Picfont

Picfont is a long-running free web tool for adding styled text to a picture, with curved text, glow, gradients and textures.

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Overview

Picfont puts styled text on a picture. You start from an upload or a blank canvas, type your words, then set the font, color, transparency and rotation. Letters can carry a glow, a gradient or a texture, and text can be bent along a curve. Preset sizes cover social posts, thumbnails, logos, book covers and ads, so you begin at the right dimensions.

It is manual with no AI, so you place and style every element yourself. It runs in the browser, with a desktop layout and a mobile layout, and nothing to install. It is free with no account, and carries ads. You export as JPG, PNG, PDF or WebP.

Key features

✓Adds styled text to any image
✓Curved text along a path
✓Glow, gradient and texture on letters
✓Control of font, color, transparency and rotation
✓Start from an upload or a blank canvas
✓Preset sizes for social, thumbnails and logos
✓Custom canvas up to 5000 pixels
✓Import your own font
✓Exports as JPG, PNG, PDF or WebP
✓Free with no account

When to use

Use Picfont if:

  • You want to add a caption, title or label to a photo and download it.
  • You want styled letters, such as a curve, glow, gradient or texture, not only plain text.
  • You want to start at a set size for a social post, thumbnail, logo or book cover.
  • You want a free tool that needs no account and opens in the browser.
  • You would rather place and style the text yourself than have a tool generate a design.

When NOT to use

Skip Picfont if any of these describe you:

  • You want a full design tool with layers and shapes. Picfont is built around styling text on an image. Other text and overlay tools do the wider job.
  • You want AI to generate a layout or suggest a design. This is a manual tool where you place and style everything by hand.
  • Your source image is over 6 MB. Uploads are capped there, so a large camera file needs shrinking first.
  • You are working through a large batch. It handles one image at a time by hand, so twenty captions means twenty passes.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. You can add text and download the result as an image for free, with no account and nothing to buy. The site carries ads. It has been available for many years.

No. Picfont is a manual tool. You choose the font, place the text and style it yourself. There are templates, models and illustrations to start from, and a button that drops in a random picture to design on.

You can download your image as a JPG, PNG, PDF or WebP. Uploads are limited to PNG, JPEG and GIF files of up to 6 MB, so a large camera file may need shrinking first.

Yes. You can set text on a curve and apply glow, a gradient, a texture, transparency and rotation to the letters.

Yes. Picfont has a desktop layout and a mobile layout in the browser. There is no separate app to install.

It includes preset sizes for uses like logos, thumbnails, social posts and book covers, and you can set your own canvas up to 5000 pixels. For a full logo or cover design with shapes, images and layers, a broader design tool will do more than text styling.

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