Meme Generator

You bring the image

This has no template library. If you came looking for Drake or Distracted Boyfriend, a template site will get you there faster.

What this is for is the meme made from a picture you already have: a screenshot from a group chat, a photo of a colleague mid-sentence, something from the office, a family picture. Those are the ones you would rather not upload to a meme site at all — and they are also the ones that actually land, because the audience is in on it.

Why the outline matters more than the font

Meme text is white with a black outline for a practical reason, not just tradition. Photos are busy, and white text on a pale patch of a photo disappears. The outline guarantees the words stay readable wherever they land.

The outline width runs from 0 to 12 and starts at 3, which suits most images. Push it higher on a busy or high-contrast picture; drop it toward 1 on a plain background where a heavy outline just looks clumsy. Setting it to 0 removes the outline, and on most photographs you will immediately see why nobody does that.

Impact is the default because it is the meme typeface and the reason memes look like memes. The other three are there when you want a different tone — Comic Sans deliberately, Georgia for something drier.

The font size scales with the image

Size is set as a percentage of the picture's height rather than in fixed pixels, from 4% to 20%, starting at 10%. That means the same setting looks right on a small screenshot and a large photo, instead of being tiny on one and enormous on the other. The text also defaults to uppercase, which is the convention — switch to "as typed" when the joke depends on the capitalisation.

No watermark, and nothing uploaded

Several well-known meme makers stamp their own branding onto anything made on a free account, which is why so many of their competitors advertise "no watermark" in the title. There is none here, and no signup either.

Everything happens in the page, so a screenshot with names, a work photo or a picture of your kids is not travelling to anyone's server to have two lines of text put on it.

Related tools

Add Text to Image places text anywhere on an image rather than in the fixed top-and-bottom meme layout. Crop Image tightens the framing first, which usually improves a meme more than any text setting, and Compress Image reduces the file size for sharing.