Digital native · 2013–present · South Asia, Latin America & Caribbean
'Good Morning' Greeting Images (WhatsApp Forward Vernacular)
Also known as Good morning images, Good-morning forwards, Shubh Prabhat images, Imagens de bom dia, Mensagens de bom dia
The ready-made greeting pictures that millions of smartphone users, many of them older and new to the internet, forward to family, friends and groups each morning on WhatsApp, above all in India and Brazil. A stock photo of flowers, a sunrise, birds, a coffee cup, a baby or, in India, the deity of the day sits under a greeting and a blessing, prayer or proverb. The look runs from glittering, crowded pictures to plain photo-and-text and pastel Canva-style cards, with a joking strand beside the devotional one. Sincere, the picture is mostly sent as it comes; the daily gesture is the message.
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Use it with care
Many Indian good-morning images carry deities such as Krishna, Shukra Dev or Shani Dev, and many Brazilian ones carry prayers, Bible verses and saints of the day, so treat them as devotional pictures: do not crop, distort or mock a deity or a prayer, or put one on a joke. The senders are mostly older people, often new to smartphones, for whom the daily greeting keeps up family and friendships, so design with them rather than to sneer at 'tiozão do zap' taste. The photographs are usually stock or lifted from other sites and carry template makers' watermarks, so license or shoot your own pictures, and have every Hindi, Portuguese or other line checked by a fluent reader.
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How it works
- Fill the frame edge to edge with one photograph of something lovely and harmless, softly lit and often with a blurred background: a dewy rose, a sunrise, a robin or a swan, a steaming coffee cup among flowers, a smiling baby or pet or, in India, a deity matched to the weekday (Shani Dev on a Saturday).
- Write the greeting large across the picture ('Good Morning', 'Suprabhat', 'Bom dia') in a script, a bold rounded or condensed sans in capitals, or a heavy Devanagari display face, filled white, yellow, red, gold or glitter and lifted off the photograph with an outline, bevel, glow or drop shadow.
- Add a short blessing, prayer, verse or motivational line in a plainer face, and name the day ('Tenha uma quarta-feira abençoada'), so that every morning needs a fresh picture; keep every word cheerful, since no greeting is ever sad.
- Sweeten to taste: the plainest pictures carry nothing but photograph, text and watermark and let a rose or a sunrise do the work; the fuller ones add sparkles, hearts, butterflies, flower frames, emoji and animated glitter until hardly any free space is left ('the cuter the better').
- Or go flat and soft, as many app and Canva cards do: a pastel or plain ground, a rounded quote box signed with the app's handle ('@Silver apps'), a watercolour flower wreath, or a weekday card, type-only ('QUARTOU') or with a script 'Segundouu' beside a cartoon sloth and a morning check-list. Or make it a joke, with a dog in sunglasses, a giraffe blowing gum or a meme cat captioned 'Bom DiA grupo', affectionate rather than ironic.
- Make one self-contained picture in whatever frame the photograph allows, square, upright or landscape, with the day's name written into the text and a corner or edge left for the maker's watermark or handle, so that it can go out as it comes, or with a name or date added in the app's editor, to every list and group soon after waking.
Smartphone messaging in India, where Google searches for 'Good Morning images' rose tenfold in the five years to January 2018 (the period starts with this WhatsApp phase) and millions of greeting pictures go out on WhatsApp before 8 a.m.; a parallel 'bom dia' image culture runs through Brazilian family WhatsApp groups, apps and Facebook pages. Before WhatsApp, morning greetings already went round as glitter 'scraps' and e-cards on Orkut, among the most visited sites in India and Brazil in 2008: TecMundo (2008) recommended Sparkle Tags to 'desejar um bom dia', and Indian scrap sites offered 'Good Morning' and weekday scraps beside festival glitter graphics
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Its design choices
From Stylogeny’s vocabulary of design choices: defining choices make the style, characteristic ones are usual, occasional ones turn up now and then.
