Quote Card Text Fitter
A quote, broken into the lines it will actually occupy on the card.
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Tool input
Overview
About this tool
Wraps a quote the way a design tool will, at your card size, font size and case treatment — then says whether the block still fits once the attribution is counted, and flags the short last line that is the most common thing wrong with a quote card. Both fixes are offered: a size at which it fits, and a size at which it breaks evenly.
Instructions
How to use it
Paste the quote without its quotation marks — those are added to the measurement separately, because they cost width too. Set the card, the size and the case.
Why it wraps rather than counts
A character count divided by a measure gives a line count that is often wrong by one, because words do not divide evenly. This wraps greedily at word boundaries — the same algorithm your design tool uses — so the line count is the real one.
The widow is the point
A last line shorter than about a third of the measure is the single most common defect in a quote card, and it is invisible until the card is drawn. The fix is as often a slightly larger size — which pulls a word down onto the last line — as a smaller one, so both directions are searched.
Questions
Frequently asked
What font size should a quote card use?
On a 1080px canvas, 56–72px is the normal range for a short quote. The number that matters is whether the block fits with the attribution and breaks without a widow, which is what this checks.
What is a widow on a quote card?
A last line much shorter than the others — often one word. It is the most common thing wrong with a quote card and the least noticed, because it only appears once the type is set.
How many characters fit on a line?
Text area width divided by about half the font size, for a sans-serif at mixed case. On a 1080 square at 64px that is roughly 25 characters. Capitals fit about a quarter fewer.
How accurate is this?
It is an approximation of a pixel measurement from an average glyph advance, and it says so. A condensed face fits noticeably more and a wide face fewer — use it to choose a size, then check the card.
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