Scrolling Text Generator
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Example scrolling text GIF
How to make scrolling text
- Type your message into the Text box.
- Pick the direction and the speed.
- Choose a font, and turn LED dots on or off.
- Set the colors, the width and the text size, then press Download GIF.
What the scrolling text generator makes
Your text slides across a strip like a marquee or an LED sign. Once it has gone by it comes round again, and the GIF loops with no jump. A short message crosses alone, and the next copy comes in as it leaves.
Scrolling text settings
Direction: Right to left is how news tickers and shop signs run. Left to right moves the other way.
Speed goes from about 30 pixels a second at 1 to about 300 at 10.
Font: LED is a dot-matrix font like the ones on real signs. Bold, Poster, Serif and Typewriter are ordinary fonts.
LED dots draws the sign as a grid of round lights, with the unlit ones showing faintly, and the text steps from light to light. Turn it off for plain letters. The LED font then shows as square pixels.
Width is 240 to 640 px. Text size sets the height of the sign along with the letters.
Where scrolling text gets used
Website and forum banners, stream overlays, Discord announcements, signs shown on screens and retro personal pages.
Limits of the scrolling text GIF
The text is one line of up to 100 characters. The LED font has letters, numbers and common punctuation. Accents are dropped and emoji are left out.
A longer message makes a longer GIF and a bigger file. Past 300 frames, the text moves further on each frame instead, so the speed stays the same.