Undertale Font Generator

What the Undertale Font Generator Does

The look this page reproduces is a text box, not a typeface on its own. Three things create it: a plain monospaced-feeling pixel alphabet with no outline or shadow, pure white on pure black so the contrast is absolute, and a one-pixel white rule drawn just inside the edge of the frame. Take away the border and you have plain pixel text; add it back and the same words read as a line of game dialogue.

Because the renderer draws each letter from a bitmap grid rather than substituting lookalike characters, you get controls a copy-and-paste tool cannot offer. The pixel size slider takes the text from a fine grid up to heavy blocks. The colour pickers recolour every style at once, which is how you get the character-coloured variants people usually want — a red line, a cyan line, an orange line. The Battle Box preset thickens the border and widens the padding for the squarer frame used in combat scenes.

The dialogue styles are the only ones on the site that use left alignment rather than centring, because a text box reads as a text box only when the lines start flush at the left edge. Press Enter in the input to add a second or third line and it will wrap the way a real box does.

Dialogue and Battle Styles on This Page

All twelve presets draw the same bitmap alphabet. What changes is the frame, the colour and how much glow sits behind the letters.

• Dialogue Box — White text, black field, a thin white border and generous padding. Left-aligned, and the closest match to a standard RPG text box.
• Determination — The same white-on-black text with no border, for when you want the line without the frame.
• Battle Box — A thicker two-pixel border and wider padding, in all caps — the squarer frame used for combat text.
• Red Soul — Red letters with a soft red halo on black.
• Golden Flower — A warm gold gradient on near-black.
• Bone Blue — Pale cyan letters with a blue glow.
• Orange Attack — Amber letters with a warm glow, the counterpart to the blue.
• Glitched — White letters with red and cyan copies offset one pixel either side, for a corrupted-signal look.
• Terminal — Bright green on pure black, plainer and more computer-like.
• CRT Monitor — Pale green with scanlines drawn over the whole image.
• Midnight Pixel — Cyan letters with a dark outline on deep navy — the least game-specific of the dark styles.
• Transparent PNG — No background at all, for compositing the text onto your own artwork.

Making a Dialogue Box That Reads Correctly

A convincing text box is mostly about line breaks. Real dialogue boxes are narrow and break early — usually somewhere between thirty and forty characters — and they keep a consistent left margin, which is why the dialogue presets here do not centre their text. Type your own line breaks rather than letting one long line run: press Enter where the box would break, and the frame will size itself around the block you built.

Lines in this style also conventionally open with an asterisk and a space, and that character is in the alphabet, so “* You feel determined.” renders exactly as typed. Sentence case reads better than all caps for narration; save the all-caps treatment for the Battle Box preset, where it belongs.

Character-coloured text is the other thing people come here for, and Custom colours is how you get it: pick the exact hex value you want and it replaces the text colour on every preset while leaving the frame white. A useful trick is to draft in Dialogue Box at a small pixel size to get the line breaks right, then raise the pixel size and switch presets once the wording is settled — the layout will not shift, because the pixel grid scales uniformly.

Undertale Font Examples to Try

Paste any of these in to see how the presets handle punctuation, multiple lines and short labels.

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