An OC template that already knows your character

Most OC templates are a blank PNG.

Someone drew a nice frame with empty boxes, you saved it, and now it sits in your folder waiting for you to open ibisPaint or Photoshop, stack a text layer over every box, hunt for a font that stays readable at that size — and do the whole thing again for the next character.

Your bio, already laid out

LitMemo's character cards take the bio you already wrote and arrange it into an image.

Name, age, hair, distinguishing marks, personality, the thing that happened when they were sixteen — you wrote all that when you made the character. The card pulls from the same place, so nothing gets retyped to make a picture of it. You pick which fields show, where they sit, how big, what colour. Then you download.

You get a PNG. It goes on a Toyhouse profile, a Tumblr post, a Twitter thread, a Discord character channel.

And when you dye their hair next month, you regenerate the card instead of reopening a layered file and matching the font you used in March.

Drag things where you want them

Every field is a thing you can grab. As one nears the card's midline, an edge, or another field, it snaps — so a layout ends up straight without you nudging anything by hand. Tilt something if you want it tilted. Back out of a mess with undo.

Seven built-in layouts work as-is. Like one? Duplicate it and rearrange it into yours. Two of the seven are landscape, which survives an in-feed crop better than a tall card and gives a character with a lot of fields two columns instead of one long strip.

Half-empty characters still look finished

This is where custom layouts usually fall apart. The layout assumed every field was filled, so a character with four of them turns into a form full of gaps.

These don't. An empty field is not printed, and the rest of its section closes up; an empty section takes its heading with it. A character you invented this morning, with a name and a personality and nothing else, comes out as a short clean card.

So one layout serves the character you've had for three years and the one from twenty minutes ago.

For the people who don't draw

If you write and don't draw, this is the part that matters.

A card with no artwork isn't a card with a hole in it. It's a typographic card — your character's own colour, their name set large, and the words you chose to put on it. Big pull-quote of their worst line. A list of tags. The three sentences that explain them.

Plenty of characters are better served by a good block of type than by a drawing their author can't make. That's a design, not a fallback.

Vertical text, if your setting wants it

Set a card to run vertically and it runs vertically — upright characters, lines reading right to left, the way a book spine does.

If your OC lives somewhere that calls for it, it's a dropdown, not a workaround.

What it costs

The card designer is on every plan, free included. All seven layouts.

Artwork: a free account can put images on 2 characters, paid plans have no limit.

Making your first one

You'll need an account — the free one does this.

1. Make a character and paste in whatever you already have. A few fields is plenty
2. Hit Card and pick a built-in layout to see how your character lands in it
3. Duplicate this template to make it yours, then move things around
4. Download image

Layouts save to the world your characters live in, so they all share one you got right — and you can still hand a single character something different.

[ Sign up free and make your first OC card ]