Dot Matrix Wordmark — AI image prompt

Dot Matrix Wordmark - Stills

Style DNA

Flat graphic identity language. One clean field, the brand wordmark, and circular dots - nothing else. No photography, no 3D, no textures, no scene.
Brand theme color preserved. The plate keeps the source logo's theme color and recognizable design background where possible; dots are white or the wordmark color on that field. Typically two colors total, three at most.
Text is sacred. Readable text may come only from the supplied logo image or explicit user-provided brand/slogan text. Exact case, punctuation, spacing, and wordmark order. Never invent slogans, product claims, specifications, registered marks, category text, or packaging copy. If no slogan exists, render none - not even a placeholder.
The wordmark is authoritative typography. The final lockup uses the exact typeface, color, style, position, and size of the brand wordmark; the plate defines these and every other still must be able to resolve into it.
The dot is abstract. The opening dot is a plain white circle - never a water drop, sphere render, or any brand-specific object. Transitional geometry (dot clouds, sliding prefixes) is temporary scaffolding: rings, orbit lines, black circles, and stray transition dots must be absent from the final lockup still.
Character anchors govern structure. From the brand name extract three values, always from the plate's visible text:
- first_character_exact - the glyph the dots first assemble into.
- last_character_exact - the morph target, and the anchor the wordmark assembles around.
- prefix_before_last_character - the solid type that completes the name.
- Recompute anchors whenever the plate changes; never reuse anchors from the original upload, an earlier take, or general brand knowledge.
Dot geometry: uniform diameter (roughly 1/10 to 1/14 of the wordmark cap height), flat fill, no gradients or glows on individual dots, spaced on the glyph's own strokes - the letterform must read from the dot positions alone.

Subjects & framing

Subjects: brand names, wordmarks, logo-plus-slogan lockups - brand posters and identity sets. Not trademark design, not slogan invention.
Canonical ratio: 16:9 horizontal, high resolution (2K-class). The plate and every other still share it exactly.
Vertical or square variants re-center the same lockup with more vertical margin; the dot layout logic is unchanged.
Composition: wordmark horizontally centered on the field; slogan (only if it genuinely exists) in smaller type directly below the brand name. Generous margins - the wordmark occupies roughly the middle 50-60% of the width.
If the supplied logo is only a symbol or a single letter (e.g., a "G"), the plate may render the full brand name the user confirms - and that plate text then becomes the single source of truth for all anchors, overriding the original upload.
Very long names still anchor on the final character; the prefix simply carries more glyphs. Names of 2-3 characters can skip the prefix-slide still - the morph lands almost directly on the lockup.
Multi-word names keep their spaces exactly; the anchor characters are the literal first and last glyphs of the full visible wordmark, spaces excluded.

Still set

Poster states of one wordmark identity - from abstract dot to full lockup - each a standalone graphic plate:

Brand plate (final lockup) - the destination state: full brand name in the exact wordmark typeface and color, slogan below if approved, theme-color background, perfectly clean. This is both the hero poster and the reference every other still must converge to.
Dot opening still - a single plain white circle on the theme field, roughly where the first character will form. Abstract, no branding.
Matrix bloom still - the dot multiplied into a loose grid/cloud of small circles beginning to suggest a glyph; visibly mid-formation, evenly weighted dots.
First-character still - the first character exact, fully formed from dots, alone on the field at wordmark scale.
Morph still - mid-transition between first character and last character: dots partially rearranged, both glyphs faintly legible. This is the series' signature image.
Prefix-slide still - the last character (dot-formed or resolving to solid) anchored in its final wordmark position while the prefix characters, in solid type, sit partway in from the left, caught mid-slide.
Stills 2-6 carry no other text - no slogan, no extra marks; only the plate shows the complete lockup.

Minimum viable set when time is short: plate, dot opening, and morph still - the bloom and prefix-slide states can be added later from the same anchors, but the morph must exist because it defines the series' look.

HTML/CSS route

This style is a natural fit for code - often better than generation because anchors stay exact. Compose each state as a static document:

Render the wordmark as SVG text (or supplied outlines), sample glyph paths into point grids (getPointAtLength or rasterize-and-scan) to get per-character dot coordinates.
Dots as SVG <circle> elements (or points drawn to a raster 2D context); one dot set is positioned by blending between the first-character and last-character point clouds.
The plate is plain HTML/SVG: exact font file, theme-color background, centered lockup - text fidelity is guaranteed because it is the font.
Keep dot count equal between the two glyph clouds (subsample the denser one) so the morph still shows a true one-to-one reflow.
Snapshot any intermediate blend factor for the mid-morph and bloom stills; every state comes from the same document and the same anchors, so the posters can never drift apart.

Failure modes

Any invented text: slogans, taglines, claims, category labels, registered-mark symbols, packaging copy.
Anchors taken from the wrong source - always from the plate's visible text, not from the original upload, prior generations, or general brand knowledge.
The opening dot rendered as a water drop, glossy sphere, or brand object.
Rings, orbit lines, black circles, or leftover transition dots contaminating the lockup still.
Wordmark typeface, color, size, or position drifting from the supplied logo; a redrawn "similar" font.
Slogan text appearing in non-plate stills, or a slogan placeholder rendered when none exists.
3D, gradients on dots, textures, photographic backgrounds, or extra decorative geometry.
Uneven dot sizes or dots drifting off the glyph strokes so the letter stops reading.
Theme color replaced by a generic gradient instead of the source logo's own background language.
The morph still showing a blur or crossfade instead of two glyphs sharing one dot field.

Copy-ready prompt

Paste your brand name at the end - it is the only text the image may contain, reproduced exactly. The colors are this style's defaults - swap any of them for your own brand colors.

Flat graphic brand identity still, 16:9, high resolution. One clean
solid-color field, a wordmark, and uniform circular dots - nothing else:
no photography, no 3D, no textures, no scene. The brand name sits
horizontally centered, occupying roughly the middle 50-60% of the width
with generous margins, set in a clean authoritative wordmark typeface
(matching the supplied logo's exact typeface if one is provided). Its
final character is still assembling from a loose cloud of small circular
dots - all dots one uniform diameter, roughly 1/10 to 1/14 of the cap
height, flat fill with no gradients or glows, spaced along the glyph's
own strokes so the letterform reads from the dot positions alone, a few
dots still traveling - while the preceding characters stand complete in
solid type. No rings, no orbit lines, no trails, no extra decorative
geometry. Palette: deep navy background, warm white wordmark, white dots
(default palette - replace any of these with your own brand colors; two
colors total, three at most). The only readable text in the image is the
brand name given below, in its exact case, punctuation, and spacing - no
slogans, no taglines, no claims, no extra words, no watermark. Clean,
precise, minimal.

Subject: [PASTE YOUR BRAND NAME / WORDMARK TEXT - exact case and spacing]

Example subject

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