- 3 by 5 or 5 by 7
- free colors only
- PNG download
Your words, one square at a time.
Type a name, a tag or a sign, pick a face and an ink, and it comes out as pixels with the count beside it. Download the PNG for an overlay, or put it straight on the map here.
- Letters, digits and punctuation
- Line breaks
- Transparent or solid background
The template opens over your street on the map, and auto-color picks each pixel's color under the pointer as you paint.
29 by 7 cells, 73 of them ink.
- Pixels
- 73
- On wplace
- 37 min36m at one charge every 30 seconds
- On Place Pixels
- 1 saveone save, from a new wallet
The two faces
3 by 5 is the smallest face that keeps every capital and digit distinct, and it is what most wplace signage is painted at. 5 by 7 is the dot-matrix face: rounder, easier to read from a zoomed-out map, about twice the pixels.
Lettering is the first thing another painter draws over. A one-pixel outline in a contrasting background costs a few dozen extra pixels and survives a stray brush far better than bare ink on the map's own colors.
Common questions
What is the smallest readable text on wplace?
A 3 by 5 face, with one blank column between letters. Every capital letter and digit stays distinct at that size; lowercase does not, which is why both faces here are uppercase only.
How many pixels is a word?
In the 3 by 5 face a five-letter word is about 55 ink pixels; in 5 by 7 about 100. The count under the preview is exact for what you typed, and at one charge every 30 seconds that is the wait.
Can I add a background so the text reads over busy ground?
Yes. Pick a background color and every cell in the block is painted, which costs more pixels but protects the lettering from whatever is behind it.
Which colors can the text use?
Any of the 31 free wplace colors, for ink and for background, so nothing here needs droplets.
Can I place the text on Place Pixels?
Put it on the map and it opens as a template over your street. One save places up to 5,000 pixels, so a sign goes down in one go.
One shared map of the real world, cut into 10-meter squares. Find the street you live on, pick a color, and paint it.
start painting