What happens when you convert TTF to JPG
- A font file cannot become a JPG 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 TTF on our conversion server, which ImageMagick saves as a JPG.
- 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 TTF holds; bold or italic are not added artificially.
- The JPG is saved at 92 percent quality.
- 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 TTF to JPG online
- Press "Choose TTF files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. Files up to 25 MB each can be converted.
- There are no settings to choose: the converter keeps everything the target format can hold.
- Press "Convert to JPG". 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.
- Save each JPG with its download button. Our server has already deleted both your TTF and the JPG by then.
Why convert TTF to JPG?
TTF files usually come from installing fonts on a computer and embedding them in documents. People convert them to JPG 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 TTF to JPG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android
On Windows
Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your TTF files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each JPG is saved to your Downloads folder.
On a Mac
Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the TTF files from Finder onto the drop zone and the JPG files land in Downloads.
On iPhone and iPad
Open the page in Safari and tap Choose TTF files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted JPG 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 TTF files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The JPG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.
Best settings for TTF to JPG
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 TTF and type them in any word processor, or load it on a web page with @font-face.
TTF vs JPG: the differences
| TTF | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | TrueType font | Joint Photographic Experts Group image |
| Type | font | image |
| Created by | Apple | the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| First released | 1991 | 1992 |
| Compression | Lossless | Lossy |
| Transparency | n/a | No |
| Animation | n/a | No |
| Vector or raster | n/a | Raster |
| Colour | n/a | 24-bit colour, 16.7 million colours |
| What it holds | glyph outlines drawn with quadratic curves | 24-bit colour, 16.7 million colours |
| In a browser | installs on Windows, Mac and Linux; browsers load it through CSS | opens in every browser and image viewer |
| Common uses | installing fonts on a computer and embedding them in documents | camera photos, web images and email attachments |
| MIME type | font/ttf | image/jpeg |
About TTF and JPG files
What is a TTF file?
TrueType was created by Apple and adopted by Microsoft, which is why every desktop system installs TTF fonts natively. The outlines are made of quadratic curves.
What is a JPG file?
JPG discards fine detail the eye is least sensitive to, which is why a photo shrinks to a tenth of its raw size but text and sharp edges pick up blocky artefacts. Every re-save at a lossy setting throws away a little more.
TTF to JPG 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 TTF format." The converter checks every file before it runs anything, so a file of another format renamed to .ttf is refused. Choose the page for its real format.
Convert TTF to JPG 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.ttf -pointsize 48 label:"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" output.jpgConverting 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.
TTF to JPG converter FAQ
Will I lose quality converting TTF to JPG?
The letters are drawn exactly as the font defines them, at screen resolution. JPG adds slight softness around the edges of letters; choose PNG for crisp edges. The image cannot be used as a font: it is a picture of one.
Why is the JPG a different size from the TTF?
A specimen is usually around 100 to 200 KB, often larger than the TTF itself.
Are my TTF files uploaded?
Yes, for this conversion. A faithful TTF to JPG conversion needs fontforge, Chromium and ImageMagick, three open-source tools, which cannot run in a browser. The file travels over an encrypted connection, is converted in a private temporary folder, and is deleted together with the JPG as soon as the result has been sent back to you. We do not keep, read or share it.
Can I convert several TTF files to JPG at once?
Yes. Select or drop as many files as you like; they are converted one after another and each gets its own download button.
How do I open a JPG file?
JPG opens in every browser and image viewer. JPG is common for camera photos, web images and email attachments.
Is this TTF to JPG converter free?
Yes. There is no sign-up and no watermark. Because this conversion uses our server, there is a fair-use limit of 25 MB per file and a number of files per hour, which stops the service being overloaded.
Can I convert TTF to JPG on my phone?
Yes. It works in Safari on iPhone and iPad and in Chrome on Android. The conversion happens on our server, so it is as fast on a phone as on a computer; the JPG is saved to your Downloads folder.