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Printable Bubble Letters

Big hollow letters to print and colour in.

Your letters

Press Enter for a second line. The type resizes itself to fill the page.

Leave them empty to colour in. Untick to fill them with a colour.

Untick for a transparent PNG to drop onto something else.

Untick “hollow letters” to use a fill.

Your page

The PNG downloads at 300 dpi, which is print quality at this page size. Printing from here uses your browser’s own print dialogue, so you can send it straight to paper or save it as a PDF.

Type a word and get it back as fat outlined letters, sized to fill a page and ready to print. Five letter styles, an outline you can thicken or thin, and hollow centres so there is something to colour. Downloads as a 300 dpi PNG or prints straight from the browser.

Why use this tool?

Five letter styles

From a fat round balloon face to a hand-drawn marker. The style is the whole point of a bubble letter, so there is more than one.

Fills the page

The type resizes itself to the widest it can be while still fitting, so a three-letter name and a two-line phrase both come out right.

Hollow by default

Empty centres with a clean outline, which is what a colouring page needs. Fill them with a colour instead if you are making a poster.

Print quality

300 dpi PNG, or print directly. A4 and US Letter in both orientations, plus a square for posting.

How this printable bubble letters works

The letters are drawn onto a canvas rather than assembled from images, which is what lets every setting change the result live. The outline is stroked around the glyph shape at a width proportional to the type size, so thickening the outline on a small word and a large one gives the same visual weight rather than swallowing one and disappearing on the other.

Sizing works backwards from the page. Rather than asking you to pick a point size and discover it does not fit, the tool searches for the largest size at which every line still sits inside the margins. It has to search rather than calculate, because letter spacing adds a fixed amount per gap while the glyphs themselves scale — so the width of a line is not simply proportional to its type size.

The fill is painted before the outline, never after. A stroke straddles the edge of the shape it follows, so half of it falls inside the letter — painting the fill afterwards would cover that half and leave an outline that looks thin on the inside and ragged where letters overlap.

What you see is what downloads. The preview and the exported PNG are produced by the same drawing code at different resolutions, rather than by a separate export routine. Tools that keep two paths are how you end up approving one image and receiving another.

How to use it

  1. Step 1: Type your word

    A name, a word, a short phrase. Press Enter for a second line.

  2. Step 2: Pick a style and a page

    Five letter styles, and A4 or US Letter in either orientation. Adjust the outline thickness until it looks right for the age of whoever is colouring it.

  3. Step 3: Print or download

    Print straight from the browser, or download a 300 dpi PNG to use somewhere else.

Example usage

A name for a bedroom door
One word, uppercase, thick outline, printed on A4 landscape and coloured in before it goes on the door.
Classroom display lettering
A word per page at maximum size, cut out and pinned up along a wall to spell out a heading.
A card or poster
Untick hollow letters, pick a fill colour, and turn off the white background for a transparent PNG to drop onto a design.

Frequently asked questions

How do I print these?

Press Print and use your browser's own print dialogue, which also lets you save as a PDF. Everything except the artwork is hidden from the printed page. If you want to keep the file, Download PNG gives you a 300 dpi image that is print quality at these page sizes.

Why are my letters hollow?

Because that is what makes them colourable, and it is the default for that reason. Untick “hollow letters” and pick a fill colour if you want them solid — useful for a poster or a card rather than a colouring sheet.

Can I make the outline thicker for a young child?

Yes, and it is worth doing. A thicker outline is easier to stay inside and more forgiving of a wandering crayon. The thickness slider is a percentage of the letter size, so it stays proportionate whatever length of word you type.

How is this different from your bubble text generator?

Completely. The bubble text generator swaps your characters for circled Unicode ones you can copy and paste into a bio or a username — real text, not a picture. This one draws letters as artwork to print. If you want something to paste, you want the other tool.

Can I use these commercially?

The images you make are yours. The typefaces behind them are open-licensed fonts, which permit commercial use of the output. If you plan to build a product around the lettering itself rather than use it in a design, check the individual font licence first.

Why does the text shrink when I add more letters?

Because it is always drawn as large as it can be while still fitting inside the page margins. A longer word has to be smaller to fit the same width. For big letters on a long phrase, split it over two lines with Enter, or print a word per page and put them side by side.

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