Generate placeholder images of any size with custom colors, text, and formats.
Enter the width and height for your placeholder image.
Choose background color, text color, and overlay text.
Save the placeholder image or copy the URL to use.
This tool draws a placeholder image to your exact specification: a width and height in pixels, a background color, a text color, a short label, and a file format. It returns a ready-to-download image file. The two color fields do most of the work, which is why the tool lives in the site's color-and-design category: choose a background fill and a label color that stay legible and echo the palette of the real site you are mocking up. The surprise is that size is literal: the image is exactly the pixels you entered, and the label never resizes or wraps the canvas to fit.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
Width 800, height 600, background color #CCCCCC, text color #333333, label "Header Image", format PNG
Expected output
An 800 x 600 PNG image: a #CCCCCC light-gray background with #333333 dark-gray text reading "Header Image" centered on it.
Each input maps to one property of the file: the dimensions set the canvas, the two hex codes set the background fill and the text color, the label is drawn on top, and the format decides the encoding. Nothing is scaled, so the file is exactly 800 pixels wide and 600 pixels tall.
The width and height fields fix the canvas: the tool creates an image exactly that many pixels across and down, with no scaling or cropping. The format choice then decides the encoding. PNG and JPEG write a fixed grid of pixels; JPEG compresses harder and loses detail, which shows at text edges, so PNG is the usual pick for placeholders with labels.
Two color fields take hex triplets: a hash followed by six hex digits, such as #0A84FF, one for the background fill and one for the text. The label field holds a short string that is drawn centered on top of the background. The image is generated from these values in your browser, so the same inputs always give the same image, which keeps placeholders stable across repeated layouts.
No, not by default. The tool paints the background color you specify across the whole canvas, so the result is opaque. PNG and SVG are formats that can carry transparency, but a generator that always fills the background produces no see-through areas. If transparency is a real requirement, generate one test image first, and plan to use a transparent PNG from an editor if the test is opaque.
Yes. The label is a plain string, so letters, numbers, and symbols are drawn exactly as entered, and the image is generated entirely in your browser, which means nothing you type is uploaded. The real constraint is length: the label never wraps, so keep it to a word or two unless you want it crowding the edges of the image.
The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.
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