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- Ironic & self-aware, Rebellious & subversive, Rational & objective, Non-representational, Monochrome, Modular grid, Photocopy & distress, Experimental & distorted
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Typefaces
Script and calligraphic display fonts for the greeting
('Bom dia', 'Feliz segunda-feira!', 'Segundouu'), and at least as often bold sans capitals, rounded or condensed ('BOM DIA', 'BOM DIA GRUPO!'), filled white, yellow, red, gold, glitter or a gradient and outlined, bevelled or drop-shadowed, in what B News São Paulo (2025) called a font that recalls a greeting card from 1999
Devanagari greetings and verses
'सुप्रभात!' in a heavy shadowed display face and Hindi couplets in a plain text face with key words picked out in red, above 'Good Morning' in an outlined non-script display face (WishGoodMorning.com)
Condensed capitals or a plain or light sans for the blessing, prayer or quote, white with a shadow, on a tinted band or in a rounded quote box, often naming the day of the week
For the joking pictures, meme captions in heavy white letters with a black outline
'Bom DiA grupo', stamped Criar Meme
The template app's or website's watermark, handle or address in small type or a round stamp in a corner or along an edge
(WISHGOODMORNING.COM, '@Silver apps', 'AppStars Developers', mensagensprontas.app, megafrases), which with the text TechTudo (2024) found left 'quase não haver espaço livre' on some pictures
Known for
Good-morning images forwarded on WhatsApp in India as reported by Newley Purnell in the Wall Street Journal (January 2018)
Google traced phones that froze for lack of storage to 'sun-dappled flowers, adorable toddlers, birds and sunsets', among them a toddler in a fedora with a message about the heart, Krishna with a quote about silent prayers and a single red rose for 'life's rose'
Weekday deity greetings in India
Mahesh Joshi sends images of Shukra Dev on Fridays and Shani Dev on Saturdays, and 'namaste' greetings on photographs of valleys and flowers with 'synthetic, rubbery surfaces, dripping with freshly-deposited dew' (Outlook, 17 November 2018)
Gopal Saini's morning greetings bearing gods' names, with images Outlook called 'neo calendar art', sent to 40–50 people a day
and Kamlesh Tetarwal's daily forward, drafted and designed on his morning walk for nearly 5,000 people in about ten broadcast lists and ten groups, whose text opens with 'Om Sai Ram' in Devanagari between two conch shells and closes with 'Shubh Prabhaat' between bouquet and folded-hands emoji (Outlook, 2018)
WishGoodMorning.com, launched in 2015 by Kanwarjot Singh
(WSJ, 2018), with pictures sorted by recipient from boss to mother-in-law and a Hindi section in which Devanagari verses sit over a sunrise, a robin or bare trees above 'Good Morning' or 'सुप्रभात!' in outlined, shadowed display letters, stamped with the site's round watermark (examined October 2026)
Frases e Mensagens de Bom Dia
the Brazilian app by Marcos Favero's M3 Apps, which stopped reusing other people's pictures and had a designer make its own in Photoshop and Illustrator, later with translators for users in other countries; three quarters of its users are women. Also the Facebook group 'Lindas mensagens', with 1.3 million members and about 80 good-morning images posted by 7.10 a.m. (TechTudo, 30 October 2024)
Canva 'bom dia' templates by Michella de Souza
a content creator from Cabo Frio who earns from customisable Canva templates, mostly for Instagram, takes her references from Pinterest, favours natural landscapes and smiling children and works on the rule 'quanto mais fofinho, melhor' (TechTudo, 2024)
TechTudo's gallery of 60 free 'bom dia' images from ten apps (Mayara Aguiar, 2023)
soft-focus stock photographs of a yawning dog, a swan at sunset, coffee cups, roses, daisies and beaches under 'Bom dia!' in script or in bold outlined sans capitals; quote boxes and photographs stamped '@Silver apps' or 'AppStars Developers'; pastel weekday cards, type-only ('QUARTOU') or with a cartoon sloth ('Segundouu'); and jokes such as a dog in sunglasses, a giraffe blowing gum and a meme cat captioned 'Bom DiA grupo'
