Text Posters & Quote Prints — Words That Work on Walls
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📖 Text Posters & Quote Prints -- Words That Work on Walls
Text on a wall is a very specific commitment. Unlike a photograph, which shows you something, or an abstract print, which suggests something, a text poster says something directly and permanently to every person who enters the room. The words you choose for your walls are the most explicit statement of values and personality that interior decoration permits. Which is why the choice matters, and why the difference between a text print that works and one that does not is often a single word.
At 98types Studio, Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL -- in Camden Market for 14+ years -- the typography and text print collection covers every register of written wall art: the precise humour of funny quote prints, the emotional directness of song lyric prints, the specific warmth of motivational text, and the singular quality of the song that matters so much it deserves to live on your wall permanently. All from £3. Buy 3 get 1 free. Same-day dispatch before 3pm.
🏠 Which Room? Which Text?
The right text print for a room depends on the room's specific function and the emotional register it should carry. These are the confirmed room-type recommendations for the 98types text print collection.
The best funny text print is one that lands differently every time you read it, depending on the specific circumstances of the moment. The Suspicious Cat says something different on a Tuesday morning than it does on a Sunday afternoon. Alexa Do The Dishes is funnier at 10pm after a dinner party than it is at 10am before one. This contextual quality -- the way a well-chosen funny quote print responds to the room's actual situation -- is what separates a genuinely funny text poster from one that gets a single laugh and then disappears into the wallpaper.
Alexa Do The Dishes is the 98types text print that most precisely captures a specific modern domestic experience: the existence of a device that can answer almost any question and control almost any smart home function but cannot be persuaded to do the one thing you actually need done. The print puts this observation on the wall as a question directed at the device, which means it is simultaneously a piece of domestic humour and a small philosophical meditation on the limits of technology. For a kitchen or utility room wall, it is the correct choice. Sorry I'm Latte applies the same economy of means to the universal experience of chronic lateness -- the pun is terrible, which is why it is funny, and the specific quality of its terribleness is what makes it memorable rather than merely amusing.
Text prints in the funny quotes category at 98types also include the swimming wine print, the suspicious cat, the donut and the I Never Made Friends Drinking Milk print -- the last of which requires the viewer to complete the reference and receive a small private reward for doing so. These are prints for rooms where intelligence and irreverence are both valued simultaneously.








A motivational text print works differently from a motivational poster in the classic sense: it does not require a photograph of a mountain or a sunset and a one-word caption in Impact font. The best motivational text prints at 98types derive their motivating quality from the specific precision of the language rather than from generic aspiration. Be A Nice Human is motivational not because it sets an impossibly high bar but because it sets an entirely achievable one -- the bar is niceness, the goal is humanity, and the simplicity of the formulation is itself a form of wisdom.
The distinction between a motivational text print and a cliché text print is the quality of the writing. A motivational print that says something you have not thought of before, or says something you have thought of before in a way you have not heard it expressed, is wall art that continues to work over time. A motivational print that says something you have seen on a hundred other walls is a print that disappears into the background within a week.
For the home office, a single well-chosen motivational text print -- one that relates specifically to your work rather than generically to life -- is more effective than any number of generic aspiration prints. The best home office text print is the sentence that makes you look up from the screen and feel ready to continue. The pisces definition print is an example of text that works as a motivational piece by being specific enough to belong to one person rather than to everyone: the star sign definition is personalised in a way that a generic quote cannot be.



A song lyric text print is the most personal form of typographic wall art: it is a declaration that this specific song, these specific words, matter enough to live permanently on your wall. The lyric print is more private than a film poster (which communicates taste) and more expressive than an abstract print (which communicates aesthetic preference). A lyric print on a bedroom or living room wall communicates feeling -- the specific emotional register of a song you return to, the verse that meant something at a moment that mattered.
The 98types lyric print collection is one of the largest in the UK, covering over one hundred confirmed songs across every genre of popular music. The Britpop canon is the most popular category: Oasis Wonderwall, The Killers Mr Brightside, Arctic Monkeys Do I Wanna Know and Snow Patrol Chasing Cars are the four text prints that appear most frequently in gallery wall arrangements and above-bed features. These are songs with lyrics specific enough to carry the weight of personal meaning and universal enough to communicate that meaning to everyone who reads them.
The contemporary pop text print collection covers Taylor Swift's complete era discography, Harry Styles's three solo albums, Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey and more -- the artists whose lyrics most frequently appear on the bedroom walls of people aged 18-35 in 2026. The classic pop collection extends the lyric print tradition to Queen, ABBA and the artists whose songs have been universally known for fifty years. A Queen Bohemian Rhapsody lyric print is the text poster that works in every generation simultaneously -- Is this the real life? is a question that everyone who has ever heard the song will answer in the same way.












