Meme Generator

The classic meme caption is white, in a condensed heavy typeface, with a thick black outline. The outline is what makes it work: white letters stay readable on dark areas, the black edge keeps them readable on light ones, so the same caption works on any picture without you thinking about contrast. This tool starts with exactly that: Impact (or the nearest heavy font your device has), white fill, a black outline at 9% of the font size, and all capitals.

You can change all of it. Switch off ALL CAPS for a softer look, change the outline color, or pick another font. The Korean-capable Noto Sans KR is in the list for captions in Korean.

The top and bottom captions have auto-fit switched on. Each starts at the size you set (11% of the image width by default) and wraps at 94% of the width. If the wrapped caption is taller than 30% of the image, or a single word is still wider than the line, the size is reduced in small steps until it fits. The result: a three-word caption is big, a three-sentence caption is smaller but still inside its band, and neither runs off the picture.

The size slider on an auto-fit caption is the largest size allowed, not a fixed size. Turn auto-fit off if you want a fixed size, for example to make the top and bottom lines exactly the same height. Extra text boxes do not auto-fit; their size is what you set.

• Top line sets up, bottom line pays off. Keep the joke in the bottom line, so people read the setup first.
• Fewer words means bigger letters. On a phone screen, a caption of more than about 12 words in one band gets small.
• Use an extra text box to label things in the picture rather than describing them in the caption.
• Leave faces visible. Drag the captions up or down a little if a band covers someone's eyes.

Impact is installed on Windows and macOS but not on most Android phones or Linux. Where it is missing, the browser uses the next font in the list: Arial Black if available, otherwise Noto Sans KR from this site drawn in bold. The caption still looks like a meme, just a little wider. What you see in the preview is exactly what the download will contain, so check it there.

For Korean captions, Noto Sans KR is loaded from UtilityNest the first time it is needed. ALL CAPS only changes Latin letters; Korean is left as typed.

We do not offer a template gallery of well-known meme images, because most of them are frames from films, TV and photos owned by someone else. Your own photos, your own screenshots of things you made, and images released for reuse (for example under a Creative Commons license that allows changes) are safe starting points. If you are making a meme for a company account, follow the same image rules you would for any other post.

The meme is saved at the full size of your picture. JPG (quality 90) is the smaller file and what chat apps and social sites expect. PNG keeps the edges of the letters perfectly sharp but is several times larger for photos. Either way, nothing is added: no watermark, no logo, no link.

If a site rejects the file as too large, shrink it with Compress Image. For more control over text, such as rotated labels, background boxes or more than ten boxes, use Add Text to Image, which has the same text engine without the meme defaults.