1. A display panel comprising: a lower substrate comprising a gate line which extends in a first direction, a data line which extends in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a pixel electrode adjacent to the gate line and the data line and overlapping a pixel area of the display panel in a plan view, and a first alignment layer on the pixel electrode; an upper substrate which faces the lower substrate, and comprises a common electrode, and a second alignment layer on the common electrode, wherein the common electrode is configured to form an electric field with the pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, wherein the pixel area comprises a plurality of domains, a longitudinal domain boundary texture area disposed between the domains along the first direction, and a transverse domain boundary texture area disposed between the domains along the second direction, wherein pretilted angles of the first and the second alignment layers in the domains with respect to a surface parallel with one of the substrates are different from pretilted angles of the first and the second alignment layers with respect to the surface in both of the longitudinal domain boundary texture area and the transverse domain boundary texture area, and wherein a width of the longitudinal domain boundary texture area along the first direction is greater than a width of the transverse domain boundary texture area along the second direction.