How to turn Markdown into a PNG image you can post anywhere

Markdown is great for writing, but most places you want to share it — a social feed, a chat, a slide, a document that will not render it — want a picture, not source text. Turning the text into a PNG keeps your headings, lists, tables and code blocks looking exactly as you intended, on every device.

What you need

A Markdown document and a browser. The Markdown to image tool draws the picture on your own device, so nothing is sent to a server and there is no watermark.

Step by step

1. Paste or type your Markdown. You can also upload a .md file or load one from a URL.
2. Choose a size. Pick a preset such as Instagram square (1080 x 1080) or LinkedIn post (1200 x 627), or type your own width and height.
3. Choose how it fits. “Whole document” shows everything with margins around it; “Fill width” scales to the full width and crops whatever runs past the bottom.
4. Pick light or dark, and add a header or footer from Additional settings if you want a title or date on the image.
5. Check the preview and download. The preview shows the exact output size, so what you see is the file you get.

Tips for readable images

• Keep it short. A picture is read at a glance. Five to eight lines of large text beat a full page that has to be zoomed.
• Use headings and lists. They give the image structure that survives being small.
• Mind the width. Wide tables get tiny on a phone. Keep them to three or four columns, or turn them into a list.
• Leave the height empty if you want a tall image that follows the length of your text instead of a fixed canvas.

When a picture is the wrong format

If the reader needs to copy the text, a picture is a poor container — use rich text to paste into Word or Gmail, or plain text for a form field. Pictures are for sharing how something looks; text is for moving it around.

See the size cheat sheet for the dimensions each platform commonly recommends.