Text Frame Generator: Boxes and Borders Around Text

Type your text and pick a frame. The box is drawn to fit, and wide characters like emoji are counted right.

Text frame maker

Your text

One liners

Each one wraps your text on one line. They work in any font, so they are safe for Instagram, TikTok and games. Click one to copy it.

Weights

Finish line

Fading

Space trip

Cat walk

Snowfall

Neon sign

Retro game

Magic spell

Road work

Sleepy

Coffee break

Fish

Barcode

Volume up

Sparkle

Bouncy

Princess

Shot through

Devil

Musical

Bubbles

Birthday

Manuscript

Arrow

Corner brackets

Lens brackets

Flipping

Mirrored

Smeared ink

Throwing away

Johnny

Ocean

Lenny

Angry

Donger

Love

Love emojis

Air quotes

Food

Sweets

Drinks

Vegetables

Art frames

Speech bubble

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 '-.--------------'
   |/

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Thought bubble

  .~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
 (  Text Editor  )
  `~~~~~~~~~~~~~'
   O
  o

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Shout

 \/\/\/\/\/\/\
> Text Editor <
 /\/\/\/\/\/\/
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Cat on top

                /\_/\
               ( o.o )
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| Text Editor         |
'---------------------'

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Bunny peek

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 |        Text Editor |
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Robot

  ___
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Castle

 _   _   _   _
| |_| |_| |_| |
| Text Editor |
|_____________|

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Pillars

  _______________________
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__|_|_________________|_|__

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Ticket

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Sign post

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Garden

  @    @
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^^"^"^^"^"

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Mountains

   /\
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/      \
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Rain cloud

 .-~~-.
(______)
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Simple

.-------------.
| Text Editor |
'-------------'

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Scroll

 / \---------------------,
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    \_/__________________/

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Fence

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   | |   Text Editor   | |
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(__|_|_________________|_|__)

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Picture frame

 ___________________
|  _______________  |
| |  Text Editor  | |
| |_______________| |
|___________________|

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Mirror

 /~_____________~\
 .---------------.
(|  Text Editor  |)
 '---------------'
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Butterfly

(¯`·¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸·´¯)
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  (/               \)
   (.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·)

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Wavy

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80's

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Owl

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Birds

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Dachshund

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  (_)_)                (_)_)

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Dogs

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\\"--\\                    (_/ (_/

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Cat and mouse

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Mouse and cheese

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Mosquito

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Centipede

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I Love ❤

╔══╗
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Spiderweb

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Hedgehog

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Parrots

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Blank

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Marks (names each part)

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nooooooooooooooop

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Box maker

Padding Empty lines Width Title

Make your own box

Type any character into each part. A part can have more than one character.

Top left Top Top right Left Right Bottom left Bottom Bottom right

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Boxes and art frames only line up in a monospace font, like a Discord code block. For apps that use a normal font, save a PNG.

A box made of line characters with a dachshund peeking over the top edge

Last checked October 30, 2026 by the TextEditor.com team

Why a frame bends after you paste it

A frame only works when every character is the same width. That is true in a monospace font, the kind used for code. Most apps show posts in a normal font, where "i" is thin and "W" is wide. The text lines get shorter or longer, and the right edge moves with them.

Your box in two fonts

Monospace

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│ Text Editor │
└─────────────┘

Normal font

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│ Text Editor │
└─────────────┘

Change the text or the style above and both boxes change. Try a line with many "i" letters and one with many "W".

On Discord, the "Copy for Discord" button wraps the frame in three backticks (```). That turns it into a code block, and code blocks always use a monospace font. On Instagram and other apps without code blocks, save the frame as a PNG picture instead.

The parts of a box

Lines and corners come from the Box Drawing block of Unicode. It runs from U+2500 to U+257F and holds 128 characters. Each corner has its own character, named after the directions its lines point to. The first IBM PC from 1981 had single and double lines built in, and programs used them to draw windows and menus.

A single line box and a double line box

┌U+250CLight down and right

─U+2500Light horizontal

┐U+2510Light down and left

│U+2502Light vertical

└U+2514Light up and right

┘U+2518Light up and left

╔U+2554Double down and right

═U+2550Double horizontal

╗U+2557Double down and left

║U+2551Double vertical

╚U+255ADouble up and right

╝U+255DDouble up and left

The full set, with joins and crosses, is on the drawing characters page.

Emoji and Chinese letters take two columns

Unicode gives every character a width class in a report called UAX #11. Chinese and Japanese letters and most emoji are "wide" and fill two columns in a monospace font. Accent marks that sit on a letter take no column at all. A tool that just counts characters draws the right edge in the wrong place. This page counts columns instead.

The box lines are a strange case. Unicode marks them as "ambiguous", so Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts often draw them two columns wide. In those fonts every frame on this page gets twice as wide.

Column ruler

Text to measure

Each box is one character and shows how many columns it fills. Emoji made from several parts, like 👨‍👩‍👧, still count as one.

Which frame to pick

Style	Sample	Good for
Plain ASCII	`+--+`	Code comments, old terminals and any font. Only uses keys on your keyboard.
Line boxes	`┌─┐ ╔═╗ ╭─╮`	Discord code blocks, README files and notes.
Blocks	`▛▀▜`	Bold headers that should stand out.
Art frames	`(o o)`	Fun posts in a code block or a PNG.
One liners	`█▓▒░ hi ░▒▓█`	Names, bios and chats. Nothing has to line up, so any font works.

For symbols around a name, like ꧁༺ Name ༻꧂, see text decorations.

Need a bigger headline inside the box? Make it with big text letters first and paste the result into the box above. For birthday cards with pictures, see the text art messages.

Text art that goes with a frame

Frequently asked questions

How do I put a box around text?

Type your text in the box at the top of this page and pick a style. Copy the result and paste it where you want it. The box grows to fit the longest line.

Why is the right side of my frame crooked after pasting?

The app shows your text in a normal font, where letters have different widths. Put the frame in a code block if the app has one, or save it as a PNG picture.

How do I keep a text frame straight on Discord?

Use "Copy for Discord". It puts three backticks before and after the frame, which makes a code block. Discord shows code blocks in a monospace font, so every line stays the same width.

Can I use emoji inside a text frame?

Yes. This page counts an emoji as two columns, like most monospace fonts do. Some fonts draw a few emoji wider or narrower, so check the result once in the app you paste into.

Can I frame more than one line?

Yes. Press Enter in the text box to start a new line. Every line gets the same width, and you can center or right align them with the Align buttons.

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