Free Meme Generator — Create Funny Memes Online

Tanya needed a quick birthday meme for her friend. She wanted bold white text, a black outline, and perfect centering on a photo she’d taken. Ten minutes later she had a meme everyone loved. That’s what a good meme generator does: it removes the friction between a spark of humor and a shareable image.

What is this

The Free Meme Generator is a small web app (usually built with HTML5 Canvas) that combines an image with user-supplied text overlays. Typical inputs:

• Top Text — the line that appears at the top of the image.
  
• Bottom Text — the punchline at the bottom.
  
• Text Color — choose text hue (white, black, colored).
  
• Font Size — manual or auto-fit option.
  
• Upload Your Own Image (Optional) — use your own photo or a blank canvas / template.
  
• Generate Image button produces a single image file ready to download or share.
  

The “formula”

Below are practical, repeatable rules used by good meme tools and designers:

1. Font & style

• Default font for traditional memes: Impact (uppercase), bold.
  
• Fill color: usually white.
  
• Stroke (outline): black stroke for readability.
  

2. Font sizing (auto-fit formula)

Auto font size is based on image width:

fontSize_px = imageWidth_px × 0.07

(About 6–8% of image width is a good starting point; smaller for long text.)

3. Stroke width (outline thickness)

strokeWidth_px = fontSize_px × 0.08

(≈8% of font size keeps text legible when scaled.)

4. Text wrapping and max characters per line

Measure text width with measureText() and split into lines so that:

maxLineWidth_px = imageWidth_px × 0.92  // keep 4% margin each side

5. Vertical placement (safe zones)

• Top text baseline = imageHeight_px × 0.06 (6% from top)
  
• Bottom text baseline = imageHeight_px × 0.94 (6% from bottom)
  

These margins prevent text getting clipped on small screens or in thumbnails.

6. Contrast auto-choice (color accessibility)

Compute relative luminance:

L = 0.299*R + 0.587*G + 0.114*B

If L < 128 → use white text with black stroke; else use black text with white stroke. (Simple and effective.)

How the generator works

User steps

1. Choose or upload an image (JPG/PNG).
   
2. Type the Top Text and Bottom Text.
   
3. Choose Text Color and adjust Font Size (or keep auto-fit).
   
4. Click Generate Image.
   
5. Download or share the final meme image.

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