What is a Chinese name seal (印章)?

A Chinese seal (印章, yìnzhāng) is a personal stamp carved with your name in a traditional script. Used for centuries to sign documents and artwork, it is today a treasured keepsake and meaningful gift for anyone with a Chinese name.

Which calligraphy style should I choose for my seal?

Print style (楷印) gives the most readable official look. Brush and Running Hand feel more artistic and personal. Wild Grass is the most expressive but least legible to non-specialists. When in doubt, use Print or Elegant.

What do I get with the $2.99 Seal Studio upgrade?

The upgrade unlocks high-resolution PNG and SVG downloads, all 8 calligraphy font styles, a transparent-background version for printing, and a printable keepsake card.

Why does the seal read top-to-bottom and right-to-left?

Traditional Chinese text was always written in vertical columns reading right to left. Classical seals follow this convention — our studio enforces the correct reading order automatically.

Seal Studio

Your name as a red seal

For two thousand years, Chinese artists signed with carved seals. Choose your calligraphy hand, pick a frame — avatar-ready, tattoo-reference ready.

Characters to carve (1–4 hanzi)

Calligraphy font — Print 楷印

Seal style

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Your seal appears here

Carved with this studio

Seal gallery — real output, different hands

Every tile below is the same engine, a different calligraphy font and frame. VIP unlocks all hands for your own seal.

李 LI Bruce Lee

林 LIN Lin

秦 QIN Qin

谢 XIE Thanks

苏 SU Revive

龙 LONG Dragon

白 BAI White

陶 TAO Pottery

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Gallery · carved in every hand

Real seals from the 8 calligraphy hands

Each tile below is a different font-style × finish combination from our library of 16 styles — the same hands that power the VIP font picker above. Every surname has all 16 variants in the Hundred Families gallery →

Seal of surname 李 in brush-gold calligraphy

李 LI brush · gold

Seal of surname 王 in brush-seal calligraphy

王 WANG brush · seal

Seal of surname 张 in brush-ink calligraphy

张 ZHANG brush · ink

Seal of surname 陈 in brush-jade calligraphy

陈 CHEN brush · jade

Seal of surname 林 in running-gold calligraphy

林 LIN running · gold

Seal of surname 赵 in running-seal calligraphy

赵 ZHAO running · seal

Seal of surname 马 in running-ink calligraphy

马 MA running · ink

Seal of surname 徐 in running-jade calligraphy

徐 XU running · jade

Seal of surname 孙 in cang-gold calligraphy

孙 SUN cang · gold

Seal of surname 周 in cang-seal calligraphy

周 ZHOU cang · seal

Seal of surname 唐 in cang-ink calligraphy

唐 TANG cang · ink

Seal of surname 何 in cang-jade calligraphy

何 HE cang · jade

✦ Want your own name in all 16 hands? VIP unlocks every calligraphy font in the Studio above — plus 12 classical naming methods and 5 daily poem-name generations.
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