Cézanne's Card

How to create a Cézanne-style card

1. 1

   Choose a palette

   Pick one of Cézanne's palettes, pick a mood, or upload a photo for a harmonised palette.

2. 2

   Shape the layout

   Drag on the canvas to pull out the bands, and drag the top-left handle to round the corners. The bottom bar holds stroke density; “Sparsity” opens the three bias sliders.

3. 3

   Add text

   Click “Add text”, then click where it goes — or just double-click the card. Text dropped into a band centres itself.

4. 4

   Export

   Pick a format in the bottom bar: PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, animated GIF, HTML snippet, or print to PDF.

The colours of Cézanne

Every palette is a distilled impression of a painting or a period — not a filter. The generator first cuts the canvas into colour planes, each with its own key colour; strokes take their colour from the plane, then add tonal modulation and passage between neighbours, so that colour itself does the constructing.

Early

Early: the dark period — deep browns, earth reds and palette-knife impasto.

Impressionist

The impressionist years: painting outdoors beside Pissarro, at L'Estaque.

Constructive

The constructive years: Mont Sainte-Victoire and Cézanne's Card Players, patches set in a geometric order.

Late

Late work: the Bibémus quarry and the garden at Les Lauves.

Upload any photo and its colours will be softened toward the nearest Cézanne palette — 70% your image, 30% Cézanne.