OTF to PNG Converter

What happens when you convert OTF to PNG

• A font file cannot become a PNG by itself, so this makes a specimen: a sample sheet that shows the font. fontforge, the open-source font editor, reads the font's name and the characters it contains, and Chromium, the open-source browser behind Chrome, draws the sheet with the OTF on our conversion server.
• The sheet shows the font's name, the alphabet in capitals and small letters, the digits and common punctuation, and the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." at 72, 48, 36, 24, 18 and 14 pixels, on a white page 1,280 pixels wide.
• Only characters the font really has are shown, so nothing is filled in from another font. A font without Latin letters, such as an icon, symbol or Chinese font, shows the first 240 characters it has instead.
• The font is shown as it is, in the one weight and style the OTF holds; bold or italic are not added artificially.
• PNG is lossless, so every edge of every letter is exactly as drawn.
• This conversion runs on our server: the file is uploaded, converted, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result has been sent back to you. Nothing is kept. Files up to 25 MB are accepted.

How to convert OTF to PNG online

1. Press "Choose OTF files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. Files up to 25 MB each can be converted.
2. There are no settings to choose: the converter keeps everything the target format can hold.
3. Press "Convert to PNG". The file is uploaded to our conversion server, converted in a few seconds, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result is sent back.
4. Save each PNG with its download button. Our server has already deleted both your OTF and the PNG by then.

Why convert OTF to PNG?

OTF files usually come from professional typography, ligatures and design work. People convert them to PNG to preview a font before installing it, to show a client or a team what a typeface looks like, or to post a sample on a website or in a chat, where a font file cannot be shown.

How to convert OTF to PNG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your OTF files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each PNG is saved to your Downloads folder.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the OTF files from Finder onto the drop zone and the PNG files land in Downloads.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose OTF files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted PNG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose OTF files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The PNG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for OTF to PNG

There are no settings: the sample text, sizes and layout are the same for every font, so specimens can be compared side by side.

To try your own words, install the OTF and type them in any word processor, or load it on a web page with @font-face.

OTF vs PNG: the differences

About OTF and PNG files

What is an OTF file?

OpenType extends TrueType with advanced typography such as ligatures and alternate glyphs. An .otf file usually holds PostScript-style cubic outlines rather than TrueType curves.

What is a PNG file?

PNG compresses without losing a single pixel, so screenshots and text stay razor sharp, but a photograph saved as PNG is often three to five times the size of the same photo as JPG.

OTF to PNG not working? Common problems

• "Files up to 25 MB can be converted." Server conversions have a size limit. A font that large usually holds several scripts; subset it to the characters you need first.
• "The font could not be drawn." The file may be damaged, or be a font collection (.ttc) or a web font renamed; convert WOFF and WOFF2 fonts to TTF first.
• "This file is not really in OTF format." The converter checks every file before it runs anything, so a file of another format renamed to .otf is refused. Choose the page for its real format.

Convert OTF to PNG from the command line

ImageMagick draws a simpler specimen of any font on your own computer:

magick -size 1280x -background white -fill black -font input.otf -pointsize 48 label:"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" output.png

Converting on your own computer keeps the file entirely local, which is worth it for very large or very sensitive documents. For everything else, the converter on this page does it without installing anything.