How it works
Type a title or a sound effect and this manga font generator draws it in one of 6 Japanese display fonts, with speed lines or an impact burst behind it. The fonts hold Latin, hiragana and katakana, and no kanji.
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Six fonts made in Japan
Dela Gothic One is the heaviest and widest. Reggae One has sharp wedge ends, and its maker says it is common in Japanese boys' magazines. Potta One is a fat round brush, RocknRoll One a rounded pop face. Yusei Magic, modelled on permanent-marker handwriting, sets a line about a fifth narrower than Dela Gothic One. Rampart One is an outline with a 3D shadow built in, so leave it on Plain.
Speed lines and an impact burst
Decoration has Speed lines, 48 wedges aimed at your words from the board's edges, and Impact burst, a spiked balloon behind them. New look changes the font and colours and keeps the decoration. With one on, the file keeps the whole board, 2000 by 2000 pixels, even on Transparent.
Tips
- In Top to bottom the long-vowel bar ー stays lying down, so keep ジャーン on a straight line.
- Type a kanji and your device's own font draws it, thinner than its neighbours, and the saved file may differ.
- Halftone dots fills the letters like screentone. Under More options, Strength of the look sizes the dots.
Questions and answers
What can I type into this anime text generator?
English, hiragana and katakana, drawn as typed and never translated. If you wanted an anime font generator that sets an English title in a Japanese display face, this is it. For kana, switch your keyboard to Japanese or paste the word in.
What do the Japanese sound effects on this page mean?
Japanese sound words, glossed from Wikipedia's article on them. ドキドキ is a pounding heart, きらきら is sparkling, ぎらぎら is dazzling, じろじろ is staring, ジャーン! is ta-dah, ワンワン is a dog's bark and ザーザー is falling rain. しーん is silence, which has no sound to imitate.
Does this manga text generator write top to bottom?
Yes. Open More options and set Shape to Top to bottom: each line stands up as a column, and with kana typed the columns run right to left, the way most manga dialogue is set.