Text Effect Generator
Set the width you are actually printing and the file comes out that size. A word styled for a 250 mm shirt front needs about 2950 pixels across — not the 800 that most generators hand you.
Vertical blend between both colours.
Typical adult chest print width.
Output
- Print size
- 250 × 0 mm
- Pixels
- 0 × 0
- Resolution
- 300 DPI
- Rendered at
- 0 px type
- Ink coverage
- 0%
Checks
- Background suits the effectNothing about this effect depends on a background you are not exporting.
- 0% semi-transparent pixelsEdges are crisp enough for a clean white underbase.
- Thinnest part 0 mmWide enough to survive weeding and printing.
- 0.0 megapixelsA comfortable file size for this output.
Why 800 × 400 is not a print file
Pixels on their own mean nothing. What matters is how many of them land in each millimetre of the finished print. A file 800 pixels wide is generous for a website banner and hopeless on a shirt: stretched across a 250 mm chest print it works out at roughly 81 DPI, which is soft and visibly stepped along every diagonal. The same artwork rendered for that width at 300 DPI needs about 2950 pixels.
This page works the other way round from most generators. You choose the physical width first, the type is fitted to it, and the canvas is created at the pixel dimensions that width demands. The preview you see is that canvas scaled down for the screen, so nothing is upsampled on the way out.
Transparency is where glow effects go wrong
A neon effect is convincing because light appears to spill onto a dark surround. Export it on a transparent background and the surround is gone — what remains is a pale halo that vanishes against a white garment. The page flags this combination rather than letting you find out after the transfer is pressed.
Semi-transparent pixels matter for a second reason. DTF printing builds a white underbase by thresholding the alpha channel, so a soft gradient edge becomes a hard jagged one at whatever cut-off the RIP uses. The panel reports what proportion of the artwork sits in that partly-transparent band so you can judge whether it will be a problem.
Questions
Which typefaces are available?
Thirty families that the site loads itself, grouped by style. Because the fonts are served with the page rather than assumed to be installed, the render is identical on every machine — a generic name such as sans-serif resolves differently on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Why does the height change on its own?
You set the width; the height follows from the shape of the word and the space each effect needs around it. A glow needs far more room than flat colour, so the canvas grows to keep it from being clipped.
Can I get a vector file?
Not from this page. These effects are pixel operations — glows, gradients and bevels have no vector equivalent. For a cuttable outline use the cake topper or sticker tools, which trace real paths.
What DPI should I choose?
Garment and sticker work is normally 300. Posters seen at arm's length are fine at 200. Banners read from several metres need only 100 or so, and dropping the DPI keeps the file manageable.
Why is my text smaller than the width I set?
Effects need margin. The type is fitted to the usable area after room is reserved for the glow, shadow or outline, so nothing runs off the edge of the file.