Ideogram 4 Generator: AI Images Where the Text Is Actually Readable
Posters, logos, packaging, app mockups — type the headline, get artwork with the words spelled right. Choose your aspect ratio and rendering speed, with real layout control.
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What is Ideogram 4 — and why do designers reach for it first?
Ideogram 4.0 is an open-weight image model that shipped in early June 2026, trained from scratch with roughly 9.3 billion parameters. The thing that sets it apart isn't another photorealism leaderboard — it's that the words inside the picture come out legible. Headlines, brand names, price tags, street signs, even paragraph-length captions land with correct letterforms and tidy spacing, the place most generators still fall apart. Pair that with a choice of rendering speeds (from a fast Turbo draft to a slower Quality pass), standard aspect ratios, and unusually obedient layout control, and you get a tool built for the work designers and marketers actually ship: posters, logos, packaging, and UI mockups rather than just pretty wallpaper.
Legible Text Inside Images
Headlines, labels, and signage spell correctly with clean kerning — the reason most people switch.
Turbo to Quality Speeds
Pick a fast Turbo draft while you iterate, or a slower Quality pass when the type has to be perfect.
Open-Weight, From Scratch
A ~9.3B-parameter model trained ground-up, tuned hard for typography and graphic design.
Layout & Background Control
Strong prompt adherence — describe the composition and the model holds it, ideal for logos and layouts.
How to use Ideogram 4 — from a sentence to a finished layout
Start with the subject, then layer in the style, the lighting, the framing, and — this is the part that matters — the exact words you want printed. Wrap any headline, label, or sign in double quotes and Ideogram 4 treats it as literal copy to typeset rather than something to interpret. Pick a Turbo rendering speed when you're exploring directions quickly (8 credits), Balanced for everyday work (10 credits), or Quality when the typography has to be exact (14 credits). Because the current generator is text-to-image, the cleanest path to a polished result is a richer prompt up front: name the typeface mood, the color story, and where each line of text should sit. A few words added to the prompt usually beats a round trip through another editor.
Write the Prompt
Subject, then style and framing. Put printed copy in "double quotes" so it typesets verbatim.
Set Ratio & Speed
Ratios: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. Speed: Turbo (8 cr), Balanced (10 cr), Quality (14 cr).
Generate & Iterate
Reads the prompt in seconds. Tweak the wording, re-run, and dial in the typography.
Download & Ship
Export as PNG or JPEG. No watermark on any plan.
Text That Spells Correctly — the headline feature, literally
Most image models still turn a poster headline into half-invented gibberish. Ideogram 4 is built around the opposite goal: brand names, taglines, addresses, ingredient panels, and dense signage come out readable, with correct letterforms and even kerning. For anyone making posters, packaging, or ads, this is the single difference that turns an AI image from a mood board into a deliverable.
Brand names & headlines
Exact spelling, balanced kerning, no melted letters or invented characters.
Dense-text layouts
Menus, price lists, captions, ingredient panels — readable down to the small print.
Display typography
Serif, grotesk, script, blackletter — pick a type mood and the model holds it.
Logos & Marks — clean type-led brand artwork
Describe a wordmark and a monogram, name the color and the type feeling, and Ideogram 4 returns a logo concept where the letters read the way you wrote them. Ask for a clean flat background and the mark drops straight onto decks, packaging, and web mockups, so a single prompt can carry a brand idea from sketch to presentation without leaving the generator.
Wordmarks that read
The brand name comes back spelled right, not approximated.
Clean, flat backgrounds
Ask for a plain background and drop the mark onto a deck, tee, tote, or web hero.
Many directions fast
Re-prompt for a fresh take and compare type moods side by side.
Layout Control — say where each line goes
Tell Ideogram 4 to stack the headline top-left, drop a subhead beneath it, and tuck a footer line in small caps along the bottom, and it places them where you asked. Strong prompt adherence means the composition follows your direction instead of fighting it — ideal for posters, slides, social cards, and packaging where structure matters as much as style.
Place the type
Top, center, footer, margin — describe the position and it lands there.
Faithful to the brief
High prompt adherence keeps the layout close to what you wrote.
Composition variety
Grids, hero shots, 2x2 panels, full-bleed — describe the structure you need.
Words in More Than One Language — and they still read
Typography-first training shows up across scripts, not just English. Ask for a Japanese tagline on a soda can, a Chinese cover line on a lifestyle card, or an accented French headline, and Ideogram 4 keeps the characters correct instead of melting them into decorative noise. Quote the exact phrase you want — in whatever language — and it gets typeset the way you wrote it, which is what makes the model genuinely useful for global packaging, posters, and social art.
