Open Graph Cards by Visual Style
Pick the visual language your brand already sounds like — Swiss, brutalist, magazine, cinematic, terminal — and share in it.
Brutalist
High-contrast slabs, oversized type and raw grids. Earns the click in feeds full of soft gradients.
Swiss minimal
Tight grids, generous whitespace, one accent. The default safe choice for credibility-first cards.
Magazine editorial
Serif headlines, image-led layouts, kicker bars. Built for long-form articles and feature stories.
Terminal / CLI
Monospace, prompts, ASCII frames. Speaks fluent dev — perfect for docs, releases and OSS launches.
Neo-brutalist
Cream paper, sticker highlights and tilted FREE badges. The warm, friendly cousin of brutalist — louder than Swiss, kinder than raw brutalism.
Text overlay
Cinematic photo + bold white display type with a dark gradient mask. The most universal OG language — Vercel, Linear and Stripe all ship variants of it.
Cinematic
Teal-orange split-tone, crushed blacks, halftone grain. When the photo's mood matters more than its literal subject — manifestos, brand films, anniversary recaps.
Collage
Cut-paper layers, tape strips, mixed photo + type fragments. The hand-built scrapbook look — louder than Swiss, more analog than brutalist.
Risograph
2-3 spot-colour halftones, mis-registered layers, rough paper grain. The printmaking OG language — for studios, music labels and indie publishers.
Newspaper
SoonTabloid grids, dense type, datelines. Signals reportage, op-eds and editorial weight.
Pixel retro
Soon8-bit type, dithered art, CRT vibes. Stops the scroll for indie games, retro tech and playful brands.
By Style FAQ
How to pick a visual style that earns the click in feeds full of soft gradients.
When does style matter more than headline?
Once your card competes in a busy feed — Twitter, LinkedIn, Slack at scale. The right style is a 2–3× CTR lever before you touch the words. In a quiet DM, style barely matters; in a scroll, style is the whole game.
Are these styles tied to specific content types?
They're tied to tone, not topic. Terminal reads as technical whether it's docs or a manifesto; magazine reads as long-form whether it's a fashion brand or a Substack. Pick by the feeling you want the click to have.
Can I invent my own style?
Yes — the six styles are seeds, not the whole space. On the home painter, the wildcard slots explore adjacent directions; on the API, you can pass custom style hints per URL. Once a custom style earns its click-through, we're happy to fold it into the library.
Stop Browsing, Start Shipping
The cards you've been browsing on this hub were all painted the same way — one URL, four variants, no template picker in the middle.