How it works
This metal font generator draws a band name in one of 6 fonts and opens on a white spiked outline over black. It suits a demo cover, a flyer or a shirt mock-up.
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Pick the genre by font
For a heavy metal font generator, stay on Metal Mania: chipped small capitals drawn after album covers and posters. New Rocker is a readable blackletter hybrid. For a black metal font generator, pick Pirata One or UnifrakturCook, then Plain under Look and White under Colours in More options: the photocopied look of early covers. Eater grows thorns and Butcherman is hacked and dripping, so start there for deathcore.
What a death metal font generator cannot do
A font draws each letter the same way and keeps letters apart, so it cannot mirror a name or knot it into one shape. The logo stays readable. Spiky outline sharpens every corner. In More options, Strength of the look thickens the spikes and Bulge, under Shape, swells the middle.
Tips
- Red or gold letters get a dark edge that vanishes on black. Set Outline colour to white in More options.
- All six metal fonts hold ä, ë, ï, ö and ü. Eater draws the dots as crosses, Butcherman as squares.
- Eater and Butcherman have capitals only. Pirata One is the narrowest font, so long names come out tallest in it.
Questions and answers
What are the dots over the letters for?
Decoration. Wikipedia calls it the metal umlaut, or röck döts: a diacritic used gratuitously over letters in hard rock and heavy metal band names. It puts the first use in 1971 and ties it to blackletter type and a gothic horror feel.
Can a death metal text generator give me letters to paste?
Characters, yes. A font, no: the app that receives pasted text picks the typeface, so nothing pasted can look like Metal Mania. For letters that paste, with marks stacked above and below them, use zalgo text.
Can I put the logo on shirts and patches?
Yes, also on merch you sell: the six fonts are open-licence. Download SVG scales to any size. Rough print, 3D block and Soft glow are filters that some design programs ignore, so send those as PNG.