Movie song text prints sit at the intersection of two print traditions -- the lyric print and the film poster -- and they carry the emotional weight of both simultaneously. A Dirty Dancing I've Had the Time of My Life text print is a lyric print that also contains the entire film in three lines: the summer, the dancing, the specific joy of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey discovering that they have found something they did not know they were looking for. The text carries the music, and the music carries the film, and the film carries everything that anyone who loved it at a specific age in their life associates with that age.
The 98types movie song text print collection is organised by the specific quality of the songs rather than by the films they come from: these are the songs that made the films memorable, that played over the end credits, that audiences were singing before they left the cinema. La La Land's City of Stars is the most precise lyric about artistic ambition and romantic sacrifice in contemporary musical film -- a text print for anyone who has ever made a choice between what they love and who they love. The Godfather's song print connects the film to the Italian ballad tradition that gives Coppola's film its specific emotional grammar.





ABBA's lyrics are text that almost everyone who grew up in any decade from the 1970s onwards knows from the inside -- words they have sung in cars, at weddings, at karaoke, in supermarkets without meaning to. The ABBA lyric text print collection at 98types covers the full catalogue of the band's most universally known songs: Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, Waterloo, Super Trouper, Chiquitita and more.
The specific quality that makes ABBA lyrics work as text posters is their emotional directness: You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen -- there is no metaphor, no ambiguity, no irony. The words say exactly what they mean, and they mean something joyful, and the typography on the wall carries that joy into whatever room it inhabits. An ABBA lyric text print in a kitchen is the print that makes Tuesday morning feel slightly more like a Friday night.





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📖 Shop the Complete 98types Text Print Collection
Funny quotes · Song lyrics · Motivational text · Movie song prints · ABBA lyrics · Rock & pop. From £3 · Buy 3 get 1 free · 260gsm museum-grade satin paper · Archive pigment inks · Same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.
FAQ — Text Posters & Quote Prints
What are the most popular text prints at 98types?
The five most popular text and lyric prints at 98types are: Oasis Wonderwall Lyrics Print, The Killers Mr Brightside Lyrics Print, Alexa Do The Dishes Print, Taylor Swift Anti-Hero Print and Be A Nice Human Quote Print. All available from £3 with buy 3 get 1 free and same-day dispatch from Camden Market, London.
What is the difference between a lyric print and a quote print?
A lyric print reproduces the words of a specific song by a specific artist -- Oasis Wonderwall, Taylor Swift Anti-Hero, ABBA Dancing Queen. A quote print reproduces a standalone phrase or saying that may or may not have a known attribution -- Be A Nice Human, Sorry I'm Latte, Alexa Do The Dishes. Both are forms of typographic wall art. At 98types, both categories are designed with the same intentionality: font choice, weight, colour and spacing are all editorial decisions that affect how the text reads on a wall.
What size text print should I buy for a bedroom wall?
For a bedroom lyric print displayed above the bed or on the opposite wall, A3 (29.7x42cm) is the standard recommended size -- large enough to read from the bed at 2-3 metres without requiring the viewer to lean forward, and compact enough to work in most bedroom spaces. A2 (42x59.4cm) is better for larger bedrooms or above-bed arrangements where the total print should span the width of the headboard. See the complete poster size guide.
Can text prints and film posters work together in a gallery wall?
Yes -- the combination of a lyric text print with a film poster is one of the most effective gallery wall arrangements. The text print provides emotional specificity (the song that matters to the person) while the film poster provides visual drama (the graphic composition that communicates taste). In a living room gallery: one lyric print + one film poster + one map or illustration creates a three-print arrangement that communicates music, cinema and place simultaneously. Browse the gallery wall guide for full layout instructions.
What are the best funny quote prints for a kitchen?
The 98types funny quote print collection for kitchens includes: Alexa Do The Dishes (the most kitchen-specific print), Sorry I'm Latte (the morning humour print), Swimming Wine Art Print (the evening print), How You Like Your Eggs (the breakfast conversation opener) and Donut Poster Wall Art (the most honest thing you can put in a kitchen). Browse the funny quotes collection and funny prints collection for the full range. From £3. Buy 3 get 1 free.
Are text prints suitable for living rooms?
Yes -- text prints work very well in living rooms when used as part of a mixed gallery rather than as a standalone wall. One lyric text print in a gallery of three to five prints provides the personal register that purely visual prints cannot. The recommended living room lyric text prints at 98types: Oasis Wonderwall (universally recognisable), Queen Bohemian Rhapsody (cross-generational), and Snow Patrol Chasing Cars (romantically resonant for most ages). All from £3.
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