Multiple scripts
Latin, CJK, and accented characters render with correct letterforms when you quote them.
Quote, don't translate
Paste the exact phrase you want in any language and it gets typeset verbatim.
Built for global work
Packaging, posters, and social art that ship to more than one market.
Third-Party Hosted Access to Ideogram 4
An independent, unofficial way to run Ideogram 4 in your browser — powered by the Fal queue backend. Not affiliated with Ideogram.
9.3B Open-weight model, trained from scratch
Open-weight model, trained from scratch
3 Speeds Turbo, Balanced, and Quality rendering
Turbo, Balanced, and Quality rendering
Text-first Built for legible typography in images
Built for legible typography in images
Jun 2026 Ideogram 4.0 release
Ideogram 4.0 release
Straightforward Ideogram 4 Pricing — Start Free
Pick a plan and subscribe in a click. Every tier exports without a watermark, carries full commercial rights, and lets you re-prompt as many times as it takes. Pro suits creators shipping weekly, Max is sized for studios and agencies, and Basic is the easy on-ramp for solo makers.
Pro
What's included
- 48,000 Ideogram 4 credits / year
- Up to 4,800 images / year
- Turbo, Balanced & Quality rendering
- Priority technical support
- Watermark-free exports
- Early access to new Ideogram 4 features
- Advanced batch processing
Max
What's included
- 102,000 Ideogram 4 credits / year
- Up to 10,200 images / year
- Priority generation speed
- Turbo, Balanced & Quality rendering
- Early access to new Ideogram 4 features
- VIP dedicated support
- Advanced batch processing
Basic
What's included
- 18,000 Ideogram 4 credits / year
- Up to 1,800 images / year
- Turbo & Balanced rendering
- Watermark-free exports
- Full commercial rights
- Standard support
What Creators Say About Ideogram 4
Notes from designers, founders, and marketers running Ideogram 4 for real work.
I stopped dreading headline text. I type the tagline in quotes and it comes back spelled right the first time — our campaign posters go from prompt to approval in one sitting.
Sarah Chen, Marketing Director
Sarah Chen
Marketing Director
We tested it against Flux and a couple of others. For anything with words on it, Ideogram 4 just wins — the lettering stays clean and the output is sharp enough for web and social.
Marcus Johnson, Creative Director
Marcus Johnson
Creative Director
Logo exploration used to eat a whole afternoon. Now I describe the wordmark, pull a clean PNG, and drop three directions into a deck before lunch.
Elena Rodriguez, Graphic Designer
Elena Rodriguez
Graphic Designer
For app-store screenshots and UI mockups it's a cheat code. The labels read correctly, so engineering and design actually look at the same thing.
David Kim, Product Manager
David Kim
Product Manager
It follows the brief. When I say put the headline top-left and the footer in small caps, that's where they land — the layout isn't a fight anymore.
Amara Okafor, Brand Strategist
Amara Okafor
Brand Strategist
I write very specific prompts and Ideogram 4 respects them. The type mood I ask for is the type mood I get — serif, blackletter, whatever the piece needs.
Thomas Weber, Freelance Artist
Thomas Weber
Freelance Artist
Product hero shots with a legible label baked in saved our listing-photo budget. The text on the packaging just reads — no retouching pass required.
Priya Sharma, E-commerce Manager
Priya Sharma
E-commerce Manager
Thumbnails with bold readable overlay text used to mean opening a separate editor. Now it's one prompt, and the words come out crisp every time.
James Mitchell, Content Creator
James Mitchell
Content Creator
The range is wide — flat vector infographics one minute, museum-poster illustration the next — and it never loses the labels along the way.
Aisha Patel, Digital Artist
Aisha Patel
Digital Artist
Commercial rights on every tier plus headline text we can trust — that combination is why this is in our agency's regular toolkit now.
Carlos Mendez, Advertising Executive
Carlos Mendez
Advertising Executive
Mocking up a settings screen with real-looking labels takes a sentence. Stakeholders read it like a finished product instead of squinting at placeholder text.
Lisa Wang, UX Designer
Lisa Wang
UX Designer
Packaging comps that used to need a designer and a typesetter now start as one Ideogram 4 prompt. We refine from there instead of from zero.
Ahmed Hassan, Photography Studio Owner
Ahmed Hassan
Photography Studio Owner
Ideogram 4 — Frequently Asked Questions
Still stuck? Email support@ideogram-4.org.
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