The first is to fire up an image editor, roll your sleeves up, and do the whole thing start to finish. Your coworker might think your meme picture is hilarious but they might find it much less hilarious if the meme generator website you use kept their photo and now other people are using their face as part of an Internet meme.
This way there is zero risk you, your coworker, or anyone else in the photo ends up as the next Bad Luck Brian. The first step is to grab your source image and open it up in your editor of choice. Select the text tool from the toolbar the T icon or press the T key to select it via keyboard shortcut. Note that the text is all caps. The final piece of the meme-making puzzle is to add the stroke element to the text. The stroke tool is found in the Blending Options menu in Photoshop or the equivalent in photo editor.
You want pixels for the width of the stroke for most photos adjust as needed to create a bold but not overpowering text outline.
The color should be, of course, black. The font is bold and eye catching, the text is centered and outlined in black and, most critically, our meme picture features a cat.
Our work here is done. Remember our concern in the last section that using online tools can lead to your image ending up everywhere? When you create a meme picture with MemeGenerator. See the highlighted options below. With those two options set sharing unchecked and private checked upload your image. By default the generator uses Impact font, in white, with a black outline that has a 5 pixel weight but you can adjust those things on the fly.
In the image above the white box, black box, and number seen in the gray to the right of the text adjust the font color, stroke color, and weight, respectively. You can also change the font type, maximum size, and whether or not there is a drop shadow in the advanced menu as well as turn off the all caps styling. That said, if you have no experience with Photoshop or other image editors the web-based meme generators will certainly get the job done.
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Browse All Android Articles Browse All Smart Home Articles Customize the Taskbar in Windows Browse All Microsoft Office Articles What Is svchost. Browse All Privacy and Security Articles Browse All Linux Articles Browse All Buying Guides. Ben Huh now owns Cheezburger. It wasn't just the sheer popularity of that single meme, he says, though that didn't hurt. It was also by showing what didn't work. Nakagawa mentions that he followed ICanHasCheezburger.
IHasAHotdog initially used a wider font -- and wasn't as successful. Of course, it also could have been the dogs. It all has to work. When we see a funny joke, there are millions of others that have died.
Why Impact works is a debatable question, but the Font Bureau's Berlow points out that typefaces aren't neutral. They have personalities, he says. Sometimes they're obvious: The rounded, bulbous font used by Dunkin' Donuts suggests cheerfulness and doughnuts , for example. Comic Sans , as Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert learned to his dismay, signifies cutesiness at best. On the other hand, Helvetica is a subtle font, often used by brands "to make them feel like they are the standard-bearer of simple," says Berlow.
Impact, on its face, suggests boldness, loudness and yelling, especially in all-caps -- "it's like overkill," says Henry Hongmin Kim, a graphic design professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Combine that with photos of cats or Willy Wonka, and the contrast provokes at least a smile. Indeed, Impact is even more effective with a 1-pixel outline or drop shadow, says Nakagawa. The more effort required to read it, the better. Try fonts like Dancing Script or Satisfy to get the fancy effect. When in doubt, use Arial. Other plain, unassuming fonts have their hang-ups, as well. Too corporate. Too hip. Almost a plaintext meme of its own.
Arial is the way to go, if you want your picture and caption to be the center of attention in your meme. Modern meme makers are naming Montserrat as a favorite font. Montserrat is thinner and more square than Arial, giving your memes a more modern vibe. It has become popular because it's very similar to the Twitter font so that it blends in with Tweet reposts and screenshot memes. Now that you know the most important meme fonts and when to use them, you need to know how to use them.
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