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Ideogram

“Typography, made easy” — a sign maker who never misspells

📂 Image creation🆓 Free tier🇰🇷 Limited Korean📊 Beginner
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WHAT

What is Ideogram?

Ideogram is an AI image generator from Ideogram AI. It renders text inside images relatively accurately, making it a first pick for images where the wording matters, such as posters, signage, and social media cards.

  • 1Text inside images holds together better than in most tools
  • 2Well suited to text-heavy work like posters, banners, and logo concepts
  • 3You can start for free, and the simple interface is easy for beginners to pick up
A signboard craftsman in his 30s drawing one straight stroke on a finished sign — a hand that never writes letters crooked or wrong
A sign maker who never misspells a letter — a Nanum Consulting character illustrating Ideogram’s personality.
WHY

What sets it apart

These are the differences we found by running the same material through several tools in our training sessions.

🔠

Treats text like part of the picture

Most image AIs draw text as “letter-shaped patterns,” so spelling falls apart on close inspection. Ideogram is built to place the exact text when you put it in quotation marks, which reduces how often you need to regenerate posters and banner drafts with English titles.

🎚️

Just pick, and you are done

There are no long lists of settings on screen. Type a sentence, pick an aspect ratio and style, and several drafts appear at once. You choose the one you like and refine it step by step, so you can produce results on day one with no installation and no commands.

🧩

Refine and iterate

Besides generating new images, there are also tools that change just part of an existing image or extend it beyond the frame. The official docs state that these retouch and extend tools use priority-processing credits on paid tiers and slow-queue credits on the free tier.

⚖️ The weaknesses are clear, too

Its text rendering shines mainly in English. Korean letters are built from combined jamo, so they often come out less cleanly than English, so it’s faster to leave Korean text out of the image and add it in Miricanvas or Canva. For people shots that need photo-like realism, other tools are better.

💡 In plain English

It’s less a painter than a craftsman who letters signs neatly. It’s most useful when there’s a spot that has to hold text.

🏢 Why it matters for organizations

Internal notice posters, training announcements, and card news are mostly 'half image, half text.' When the lettering breaks, the job goes back to a designer. This tool sits right where that back-and-forth happens.

SCENE

Same job, different approach

It’s Friday afternoon, and you need a poster for Monday’s internal training announcement

The old way

  1. Find and open last year’s poster file
  2. Change only the date and venue, and keep the background as is
  3. Ask a designer to “make a few small tweaks”
  4. You don’t get the final version until Monday morning

With Ideogram

  1. Cut the poster text down to one line
  2. Describe the background mood and text placement, then generate four drafts
  3. Move the chosen draft into an editing tool and add Korean text and your company font
  4. Share a draft before you leave on Friday and collect feedback
USE

Common uses

01

Training and event notice posters

Generate several vertical poster drafts with the event name and date, then add Korean text and your company font separately on top of the one you choose.

02

Card news covers and thumbnails

If you generate images in sequence with the same background settings and change only the title, the tone stays consistent across multi-part content.

03

Explore logo and badge concepts

Use it not to produce the final version, but to quickly gather “something like this” options for aligning direction with your designer.

FIT

Who it’s for

Best for

  • ✓Training and office administration managers who need to make announcement and event posters themselves
  • ✓People who often work with images that include text, such as social media cards and thumbnails
  • ✓Anyone who wants to see results today, with no installation or complicated setup

Better served by other tools

  • –Anyone who needs photorealistic human faces and hands
  • –Anyone who must put long Korean text inside the image
  • –Anyone who wants to install a model themselves and control every detail
SECURITY

Can we use it at work?

The questions that adoption leads and security teams ask first.

Is your input used for training?The official FAQ states, "Images are public by default, and private generation can be selected on the plans that offer it." In other words, assume that any image made without changing settings can be seen by others.
Business and team plansThe official documentation describes a Team plan that lets you manage members as a group, billed by the number of seats. The team owner handles invitations, removals, and billing.
Never upload theseDon’t upload photos of new company products, unreleased designs, or customers’ faces. On a service that defaults to public, one mistake puts them in front of everyone.

Note: Check the official terms for how entered images and prompts may be used for training, and for the conditions for private settings on the Team plan.

START

10-minute quick start

  1. 1

    Sign up at ideogram.ai with your Google account. There’s nothing to install.

  2. 2

    Describe the scene in one paragraph, and put any text you want in the image in quotation marks, in English.

  3. 3

    Choose an aspect ratio (vertical poster, square, etc.) and get several drafts at once.

