Van Gogh's Card
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Van Gogh's Card

Turn starry nights, wheat fields and swirls into a card no one else has.

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What is Van Gogh's Card?

Van Gogh's Card is a studio that paints with an algorithm: Van Gogh's language of painting — swirling long strokes, comma dabs, paired complementary colours and the texture of impasto — turned into a creative tool you can adjust by hand.

  • Unique every time·Every card is derived from a cryptographic seed, so no two are identical.
  • Van Gogh-inspired colour·27 palettes distilled from his paintings, from the dark of Nuenen to the sunflowers of Arles.
  • Text that belongs·Open-source calligraphy fonts (SIL OFL 1.1) laid over the painting — double-click to edit in place.
  • Export anywhere·PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, animated GIF, a pasteable HTML snippet, or print to PDF.

How to create a Van Gogh-style card

  1. 1

    Choose a palette

    Pick one of Van Gogh'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 Van Gogh

Every palette is a distilled impression of a painting or a period — not a filter. The generator lets strokes follow a flow field — two opposed swirls plus a sine wave, so the sky turns and the wheat breathes; some strokes carry a brighter impasto ridge and a companion complementary colour, making the pigment vibrate.

Dutch
Dutch period: the dark of Nuenen — peat browns and ochre, and The Potato Eaters.
Paris
The Paris years: Montmartre and the Seine, with colour beginning to brighten.
Arles
The Arles years: the yellow period — sunflowers, the Yellow House and cafés under the stars.
Late
Saint-Rémy and Auvers: Starry Night, wheat fields and cypresses, twisted into swirls.

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

Meet the real Arles: the Yellow House and the starry Rhône

Van Gogh's most important work comes from three years in the south: the Yellow House and the sunflowers in Arles, the cypresses and irises of the Saint-Rémy asylum, the wheat fields of Auvers. This page gathers his Arles days, the Studio of the South and where his paintings live today. Then come back and paint a card from the same sky.

Step into Van Gogh's ArlesBrowse the Van Gogh-style gallery

Frequently asked questions

Is Van Gogh's Card free?

Yes. No account needed — every tool is free to use.

How do I make a Starry Night-style painting as a card?

Pick a starry palette (Van Gogh's Starry Night uses exactly cobalt blue and star yellow), or upload your own night-sky photo to extract its colours; then set stroke direction to “Swirl”, raise the density, and export PNG, SVG or an animated GIF.

Can you still visit Arles and Saint-Rémy?

Yes. A plaque marks the Yellow House site in Arles, and the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy and Van Gogh's memorial sites at Auvers can be visited; our Van Gogh in Arles page covers the Yellow House, the sunflowers, Saint-Rémy and where his paintings are.

Are my images uploaded anywhere?

No. Reference photos are only used to extract colours on the spot and are never saved.

Why is every card different?

Each card is derived from a random seed driving palette, composition, stroke direction, density, sparsity, texture and glow. The same seed reproduces the same card; fresh seeds are one in four billion.

Which fonts are used for the text?

Open-source fonts under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 — Long Cang, Liu Jian Mao Cao, Zhi Mang Xing, LXGW WenKai TC and Ma Shan Zheng for Chinese, Playfair Display, Cormorant Garamond, Dancing Script and EB Garamond for Latin.

What can I do with an exported card?

Exports are saved straight to your device — what you do with them is up to you.

Keep exploring

Every page in both languages: the studio, Van Gogh's Arles, his paintings and the museums that hold them today.