Signs & Text
Make My Sign (MakerLab)
Bambu Lab's browser editor for flat name plates, badges, signs and tags
16 generators · 15 free
Signs, Text & Name Plates
Desk name plates, door signs, house numbers, braille labels, stencils and raised lettering: all of it starts with text. These generators turn what you type into a printable model, often with a colour change built in so the letters stand out.
If your printer has a multi-material unit, look for tools that export a 3MF with separate parts. Otherwise, a pause at a set layer height gives the same two-colour effect.
Signs & Text
Sweeping 2-Line Name Plate
Hugely popular curved desk name plate you customize in MakerWorld's browser editor
Signs & Text
Ambigram Generator
Dual-text illusion block that shows one name from one side and another from the other
Signs & Text
Customizable Name Sign Generator
Layered name sign: a script name set into a big first letter
Signs & Text
Customizable Spray Stencil Text Box
Parametric spray-paint text stencils with automatic bridges, up to three lines
Signs & Text
House / Office Number Plate Generator
Two-colour house number and address plate generator with six styles
Signs & Text
printpal 3D Text Generator
Free raised or engraved text generator with custom fonts and keychain holes
Signs & Text
Vextrude 3D Text Generator
Browser 3D text maker with 21 writing systems and curved text, exports STL and 3MF
Signs & Text
BrailleGen
Open-source web app that turns text into printable Grade 1 or Grade 2 braille tiles
Signs & Text
QuickSTL 3D Stencil Maker
Turns a logo or lettering image into a spray stencil with automatic bridges
Cookie Cutters
Stamp Maker (Koolm)
Hugely popular MakerWorld customizer for stamps with text, icons or SVG
Storage
CNC Kitchen Gridfinity Label Generator
Embossed Gridfinity bin labels with icons, including ready-made fastener labels
Lithophanes
Lightbox Maker (MakerLab)
Build layered, multicolour LED light boxes from your images and text
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Printing signs & text: what to buy
The generator does the design. These materials make the print look as good as the preview.
Matte PLA for signs and Gridfinity
Matte filament hides layer lines and cuts glare, so raised lettering on signs and nameplates stays readable from any angle and a drawer full of bins looks uniform.
- Bambu Lab PLA MatteWide colour range with AMS-ready RFID, ideal for multi-colour signs.
- Polymaker Panchroma Matte PLA (formerly PolyTerra)The former PolyTerra line under a new name: soft matte look and good value for printing Gridfinity in bulk.
- SUNLU Matte PLALow-cost matte option for large batches of bins and baseplates.
Multicolour PLA for keychains and HueForge
Dual- and tri-colour silks give a single-nozzle printer colour shifts with no extra hardware, and a matched colour set is what lets HueForge and colour lithophanes blend thin layers into a full image.
- Bambu Lab PLA Silk Multi-ColorCo-extruded dual and tri colours that shift with the viewing angle; great for keychains and name tags.
- SUNLU Multi-Color Silk PLA (dual/tri/four-colour)Budget dual-, tri- and four-colour silk for colourful prints without an AMS.
- Bambu Lab PLA CMYK Lithophane BundleFour 1 kg spools (cyan, magenta, yellow, white) made for colour lithophanes and handy for HueForge-style layering.
Multicolour filament systems
An automatic filament changer prints multi-colour signs, keychains and HueForge pieces without you standing by to swap filament at every colour layer.
- Bambu Lab AMS liteFour-spool open unit for the A1 series; the cheapest way into Bambu multicolour.
- Bambu Lab AMS 2 ProEnclosed four-spool unit with built-in filament drying for Bambu's enclosed printers.
- Creality CFS (Creality Filament System)Creality's multicolour unit for K2-series printers; expands to 16 colours with RFID and moisture-proof storage.
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