Add Text to Image — Write on Photos with Fonts & Colours

What is an Add Text to Image Tool?

An Add Text to Image tool (फोटो पर टेक्स्ट लिखने वाला टूल) lets you write words on top of a picture — a caption, a name, a quote, a price, a date or a title. It is one of the most common edits people make for social media posts, greeting cards, YouTube thumbnails, event announcements, shop offers and memes. Doing it well means more than typing: the text must be readable on the photo, sized correctly and placed where it does not hide the important part of the image.

This tool gives you a live canvas preview of your photo with fully editable text layers. Choose from eight fonts, set the size as a percentage of the image width, pick the text colour, add an outline and a soft shadow, choose bold or italic and the alignment, and drag the text anywhere. You can add up to ten separate texts, each with its own style.

When you download, the text is drawn onto your image at its original resolution, so the result stays sharp. All of this happens in your browser; your photo is never uploaded.

Key Features

• Multiple text layers: up to 10, each fully independent.
• Drag to position: move any text directly on the image.
• Eight fonts: Poppins, Impact, Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Times New Roman and Courier New.
• Size control as a percentage of image width, so text looks the same on small and large photos.
• Colours: any text colour and any outline colour.
• Outline width from 0% to 30% of the text size.
• Bold, italic and shadow toggles.
• Alignment: left, centre or right, with multi-line text.
• Hindi and other scripts using your device's fonts.
• Full-resolution download as JPG, PNG or WebP — free, private, no watermark.

How to Add Text to an Image — Step by Step

1. Open the tool and choose or drop your photo.
2. Edit the default text — type your caption in the Text box.
3. Pick a font and adjust the size slider.
4. Set the colours: text colour and outline colour; adjust outline width.
5. Toggle bold, italic or shadow and choose the alignment.
6. Drag the text on the image to position it.
7. Add more text with Add text if you need a second line or label.
8. Download in your preferred format.

Making Text Readable on Any Photo

The biggest problem with text on images is contrast. White text disappears on a bright sky, and black text vanishes in shadows. An outline solves this because every letter gets a border in the opposite colour, so the text stands out whatever is behind it. A soft shadow adds depth and helps on mid-tone backgrounds.

Size matters too. On a phone screen, text smaller than about 4–5% of the image width is hard to read in a social feed. Headlines on thumbnails often work at 8–12%. Keep lines short — three to six words per line — and leave some margin from the edges, because platforms often crop or round the corners of images.

Safe Zones for Social Media and Thumbnails

Each platform covers parts of your image with its own interface. On YouTube, the video duration appears in the bottom-right corner of thumbnails, so keep important text away from that area. On Instagram Stories and Reels, the profile name sits at the top and the reply bar and captions at the bottom, so keep key text within the middle area of a 9:16 image. Square posts may be shown with rounded corners in some apps, and profile pictures are cropped into circles. A good rule is to keep text at least 5–10% away from every edge and to check how your image looks at small sizes before posting.

Writing in Hindi and Other Indian Languages

You can type Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil or any other script your keyboard supports, or paste text from elsewhere. Fonts like Poppins and Arial contain only Latin letters, so the browser automatically uses a Devanagari or other script font installed on your device for those characters. Results look clean on Android, iPhone, Windows and Mac. For mixed text — for example a Hindi greeting with an English name — the letters of each script are drawn with the right font automatically. Outline and shadow work the same for every script, which helps Hindi text stay readable on colourful festival photos.

Working with Multiple Text Layers

Use separate layers whenever parts of your text need different styles — a large headline and a smaller subtitle, a name and a date, or a price and a product name. Click a layer's button above the controls (or click the text on the image) to select it; the controls then edit only that layer. New layers appear at different heights so they do not overlap, and Delete selected removes the current one.

Why Choose the Prompt Minds Add Text to Image Tool?

Many photo apps add their own watermark, ask you to sign up, or compress the image heavily when you export. This tool keeps your photo at its original resolution, adds no watermark, and never uploads the image.

It is also built for Indian users: Hindi and other Indian scripts work out of the box using your device's fonts, so you can add names, wishes and captions in your own language. Multiple layers, outline and shadow controls give you the flexibility of a design app in a simple page that loads instantly.

Choosing a Font

Bold, simple fonts such as Poppins, Impact and Verdana are easiest to read at small sizes and on phones, which makes them ideal for thumbnails, memes and social posts. Serif fonts like Georgia and Times New Roman feel more classic and work well for quotes, invitations and elegant captions. Courier New gives a typewriter look for retro or technical designs. Using one font for the headline and a second, simpler font for smaller details keeps the design clean.

10 Real-World Use Cases

1. Social media captions on Instagram and Facebook photos.
2. YouTube thumbnail headlines that grab attention.
3. Festival and birthday wishes with names in Hindi or English.
4. Shop offers and price labels on product photos.
5. Event posters with date, time and venue.
6. Memes with top and bottom text.
7. Quotes and motivational posts on scenic photos.
8. Labelling screenshots for tutorials and guides.
9. Adding your name or handle to artwork and photography.
10. Classroom and presentation visuals with titles and notes.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Low contrast. Add an outline or shadow when text sits on a busy area.
• Text too small. What looks fine on a laptop can be unreadable on a phone.
• Too much text. Keep image text short; put details in the post caption.
• Covering faces or the subject. Place text in empty areas such as sky or walls.
• Text at the very edge. Platforms may crop it — leave a margin.
• Mixing too many fonts. Use one or two fonts per image for a clean look.

Browser Support and Limits

The tool works in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Samsung Internet on phones and computers. It accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF (first frame) and BMP images up to 25 MB; images larger than 8,000 pixels on a side are scaled to 8,000 pixels. Each text can be up to 300 characters, with up to 10 text layers. System fonts such as Impact and Georgia may be replaced by similar fonts on devices that do not have them; Poppins is loaded from the web and looks the same everywhere.

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