Birthday GIF name spelling

The question is simple: does the name on the finished GIF read exactly as the visitor typed it? In our first pilot we asked the image model to draw the name itself on twenty pictures. A vision review found the name correct on all twenty, but an ordinary text-recognition tool read only seven of them, because artistic lettering is hard for machines to scan. That told us two things: image models are good at lettering most of the time, and an automatic spell-check on the result is unreliable. So we stopped depending on either. See the happy birthday gif with name tool.

The model now draws only the scene and is told to leave the lower part calm and to write nothing. The name and the words Happy Birthday are then added in your own browser, as ordinary text in a bold font with a dark outline. Because the text is typed onto the picture rather than drawn by the model, the letters are the same ones you entered, including accents and hyphens such as José, Zoë, Anne-Marie or Łukasz. See how diacritics work if you are curious why those marks need care.

After the name is placed, the page reads the picture back and checks two things: that there are enough bright letter pixels in the name line, and that none of them touch the left or right edge. A long name is shrunk in small steps until it fits. If the check fails, the tool does not hand over a clipped name; it offers Finish GIF to rebuild the animation without spending another credit. We also looked at all ten of the published examples by eye for stray lettering or watermarks and found none.

Names may be up to twenty-four characters long, and everything you type is kept as it is, including spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, digits and emoji. Names in other alphabets are accepted and shown with whatever font your device has for them, but we have not tested them yet, so check the preview before you send it. The figures on this page come from a small pilot on one day, not from long-term monitoring, and we will update them as more GIFs are made.

They are accepted, and your device draws them with its own font. We have not tested them yet, so look at the preview first.

The letters on the picture are exactly the ones you typed, so a typo in the box will appear on the GIF. Read the box once before you press the button.

It usually works, but a plain text check could not confirm it reliably. Typing the name onto the picture makes the result certain.