  4. 4

    Move the one you pick into an editing tool and finish it with your Korean text and your company’s fonts and logo.

PROMPT

Copy-and-paste prompts

Replace only the [bracketed] parts, then paste it in.

Event announcement poster
Vertical announcement poster. Light pastel background with a subtle paper texture. Large bold sans-serif "[event title in English]" in the center, with "[date]" and "[venue]" in small text below it. No photos, only simple shapes and generous white space. Leave an empty area at the bottom for Korean text.
Card news cover
A square card news cover. Deep navy background, a small geometric accent in the upper left. Two lines of text in the center: "[English title]". Make the text large and bold, and leave the rest empty. Keep it simple so the same background can be reused for the next issue.
Collect logo drafts
A simple logo draft with the text "[Brand name in English]". Clean lines, a single color, white background. Show several variations, mixing a text-only version and a version with a small symbol attached.
Course thumbnail
16:9 landscape thumbnail. A simple illustration evoking [course topic] on the right, and the two words "[English keyword]" large on the left. Use only two colors so it reads from a distance.
Editing only part of a draft
In this image, change only the center text to "[new text]" and leave the background and color tone as they are. Keep the text size and position exactly as they are now.
RECIPE

Using it with other tools

Linking two or three tools changes your work more than any single tool does.

One announcement poster (20 min)

1Use Claude to cut the poster text down to a single line
2Set the background mood and English text in Ideogram, then generate four drafts
3Move it into Miricanvas and finish by adding Korean text and your company logo

A set of course thumbnails (30 min)

1Use Claude to draft ten title lines, one per course
2In Ideogram, generate in sequence with the same background settings, changing only the title
3Crop and export to each channel’s size in Canva
CAUTION

Before you start

  • Images are public by default. If a draft is made from company material, check the private setting first.
  • Don’t spend time forcing Korean text into the image. Adding it in an editing tool is always faster.
  • Credits are deducted at different rates depending on the model and quality. Check the cost per image first.
  • If a draft imitates a logo or trademark, check usage rights separately before using it.
PRICE

Pricing

For individual use

Free tier
₩0

The official documentation lists a free tier, which uses a slow queue

BasicStart here
KRW 17,000 (≈ US$13) per monthKRW 179,000 (≈ US$135) per year

Lowest paid tier, with priority-processing credits

Plus
KRW 44,000 (≈ US$33)/monthKRW 399,000 (≈ US$300)/year

Higher generation volume, plus features such as private generation, become available

Pro
KRW 110,000 (≈ US$82) per monthKRW 1,190,000 (≈ US$890) per year

Anyone who needs to generate in bulk or in parallel

Checked 21 Sep 2026 · Automated access to Ideogram’s official web pricing page was blocked, so we could not read it. The amounts below are the in-app purchase prices Ideogram AI Inc lists on the Apple App Store (Korea) and may differ from what you pay directly on the web. For the Team plan, which is billed per seat, we could not confirm the amount. Prices change without notice, so check the official page before you pay. Ideogram official pricing ↗ · App Store in-app price (Korea) ↗ · Ideogram official docs — Team plan ↗

HONEST

Where Ideogram falls short

We don’t just list the positives. Here is what fell short when we used it.

  • Billing amounts differ from screen to screen

    The web pricing screen and the in-app payment amount may not match, so it takes time to work out what you will actually pay. Having to open both screens before checkout is a hassle.

  • Long waits on the free tier

    The free tier uses a slow queue, so your work stalls while you wait for each image. It feels sluggish when you want to lay out several drafts side by side and compare them.

  • Results vary even with the same description

    When you make a batch of images that must share a mood, like a series, the same text can still produce shifting colors and impressions, so you end up generating many versions and picking one. Achieving consistency takes effort.

COMPARE

Tools to compare

NanoBananaTop image quality→MidjourneyHigh-quality images (for designers)→MiricanvasFor card news and thumbnails→CanvaVideo and image editing (large element library)→
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Related termsText-to-Image

FAQ

Yes, the official documentation describes a free tier. However, it uses a slower queue and blocks features such as private generation, so for work use you will likely look at a paid tier. Check the official pricing page for amounts.
Descriptions written in Korean are generally understood. Text rendered inside the image, however, is far more reliable in English, and Korean characters often come out smudged. It is better to add Korean text in an editing tool.
A Team plan that groups members lets you use it at the team level. However, images are public by default, so the rule is not to upload unreleased product photos or customers’ faces. Company policy comes first.

Last updated 22 Sep 2026 · The ratings on this page come from John Kim, CEO of Nanum Consulting, who has used these tools firsthand in training and real work.

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