TypeZap (2017), the advertising professional Spartakus Santiago's site of tasteful 'bom dia' and birthday images, made against originals he called 'tudo muito brega, mas de coração', such as a giant daisy floating on the ocean (TechTudo, 29 June 2017)
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Sources
- Newley Purnell, 'The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of "Good Morning!" Texts', The Wall Street Journal (January 2018): https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internet-is-filling-up-because-indians-are-sending-millions-of-good-morning-texts-1516640068, read in the reprint at GDN Online: https://www.gdnonline.com/Details/304283/Indians-send-over-20-million-Good-Morning-Whatsapp-messages-and-its-killing-the-internet (Google researchers traced freezing phones to 'sun-dappled flowers, adorable toddlers, birds and sunsets'; posting starts before sunrise and peaks before 8 a.m.; a toddler in a fedora, Krishna with a quote, a red rose; searches for 'Good Morning images' up tenfold in five years and Pinterest downloads ninefold in a year; Western Digital survey: one in three Indian smartphone users run out of space daily, against one in ten in the US; Files Go, unveiled in New Delhi in December 2017, finds and deletes the images; WishGoodMorning.com launched in 2015 by Kanwarjot Singh; Desh Raj Sharma, 71, greets more than 50 people each morning)
- '"Good Morning" messages eating up smartphone space in India: Report', The Tribune (PTI, Washington, 23 January 2018): https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/good-morning-messages-eating-up-smartphone-space-in-india-report-532992 (flowers, toddlers, birds and sunsets; tenfold rise in searches; WhatsApp's status feature of 2017 used to greet all contacts at once)
- 'Good morning messages: Google says one in three phones in India slowed down because of these images', Scroll.in (23 January 2018): https://scroll.in/latest/866046/spate-of-good-morning-messages-slows-down-one-in-three-smartphones-in-india-wsj (links the WSJ report; Files Go used Google's image database and AI to find good-morning messages, more than 10 million downloads, mostly in India)
- Durga Prasad Panda, 'What Drives People To Send "Good Morning" Messages On WhatsApp', Outlook (17 November 2018): https://www.outlookindia.com/society/message-stingers-news-300885 (weekday deities, Shukra Dev on Fridays and Shani Dev on Saturdays; Mahesh Joshi's 'namaste' on valleys and flowers with 'synthetic, rubbery surfaces, dripping with freshly-deposited dew', gods and 'gleeful brown-eyed babies'; Gopal Saini, a Delhi taxi driver, sends greetings bearing gods' names with images the author calls 'neo calendar art' to 40–50 people daily; Kamlesh Tetarwal, a school head in Jhunjhunu, drafts, designs and sends his messages on his morning walk to nearly 5,000 people through about ten broadcast lists and ten groups; the text of one opens with 'Om Sai Ram' in Devanagari flanked by two conch shells and ends with 'Shubh Prabhaat' bracketed by bouquet and folded-hands emoji)
- Yuri Neri, 'Mensagens de bom dia: por que imagens são tão populares entre pessoas idosas?', TechTudo (30 October 2024): https://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/2024/10/mensagens-de-bom-dia-por-que-imagens-sao-tao-populares-entre-pessoas-idosas-edapps.ghtml (flowers, birds and children as favourites; a coffee cup among flowers with a religious text; landscapes, sunsets, butterflies and heart-shaped hands with so much text and watermarks that almost no free space is left; saints of the day; Facebook group 'Lindas mensagens', 1.3 million members, about 80 good-morning images by 7.10 a.m.; Marcos Favero's M3 Apps and its 'Frases e Mensagens de Bom Dia', which stopped reusing other people's images and found a designer to make its own 'com o Photoshop e o Adobe Illustrator', later hiring freelance translators for users in other countries, 75% women; the content creator Michella de Souza of Cabo Frio, who makes customisable Canva templates, mostly for Instagram, looks for references on Pinterest and says 'quanto mais fofinho, melhor'; the psychologist Débora Leitão: 'nenhuma imagem de bom dia tem um tom triste')
