AI Gift Certificate Generator
A Voucher You Can Sell, in Fifteen Seconds

It Put an Accent on the Salon’s Name. Nobody Asked It To.

The prompt asked for the name MAISON LUMIERE and said, in as many words, to use only plain unaccented letters and to add no grave, no acute and no other mark to any letter. What came back is MAISON LUMIÈRE. Enlarge it and the accent is unmistakable, beautifully drawn, sitting over the E in gold script that is otherwise flawless. The reason this one is worth studying rather than laughing at is that the accent is arguably correct French — so it does not read as a mistake, it reads as good typography. But a gift certificate names the business that has to honour it, and a salon registered as Lumiere has just printed a hundred vouchers for a business called Lumière. Note the second thing it did too: the certificate was asked for full bleed with no matte and no border, and it delivered a photograph of a card lying on a pink surface, drop shadow and all, so the usable voucher is about three quarters of the file.

The One Number That Has to Agree With Itself, and Here It Did

The one in the set that did everything right, and it is the one that mattered most. A gift certificate has exactly one number on it, and if the figure and the written words disagree — $50 above FIFTY DOLLARS — you have handed a customer an argument to have at your till. Here they agree. GIFT CERTIFICATE, $50 and FIFTY DOLLARS are all spelled correctly, the numerals are the tallest thing on the card as asked, the letterspacing on the small capitals is even, and the olive sprig sits where it was told to. So the model can absolutely do this. It simply does not do it reliably, which is why the instruction on this page is to read the amount rather than to trust it. Generate the denomination two or three times and keep the one where the figure and the words match.

A Perforation You Could Not Tear

The guilloche engraving is genuinely beautiful and would pass on a real voucher. Now look at the perforation. The prompt asked for one straight vertical line of exactly twenty-four identical oval holes, equally spaced, top edge to bottom edge. Crop it and there is not one line of holes, there are two parallel columns of them — and only for most of the way down, because the top two holes are single, larger, and sit alone before the doubling starts. That is not a pedantic complaint: a perforation is a line you tear along, and two columns side by side is a thing that tears in the middle of nowhere. The count is nowhere near twenty-four either, and the card arrived tilted on a white ground with the corners showing, despite being asked for a flat full-bleed certificate.

Four Elements on the Card. Two of Them Are the Wrong Number.

There is almost nothing in this frame — a hairline rule, a star, some ruled lines and a great deal of cream — which makes it the cleanest demonstration of the counting problem you could ask for. Exactly five ruled writing lines were requested. Count them: there are six. A six-pointed star ornament was requested. The star is a five-pointed star. Two of the four things on the card are the wrong number, in an image so sparse that there was nothing to distract the model and nothing to hide behind. Everything else is impeccable — the lines really are the same length, the same weight and evenly spaced, the border is clean, the whole thing would print beautifully. If you are generating a write-in voucher where the number of blanks has to match the number of things a customer fills in, count them yourself.

Perfect Type, on a Background That Is Not Flat

Second clean text result of the six. THE READING ROOM and $25 are spelled correctly, sit on one single line with the book drawing and the divider rule at exactly the same height, and the whole line is centred, which is precisely the layout that was asked for — worth noting, because text placement is usually the first thing to wander. The instruction it dropped is the quiet one. The prompt said flat modern graphic design, no gradients, no texture. Crop the top-left corner and there is a soft vignette darkening toward the edges, visible grain across the whole green field, and a small grey wedge sitting right in the corner where nothing should be. On screen none of that matters. If you are having this printed as a flat spot colour, all three of them do.

The Preset We Would Actually Use — and Its Frame Is Not Symmetrical

This is the one to reach for if the voucher is going to paying customers: no lettering means nothing to misspell, so you generate the artwork here and set your own type over the empty middle afterwards. It is also a neat illustration of what the model is doing underneath. A symmetrical frame was requested. Crop the left edge and the right edge and hold them side by side: the sprigs are not mirrored, they are two completely different drawings with different leaf counts, different berry clusters and different stems, and the gap between the two gold rules that box in the empty centre is visibly wider on the right than on the left. There is a small blown-out white patch in the top-left corner as well. It draws each edge freehand rather than repeating one, which is why you cannot generate a matching back or a second size and expect the same frame.