Charcuterie Board Designer

Describe a scene in the prompt (e.g. “giraffe on a surfboard”) and we’ll generate an inspiration picture, then place cheese, meats, and fruit to match its shapes and colors. Or upload your own photo. Match the board shape to your crop for cleaner silhouettes. Without either, you get a classic grazing layout.

1. Theme & inspiration

Prompt

A text prompt alone does drive the layout: we create a high-contrast scene image from your words, then map foods onto it. Upload a photo if you want to use a real picture instead.

Upload inspiration image (optional)

Optional upload overrides the prompt image. Drag to crop the subject (square crop works best with Match board shape to photo crop). Use Remove image to go back to prompt-only mode (no page refresh). Prompt scenes auto-check foods that match the sketch colors (cheddar for giraffe, salami for the board, blueberries for water, etc.).

2. Ingredients

Classic 3-3-3 (meats, cheeses, accompaniments). Check what you have — generation uses only these unless auto-suggest is on.

3. Techniques

4. Board size

Guests (approx) 6

Match board shape to photo crop

On = square crop → square platter (keeps silhouettes). Off = classic wide board (may stretch/crop the scene).

Top-down layout map

Board message

Write a greeting on the board. Size is how wide the words span. Depth raises the letters. Use a Block or Bold display font and food-fill for the most readable edible letters.

Message

Font

Width % 72 Depth 5

Ink color Letter food

Bold Fill letters with food Clear foods under letters

Happy Birthday

Messages default to the center. Use “Click map to place”, then click the 2D board.

3D board - fly around

Drag to orbit scroll / pinch to zoom right-drag or two-finger drag to pan

Turn on Edit to drag foods on the board (slight tweaks).

Styled procedural foods with soft lighting (Kenney Food Kit models used when present in models/kenney/). Prefer gallery models

Charcuterie board plan

Shopping list

Generate a board to see quantities.

Build order & tips

Technique steps include close-up diagrams when you use outlines, shape cuts, roses, or ribbons.

Place cheeses as anchors.
Add meats (roses, fans, ribbons).
Fill with fruit, nuts, crackers; bowls for wet items.

Quick charcuterie cheat sheet

Meats: prosciutto, salami/soppressata, chorizo, capicola, bresaola, nduja or rillettes.
Cheeses: soft (Brie), semi-firm (Manchego, Gouda), hard (aged cheddar, Parm), optional blue.
Accompaniments: crackers/baguette, grapes/berries, olives/cornichons, nuts, honey/fig jam.
Board messages: add text on the 2D map (font, size, ink color, depth). Depth extrudes letters on the map and raises them in 3D; optional food-fill builds letters from cheese/meat/beans.
Techniques: salami roses (wine-glass method), meat fans, prosciutto ribbons, cheese wedges, cut cheese/meat to silhouette shapes, outline edges with layered meats/herbs.
Board shape: turn on “Match board shape to photo crop” so a square crop stays a square platter — wide boards stretch silhouettes.
3D preview: soft-lit procedural foods (rounded cheese cubes, wheels with rind, meat fans) — Kenney models used when present for produce/bread.
Edit & share: tweak the 3D layout by dragging foods, then copy a share link (rebuilds the same board), export a PDF, or download JSON / GLB.

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