Pixel Style Poster
Editorial posters built around a large, fine dot-matrix subject with tight microtype captions.
Designers / Illustrators / Small brands
Preview: example output from v92388375-gif/pixel-style-poster-skill by v92388375-gif, reproduced under the MIT licence.
Suggested prompts
Written by PicGens as starting points. Click one to copy it, then paste it to your agent once the skill is installed.
About this skill
Pixel Style Poster is about bitmap printing, not video-game sprites. It produces 3:4 editorial posters in which one large subject — often a flower, a fruit or an insect — is rendered as a fine dot matrix, with the headline set close to it and small captions scattered around the edges in a restrained palette.
Variants include soft colour-wash backgrounds with reverse halftone, layouts led by the title, and quieter compositions where the type shrinks to microtype. You give it a subject, a phrase, a mood or a brief, and it returns the generated poster together with the final prompt and the recipe it chose, plus a short note. The repository is small — seven files — but the rules are specific enough to keep a series of posters visually consistent.
What it makes
A 3:4 dot-matrix editorial poster, its prompt and the recipe used.
Before you install: An agent with image generation.
From the project README
Reproduced from v92388375-gif/pixel-style-poster-skill by v92388375-gif under the MIT licence.
Pixel Style Poster Skill
A Codex skill for generating 3:4 editorial bitmap poster prompts and matching raster images.
The skill creates posters with:
- large fine dot-matrix subjects
- optional title-led or quiet microtype layouts
- close subject-text typography
- small surrounding captions and labels
- soft colored-wash reverse-halftone variants
- restrained color systems
- low-resolution print texture
This is not retro game pixel art. The style is closer to fine bitmap editorial posters, halftone print studies, botanical bitmap posters, and poetic type-led image layouts.
Examples
| Mint Night Lily | Rococo Velvet Grapes | Deep Teal Butterfly |
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Install
Clone this repository into your Codex skills directory:
git clone https://github.com/v92388375-gif/pixel-style-poster-skill.git ~/.codex/skills/pixel-style-poster-skillRestart Codex if the skill does not appear immediately.
Usage
Invoke the skill by name and provide a subject, phrase, mood, or brief:
用 $pixel-style-poster-skill 做一张薄荷绿主题的百合花海报，小字和夜晚、宁静、露水有关
Output
For generation requests, the skill returns:
- the generated poster image
- the final image-generation prompt
- the selected recipe and short interpretation note
How to install Pixel Style Poster
1.Clone into Codex skills
git clone https://github.com/v92388375-gif/pixel-style-poster-skill.git ~/.codex/skills/pixel-style-poster-skill
Licence and attribution
Pixel Style Poster is created and maintained by v92388375-gif and published at github.com/v92388375-gif/pixel-style-poster-skill under the MIT licence. The summary, suggested prompts and “About this skill” text are written by PicGens; the README section is reproduced under the project’s licence. The preview is an example image from the repository, reproduced under its licence. PicGens is not affiliated with the author.
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