Curved Text with a Transparent Background
Type your text, bend it, keep Transparent background ticked and press Download PNG. The file you get has a real alpha channel — no white box behind the letters, nothing to cut out afterwards.
How to get curved text with a transparent background
- Type your words in Your text.
- Pick a shape and drag Curve until the bend looks right.
- Leave Transparent background ticked. That checkbox is the whole trick.
- Pick an export size and press Download PNG.
The grey checkerboard behind the preview is how this page draws “nothing is here”. It is part of the page, not part of the file — it is never exported.
How transparent the file actually is
Transparency is easy to claim and easy to measure, so here is the measurement. We count the
pixels in the exported file whose alpha value is exactly zero — fully see-through, no
half-measures. A file taken from the download button above at 1600 × 1000 comes out
95.81% fully transparent; the remaining few per cent is the lettering itself. All four
corner pixels read 0, 0, 0, 0. The same file gives the same reading in
desktop Chrome and on a phone-sized Chrome profile.
Across the four shapes and the four bundled display fonts the reading sits between 93.36% (a full circle, which simply has more ink in it) and 97.75%. None of these numbers come from looking at a screenshot — they are read out of the PNG’s own alpha channel.
Why the usual routes hand you a white box
- Screenshots. A screenshot records what is on the screen, and the screen has a background. There is no alpha channel to save.
- A canvas that was filled before the text was drawn. One line of setup paints the whole rectangle white, and every letter after it lands on paint. This page clears the canvas instead of filling it.
- Code copied from an AI assistant. The bending part is usually fine; the export step is where it goes wrong. We ran that route ourselves: the generated code produced a file that was 93.58% transparent once the right export option was set — and 0.00% transparent, a solid white rectangle, when the same instructions were followed without it. Nothing in the output tells you which one you got.
Where a transparent background actually matters
- Lettering laid over a photo, a product shot or a coloured poster, with no pale rectangle around it.
- Text sitting on a dark or patterned social post.
- Artwork going into a print or cutting tool, where the background would otherwise be treated as part of the design.
- An overlay on video, where a white box is the giveaway that something was pasted in.
How to check a PNG is really transparent
Do not trust a thumbnail — most file browsers draw thumbnails on white, so a transparent PNG and a white-backed one look identical there. Instead, drop the file onto something dark: a dark-mode document, a black slide, or any editor that shows transparency as a checkerboard. If the background of the image disappears and only the letters remain, the alpha channel is real.
FAQ
Does the checkerboard end up in my PNG?
No. It is drawn by this page behind the preview so you can see where the empty area is. The exported file contains the letters and nothing else.
Can I get a white background instead?
Yes — untick Transparent background before you download and the file is exported on white.
What sizes can I export?
800 × 500, 1600 × 1000 or 3200 × 2000. Transparency is identical in all three; the larger sizes just have more pixels.
Does it work the same on a phone?
The drawing and the export are done by your browser, and the transparency readings above were taken on a phone-sized browser profile as well as on desktop. On an iPhone the page offers the image for press-and-hold saving, because that is how iOS puts a picture into Photos.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. There is no account, no upload and no server step. The PNG is made on your device.
Other shapes: circle, arched and wavy text, or start from the main generator.