Curved Text Generator

Curved Text Generator (trycurvedtext.com) is a small, free, browser-only workshop for curving text. You type your words, bend the baseline with a slider, and download the result as a PNG.

Four shapes are supported: Arc (bend up for a varsity or team-shirt look, down for a valley), Circle (a full ring with separate top and bottom text, where the bottom line is set the right way up rather than upside down), Wave (with independent height and length sliders), and Custom path (drag four handles and the letters follow the curve you draw). You can set letter spacing, pick from bundled fonts, choose a colour, and add an outline for text that will sit on a busy photo.

The point of the tool is the last mile, not the curving itself. Most ways of curving text hand you a white rectangle - a screenshot, a canvas that was filled before the letters were drawn, or a snippet that paints a background it never mentions. This generator clears the canvas instead of filling it, so the exported PNG carries a genuine alpha channel and drops straight any colour. Typical uses are mug and tumbler prints, shop signs and listing images, Instagram graphics, and journal or planner stickers cut on a Cricut.

There is no account, no login and no email wall, nothing is uploaded to a server, and the bundled fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so anything you make can be used commercially with no credit required.