph: cartoon eyes, grinning mouths, hearts, stars, patterns and squiggles in hot pink, yellow, cyan and black marker.
Stained Glass
Stained-glass window design: the image is divided into pieces of jewel-toned coloured glass held by thick dark lead lines, with light glowing through.
Traditional Tattoo Flash
Classic traditional tattoo flash: bold, heavy black outlines, solid black shading and a limited, saturated palette of red, yellow, green and blue.
Kawaii Sticker
Kawaii sticker art: super-cute rounded characters and objects with tiny dot eyes, blush cheeks and happy faces, bold clean outlines and flat pastel colours with a simple shine.
Groovy 70s Psychedelic
1970s groovy psychedelic cartoon: bold flowing shapes and wavy outlines, retro flower-power motifs, swirling rainbow bands and sunbursts.
Street Art Mural
Urban street-art mural: spray-paint gradients, crisp stencil shapes and drips on a textured brick or concrete wall, layered with torn paste-up posters.
Four-Panel Pop Art Grid
Pop-art silkscreen grid: the same image repeated in a two-by-two grid, each panel in a different bold colour scheme of cyan, yellow, magenta and red.