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Printable Wall Art

Four kinds of print from one page: a typographic quote, generated geometric line art, a nursery animal, or a botanical plate. All stroke only, so an A3 costs almost nothing in ink and prints cleanly on any machine.

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Four steps

How to print wall art

  1. 1

    Pick the kind

    Typography, geometric, nursery or botanical.

  2. 2

    Set it up

    Write the words and break the lines yourself, or set the complexity.

  3. 3

    Choose the weight

    Heavier lines read from further away; lighter ones look finer close up.

  4. 4

    Print on matt paper

    160 gsm or heavier so it hangs flat rather than curling.

Why outline art beats filled art at home

Most printable wall art is designed for a screen and then printed, which is why so much of it disappoints. Two things go wrong at once: a large filled area uses a great deal of a colour cartridge, and it is precisely where an inkjet shows banding, so the print has visible stripes across the part that was supposed to be the feature.

A line drawing has neither problem. It costs almost nothing to print, it looks the same from an eight year old printer as from a new one, and at A3 it reads as deliberate rather than as a photocopy. Everything here is stroke only for that reason.

Hanging a set rather than a print

Three related A4 prints in a row almost always look better than one large print, and they are far more forgiving: a set reads as intentional even when the spacing is slightly off, whereas a single large print draws the eye to every centimetre it is not centred by.

Line breaks are the design

In a typographic print, where you break the lines is most of the design, so nothing here wraps for you. Break on the sense of the phrase: a break after a comma or before a preposition reads naturally, while a break that happens to fall where the sheet ran out of room reads as an accident, because it is one.

Related printables

The colouring pages hold the same original artwork at page size with an outline made for colouring in, printable signs covers the functional side of the same idea, and banner letters spell out a longer message across several sheets.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Ink and quality, in that order. A filled A3 print uses a startling amount of a colour cartridge, and large flat areas are exactly where a home printer shows banding, so a filled print usually looks worse than a line drawing of the same thing. Outline art prints cleanly on any printer and costs almost nothing.

No. They are drawn from the numbers you set rather than picked from a library of finished images, so changing the complexity produces a genuinely different composition rather than the same picture at a different size.

Wherever you want them, which is why the box takes one line per line and nothing wraps automatically. Where a line breaks is most of the design in a typographic print, and no automatic wrap puts the break in the right place. Break on the sense, not on the width.

A3 for a print that carries a wall on its own, A4 for a set of three hung in a row. Matt paper of 160 gsm or heavier will hang flat; ordinary copy paper curls within a few days, especially above a radiator.

Yes. Every drawing on this site was made for it as vector line art, not traced and not licensed from a pack. So you can frame it, sell the framed print, or use it in a shop without any third-party licence underneath it.

Yes, there is a switch for it in the controls. It is off the print area by default and can be removed entirely.

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