Type your title, pick a font and a size, and print. That is the whole job, and it takes about a minute. Display Lettering will lay a short title across one sheet, or give you a letter or two per sheet if you want a heading running the width of the wall. The pages come out in the right order, which sounds like nothing until you have knelt on the floor sorting twenty sheets back into a word.
A3 or A4, whichever your printer takes. On the largest setting you get roughly a letter or two per sheet, which is the size a working wall heading actually needs. Come down the sizes and more of the title fits per page, until a short heading sits on a single sheet.
You can cut it out either way. Trim around the whole strip and you have a banner, or cut the letters out individually and space them along the wall yourself. The second takes longer and looks better.
There are 54 display fonts. Six sit on the panel as quick picks and the rest are behind a drop-down, which stops the whole thing turning into a wall of controls. On top of the font you can set the colour, drop in a pattern or a rainbow fill, thicken the border, and put a shadow behind the letters so they lift off the backing paper.
Worth knowing: the rainbow fill runs per sheet rather than across the whole title, so every letter of a banner gets its own full rainbow rather than one letter coming out entirely red.
I used this setting up my own room at the start of this school year, for my Grade 5 class, Year 6 if you are reading this in the UK. Empty boards in August and a list of headings to get up before the children walked in.
The only thing I got wrong was rushing the font. I picked the first one that looked fine, printed a heading, held it up against the backing paper and it just sat there doing nothing. So I went back in, changed the font, thickened the border, put a pattern through it, and the second version looked like something a school had paid for.
That is the habit now. Style it properly before anything goes near the printer, because the styling costs you thirty seconds and the paper costs you a trip to the staffroom. Print one heading, hold it against the actual backing paper, then run the rest.
This is the one to give a teaching assistant or a student teacher when a board needs refreshing and you have not got an afternoon for it. They pick the words, pick the look and print it themselves, and the display comes back done rather than coming back as a question.
And there is no subscription in the way. Most places you would send them for display lettering want a paid membership before anything prints, which means a conversation with whoever holds the budget. Here they sign up free, get 20 tokens, and one of those covers every heading they print that day. Nobody has to ask anybody for a login.
Typing your words and styling them costs nothing at all, so you can sit and try fonts for as long as you like. Opening the lettering maker to print spends one token, and that token then covers the whole day however many titles you run. Every account gets 20 free tokens on signing up, which is far more than a classroom setup needs.
How do you make lettering for a classroom display?
Type your title, choose a font and a size, then print. It lays a whole title on one sheet, or a letter or two per sheet for a banner, and the pages come out in the right order.
What size do the letters print at?
A3 or A4. On the largest setting you get roughly a letter or two per sheet, which is what most working wall headings need.
Can I choose fonts and colours?
Yes. 54 display fonts, six as quick picks and the rest behind a drop-down, plus colour, patterns, a rainbow fill, border thickness and a drop shadow.
Is the display lettering generator free?
Free to try. Typing and styling costs nothing. Printing spends one token for the whole day, however many titles you run after that. Every account gets 20 free tokens on signing up.
Can a teaching assistant use it to refresh a display?
Yes, and it is one of the better uses for it. There is no subscription to buy and no shared login to hand out. They sign up free, get 20 tokens, and one token covers every title they print that day.
The rest of the display shelf: Label Maker for tray and drawer labels, Working Wall for the board itself, Sticky Note Printer for the bits that change every week, and Cursive for handwriting sheets.
Written by a practising primary school teacher · checked August 2026