What happens when you convert TTF 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 TTF 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 TTF 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 TTF to PNG 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 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.
- Save each PNG with its download button. Our server has already deleted both your TTF and the PNG by then.
Why convert TTF to PNG?
TTF files usually come from installing fonts on a computer and embedding them in documents. 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 TTF to PNG 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 PNG 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 PNG 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 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 TTF 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 TTF 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 TTF and type them in any word processor, or load it on a web page with @font-face.
TTF vs PNG: the differences
| TTF | PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | TrueType font | Portable Network Graphics |
| Type | font | image |
| Created by | Apple | the PNG Development Group |
| First released | 1991 | 1996 |
| Compression | Lossless | Lossless |
| Transparency | n/a | Yes |
| Animation | n/a | No |
| Vector or raster | n/a | Raster |
| Colour | n/a | up to 16 bits per channel with a full alpha channel |
| What it holds | glyph outlines drawn with quadratic curves | up to 16 bits per channel with a full alpha channel |
| 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 | screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with transparency |
| MIME type | font/ttf | image/png |
About TTF and PNG 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 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.
TTF 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 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 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.ttf -pointsize 48 label:"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" output.pngConverting 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 PNG converter FAQ
Will I lose quality converting TTF to PNG?
The letters are drawn exactly as the font defines them, at screen resolution. Every pixel is kept exactly. The image cannot be used as a font: it is a picture of one.
Why is the PNG 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 PNG conversion needs fontforge and Chromium, two 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 PNG 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 PNG 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 PNG file?
PNG opens in every browser and image viewer. PNG is common for screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with transparency.
Is this TTF to PNG 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 PNG 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 PNG is saved to your Downloads folder.