Vintage Matchbox Label

Packaging · Matchbox · Label

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Animal label with border
Alternate colourway
Sheet of uncut labels
Label on a box
Detail of ink and paper

Recipe

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Updated 4 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A vintage matchbox label design. A bold stylised tiger in three flat inks of vermilion, black and mustard on cream paper, framed by a simple decorative rule border with small corner ornaments. Simplified drawing built to read at four centimetres wide, slight off register printing, uneven ink on thin absorbent paper. The label artwork fills the frame.

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Recommended settings

Size
1365 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Say it has to read at four centimetres. That forces the simplification the style depends on.
  • 2A rule border with corner ornaments is period correct and frames the subject.
  • 3Three inks on cream, no more.

Things to try

Bird label

a peacock or crane in the same three ink scheme

Uncut sheet

a grid of the same label repeated across one sheet

Fruit crate

the same treatment at crate label scale with more colours

Soap wrapper

the design wrapped around a bar with a folded seam

Very worn

heavy foxing, a torn corner, faded inks

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