Free Nameplate, Keychain & Label Generator
Free raised-text nameplate, keychain tag and label generator. Any font, live 3D preview, STL or two-colour 3MF. Order it printed in NZ, or buy the file.
What It Does
Type a name, get a printable plate. The text is converted from your font's outlines into real raised 3D geometry, sat on a rounded plate, a pill or a keyring tag, and shown live in the 3D viewport as you type. The output is either a single STL to print with a colour change, or a two-colour 3MF with the plate and the lettering already assigned to separate filament slots for a multi-material printer. It runs entirely in your browser and nothing is uploaded. Designing here is free and there is no sign-up. Keeping the file is not: order the part printed by us and the download comes with it, or buy a licence for the file on its own.
Text, Fonts and Legibility
Any font installed on your system can be used, on one or two lines, with an optional bold weight. The thing to watch is stroke width rather than character height: a raised letter has to be at least as wide as your nozzle to exist at all, and realistically at least two extrusions wide to look solid, so about 0.8 mm at the thinnest part of the stroke. That rules out hairline and fine script faces at small sizes. A medium or bold sans-serif at 8 mm cap height or more prints cleanly every time, and the bold option is the quickest fix when a font's thin strokes are breaking up in the preview.
Plate Shapes and Auto-sizing
The plate auto-sizes to whatever you have typed, with a padding control so you decide how much air sits around the text. A rounded plate suits desk and door nameplates, a pill reads better for short single words, and the keyring tag adds an eyelet with a 5 mm hole that takes a standard split ring or a luggage loop. Two lines let you put a name over a role or a phone number, and it is usually better to shorten the second line than to shrink both to fit.
Two-Colour 3MF Versus a Single STL
The 3MF writes the plate and the lettering as separate objects with filament slots already assigned, so an AMS or MMU printer picks up the colour split with no work from you. It opens in Bambu Studio, Orca Slicer and PrusaSlicer. If you have a single-extruder printer, the STL is the better choice: because the text sits proud of a flat plate, a simple filament change at the layer where the letters start gives you the same two-tone result for one minute of standing next to the machine.
Print Settings
Print the plate face up, flat on the build plate. Raised text wants at least three layers of height to read properly, which is 0.6 mm at a 0.2 mm layer height, and going much beyond 1 mm rarely improves legibility. Turn ironing on for the plate's top surface if your slicer supports it, because the contrast between a smooth background and crisp lettering is what makes these parts look bought rather than printed. A live readout shows the volume, estimated mass in each material and the facet count of the generated mesh, which is worth a glance since text geometry can carry a surprising number of facets.
Materials and Outdoor Use
PLA is the best-looking choice indoors: it prints the sharpest detail, comes in the widest colour range and costs the least. It is the wrong choice for a plate on a gate, a boat or the dashboard of a car, where it will fade, soften and eventually bow. PETG holds up outdoors and in heat far better and still takes fine detail. ASA is the most UV-stable option for exterior signage. For keyring tags, remember the tag lives in a pocket with metal keys, so PETG or nylon will look presentable much longer than PLA will.
Order It Printed or Buy the File
Send it to our instant quote page and we will print it, including the two-colour version, and ship it anywhere in New Zealand, with the file included in the order. Batches of tags for a team, a club or an event are exactly the sort of job worth handing over. Or buy a licence for the file on its own and print the batch yourself. See the available materials for colour and weathering behaviour, or the FDM design guide for the minimum feature sizes behind the legibility advice above.