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1980s Neon Action Text Effect AI Prompt
Create bold 1980s neon text effect typography with sharp brush lettering, magenta and cyan glow, detached underline, and dark retro palm silhouettes. Ideal for posters, titles, and retro graphics.
CREATE A COMPLETELY NEW IMAGE FROM SCRATCH. TEXT (verbatim): "YOUR TEXT" Render the supplied TEXT exactly once, preserving identical spelling, word order, and characters. Do not add captions, dates, symbols, or extra words. TYPOGRAPHY — HIGHEST PRIORITY Create original custom 1980s neon action-title lettering: a bold uppercase brush-script/display hybrid, aggressively slanted forward about 20°, compact and fast-moving. Use sharp spear-point terminals, diagonal cuts, extended crossbars, angular joins, and varied brush width. The silhouette should feel aerodynamic, rebellious, and hand-lettered—not like ordinary italic type. Keep every letter readable and structurally distinct. Use tight optical kerning without collisions. For two or more words, arrange them as a compact staggered two-line lockup rising slightly from left to right. Scale each complete line for balanced visual width; never stretch or distort individual letters. Make the title large and dominant, occupying approximately 72–82% of the canvas width and 45–55% of its height. SEPARATE UNDERLINE — REQUIRED Add exactly ONE freestanding underline below the complete text block. It is an independent graphic brush stroke, never a swash, tail, or extension of a letter. Leave a clearly visible empty gap equal to 6–10% of the average letter height between the lowest letter and the underline. It must not touch, connect to, grow from, cross, or overlap any character. Anchor the underline specifically to the FINAL WORD, not to the full title block or canvas. Its length must be approximately 90–100% of the rendered width of the final word. Start it directly below the first letter of that word and end it directly below the last letter; neither endpoint may extend beyond the word by more than 3% of its width. Center the underline beneath the final word only. Give it a shallow upward angle matching the title, a confident sweeping curve, and two tapered spear-point ends. Apply the same magenta face, cyan offset shadow, and controlled neon glow as the lettering. Keep the whole underline visible with clear space beneath it. COLOR AND NEON EFFECT Use a saturated hot-magenta-to-electric-pink letter face with small coral highlights. Add a crisp cyan/turquoise offset shadow slightly down-right, visible as a graphic secondary edge rather than deep 3D extrusion. Add controlled pink neon bloom and a faint cyan halo while keeping a bright, sharp, readable core. Use subtle dry-brush texture only at a few stroke endings. BACKGROUND Use a simple deep-black-to-midnight-purple vertical gradient with one restrained magenta aura behind the title. Frame the composition with two or three nearly black palm-tree silhouettes entering from the far left and right edges. Keep them sparse, flat, low-contrast, behind the text, and away from every letter. The background is an abstract title card, not a landscape. Add only subtle horizontal scanlines and fine analog grain. COMPOSITION AND FORMAT — STRICT Exact LANDSCAPE aspect ratio 10:7 (width:height), equivalent to horizontal 5:3.5. The canvas must be clearly wider than tall. Use a wide horizontal frame; never produce a portrait or square image. Position the title slightly above the vertical center to reserve a dedicated lower zone for the detached underline. Center the combined title and underline with generous left, right, top, and bottom margins. No cropped letters, palms, or underline. Front-facing graphic treatment with no perspective tilt. Strong central hierarchy, polished high-contrast finish, authentic late-1980s neon-night atmosphere. AVOID Portrait or square canvas, 7:10 orientation, underline spanning the whole title block, underline noticeably wider or narrower than the final word, underline centered beneath the canvas instead of the final word, underline attached to a letter, underline used as a letter tail, touching or intersecting underline, multiple underlines, connected swashes below the title, existing brand logos, copied lettering, ordinary fonts, rounded bubble letters, thin elegant cursive, upright type, chrome or metallic text, deep extrusion, excessive glow that blurs spelling, sun disc, horizon, ocean, mountains, beach scenery, cityscape, cars, people, portraits, extra icons, heavy VHS glitches, illegible or duplicated text, watermark, border, frame, or cropped strokes. Priority: exact horizontal 10:7 format, exact text, sharp forward-slanted 80s lettering, detached underline matched to the final word's width, crisp magenta/cyan neon treatment, minimal palm-silhouette background.
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