Stamp maker for Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic and Arabic text
A stamp maker that sets non-Latin text, including traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic, with ring text that keeps each script readable.
Most stamp makers are built for the Latin alphabet and quietly fall apart on anything else, usually on the curved ring text where letters get taken apart and placed one at a time. Different writing systems behave differently when you bend them around a circle, so this page is about what each one does here, and where the limits are.
What you get
- Chinese, both traditional and simplified. Han characters are independent squares with no joining behaviour, so they set cleanly around a ring at even spacing. Red is the conventional ink.
- Japanese. A hanko or inkan name seal is usually a small circle with one to four characters, and kanji, hiragana and katakana all behave the same way on the ring.
- Korean. A dojang sets the same way, whether in hangul or hanja.
- Cyrillic and Greek. Alphabetic and non-joining, so they behave exactly like Latin: per-letter placement, even tracking, no surprises. A Cyrillic enterprise seal sets the same way a Latin one does.
- Arabic and Hebrew are handled differently on purpose. They join their letters and read right to left, so they are set as a whole run rather than glyph by glyph, which keeps the joins intact and the order correct.
- The characters come from the fonts on the device that renders the file, so a machine with no Chinese font installed will show empty boxes. Preview before you pay: what you see is what the file will contain.
How to make it
- Open the stamp maker and pick a shape, or start from a template.
- Type your wording, then set the colour, border and size.
- Add the date, time, serial number or logo, and position each one.
- Preview it live, then download. Designing and previewing are free.
Questions
Can I make a traditional Chinese seal?
Yes. Type the characters and they set around the ring or stack in the middle. Traditional and simplified both work, since the tool places whatever characters you type rather than converting between them. For a seal that has to be legally registered in mainland China, see the China company chop page: registration is a separate matter from design.
Will Arabic letters join up properly?
Yes. Arabic is set as a continuous run rather than placed letter by letter, so the contextual forms and the right-to-left order are preserved. The trade-off is that the invert and arc-start controls do not apply to a run set this way, because those work by positioning individual glyphs.
Why do I see boxes instead of characters?
Because the device rendering the stamp has no font covering that script. The stamp stores the text, not the letterforms, so it draws with whatever fonts are available locally. Installing a font for the script, or designing on a device that already has one, fixes it.
Can I mix scripts on one stamp?
Yes, and bilingual seals are common: the registered local-language name around the ring with an English rendering underneath, or the reverse. Each line is independent, so they can use different sizes and fonts.
Does a Japanese hanko made here count as a registered seal?
No. A jitsuin is registered with a local authority and that registration is what gives it standing. This designs the mark. For anything requiring a registered seal, the registration is a separate process with the relevant office.
Estamplab is a design tool. This page describes common commercial practice rather than giving legal, tax or financial advice, and practice changes. Where a specific document matters, check the requirement with the body receiving it.