- Marcos Vinícius Pereira, 'Ainda manda "bom dia" no WhatsApp? Veja o que isso revela sobre você', TechTudo (17 July 2025): https://www.techtudo.com.br/listas/2025/07/ainda-manda-bom-dia-no-whatsapp-veja-o-que-isso-revela-sobre-voce-edapps.ghtml ('gifs com glitter, mensagens religiosas, fotos de jardins' and 'Tenha uma quarta-feira abençoada' as a repertoire associated with parents, grandparents and uncles)
- Gabriela Teodoro Cruz, 'Você ignora os "bom dia" no WhatsApp? Eles podem dizer mais do que você imagina', B News São Paulo (18 July 2025): https://www.bnewssaopaulo.com.br/amp/noticias/entretenimento/voce-ignora-os-bom-dia-no-whatsapp-eles-podem-dizer-mais-do-que-voce-imagina.html (sent mostly by parents, grandparents and uncles in the family group; flowers, glitter, prayers and a font that recalls a 1999 greeting card; a 'café da manhã digital')
- Thássius Veloso, 'Mensagem de "bom dia" no WhatsApp: brasileiro quer eliminar a breguice', TechTudo (29 June 2017): https://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/2017/06/brasileiro-lanca-projeto-para-embelezar-mensagens-de-bom-dia-do-whatsapp.ghtml (the publicitário Spartakus Santiago's TypeZap; the originals 'tudo muito brega, mas de coração', a giant daisy floating on the ocean)
- Mayara Aguiar, 'Mensagem de bom dia para WhatsApp grátis: confira com imagens lindas', TechTudo (21 August 2023, updated 10 August 2026): https://www.techtudo.com.br/listas/2023/08/mensagem-de-bom-dia-para-whatsapp-gratis-confira-com-imagens-lindas-edapps.ghtml (ten apps, one with a folder of 'mensagem de bom dia engraçada para WhatsApp, incluindo memes', and three with Spanish package names such as com.themasterapp.frasesbonitasdebuenosdias and com.frasesyreflexiones.mensajesdebuenosdiastardesynoches; 52 of the 60 gallery images, credited to Bom Dia Imagens Bonitas, Frases de Bom dia com Imagens, Bom Dia Zap Zap, Bom dia Tarde e Boa Noite, Mensagens prontas & frases, Dias da semana and others, examined on 19 October 2026: the greeting in script on about a fifth, in bold outlined, condensed, rounded or plain sans on most; no ornament beyond text and watermark on about half; square, upright and landscape frames in about equal numbers; flat pastel and type-only cards and joking animal pictures; handles and watermarks '@Silver apps', 'AppStars Developers', mensagensprontas.app, Criar Meme, megafrases and NOSSODEUS)
- WishGoodMorning.com, home page and the 'Good Morning Wishes in Hindi' and 'With Flowers' pages, examined 19 October 2026: https://www.wishgoodmorning.com/pictures/good-morning-wishes-in-hindi/ (pictures sorted by recipient; Hindi verses in Devanagari over a sunrise, a robin, a leaf and bare trees above 'Good Morning' or 'सुप्रभात!' in outlined and shadowed display letters, with the site's round watermark; yellow roses with 'good morning' in white script)
- Camila Camargo, 'Seleção de serviços online para o Orkut', TecMundo (17 October 2008): https://www.tecmundo.com.br/mercado/762-selecao-de-servicos-online-para-o-orkut.htm, now at https://www.estadao.com.br/tecmundo/big-techs/762-selecao-de-servicos-online-para-o-orkut/ ('serviços purpurinados e glitterinados' for Orkut scraps: Glitterfy for glitter and a phrase over a photo, Glitter Graphics images pasted into scraps, and Sparkle Tags to thank, declare love, 'desejar um bom dia' or send a kiss)
- 'Happy vishu', SlideShare deck of the scrap site goodlightscraps.com (site © 2009–2012; deck captured 5 April 2012): https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/happy-vishu/12292709 ('Vishu Greetings, Vishu Scraps and E-Cards for Orkut, Myspace, Facebook'; 'vishu glitter graphics'; scrap categories including 'Good Morning', 'Good Night', Monday to Sunday scraps and flowers and roses)
- 'Orkut', Wikipedia, read 19 October 2026: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut (launched January 2004, closed 30 September 2014; 'one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008'; the scrapbook as a guestbook of HTML-enabled scraps)
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