Alignment chart maker
An alignment chart maker for the labelled grid everybody knows: nine cells running lawful good to chaotic evil, or any grid you like from two by two up to a hundred a side. Name the rows and columns, drop a picture or a line of text into every cell, then export the whole thing as one image.
Also known as: alignment chart generator, alignment chart creator, alignment meme maker, alignment chart meme, character alignment chart, lawful good chart, make your own alignment chart.
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Alignment chart sizes
The same editor makes every size. Four cells force a sharp argument. Nine cells is the classic personality grid. Twenty-five cells give the middle ground room. Anything else is a custom grid you size yourself, with rows and columns set separately, anywhere from two a side up to a hundred.
Four cells
Use four boxes when the argument is two binary questions. There is no middle to hide in, so every entry takes a side on both axes. Friends, products and takes that people already argue about in two dimensions fit here. A roster of twenty characters does not.
The classic nine-cell grid
Nine cells is the shape the meme is usually drawn in: three steps on each axis, with a middle for the people who are not quite one thing or the other. It is small enough to read at phone size and large enough for a group chat, a cast or a pantry. The named classic-grid page explains the original nine names. This page is the tool that makes any nine-cell chart, labels included.
Twenty-five cells
Five steps on each axis is for the chart that outgrew nine cells: a whole roster, a season, a catalogue, or two scales that are genuinely gradual. It takes longer to fill and it is meant to be studied rather than glanced at. Start at five by five when you already know nine boxes will pile up in the middle.
Custom sizes
Rows and columns do not have to match. A two-by-six spectrum, a four-by-eight roster or a ten-by-ten dump is still an alignment chart: two named axes, one cell per meeting point. The custom start opens the editor so you can type both numbers, anything from two up to a hundred on each side, then resize later without losing what you have already placed.
Templates on this page are reusable labelled grids. Completed charts are finished, published takes. Open placement is a stored vote on where one item belongs on the grid. Those three lists never mix types or states.
When a published chart is open for placement, visitors vote on which labelled cell one item belongs in. That is a stored vote on this site, not a realtime collaborative fill: there is no live cursor and nobody else is painting the grid while you watch.
How to make an alignment chart
- Set the size of the grid. The start cards on this page open a two by two, the classic nine-cell grid, five by five, or a blank custom size. The main button still opens three rows by three columns. The grid size control then takes it anywhere from two by two up to a hundred by a hundred, and you can resize later without losing what is already in the cells.
- Name the rows and the columns. Type over the placeholder labels. For the classic version the rows read lawful, neutral and chaotic and the columns read good, neutral and evil, but the axes are yours: cheap to expensive, useful to useless, early to late.
- Fill the cells. Each cell takes an image, a line of text, or both, plus an optional description underneath. Cells can be highlighted to mark a favourite, or hidden so the chart stays a guessing game until somebody reveals them. Nothing has to be filled in order, and empty cells are fine to leave until last.
- Download it, or give it a link. Export the finished grid as a PNG, or publish it here to get a page and a link. A published chart page carries the row, column and cell labels as real text, so it can be read and searched rather than only looked at, and anyone who opens it can start their own version from it.
What you can do
- Any grid from two by two up to a hundred by a hundred, resized whenever you like, with grids past about twelve hundred cells drawing only the part you are looking at so the page stays smooth.
- Row labels, column labels and axis labels, each one text that shrinks to fit its box or an uploaded picture sitting on the axis instead.
- Every cell takes an image, text, a description written over or under it, or a freehand drawing made in the cell.
- Hidden cells that stay covered until they are revealed, which turns a finished chart into something people can guess at.
- More than a hundred animated cell highlights for calling out a winner, plus per cell colours, borders and styles.
- Animated background themes and themed gridline sets, or your own picture as the background with cover, contain and tile fits, a focal point and a scrim so the cell text stays readable.
- 36 bundled fonts, so the chart can look like a rulebook, a poster or a group chat.
- Images, text boxes and drawings you can drop on top of the grid and place freely, for a title, a scribble or a joke in the margin.
- Pan and zoom, undo and redo, and a draft that survives a browser reload, because a hundred cell grid is not a five minute job. Paste an export code from the Reddit alignment chart app to carry an old chart straight in.
- Export a PNG, a JPEG or a print-ready PDF, or publish the chart as its own page with a link other people can open and remix.
Make your own alignment chart
People and personality types
The version most people meet first: friends, coworkers, family, the group chat, each one placed in the cell that fits them best. Text cells are enough, though photographs make it land harder.
Food and drink
Sauces, cereals, cheeses, chain restaurants, ways to make tea. Food charts travel because the axes can be silly ("cheap to expensive" against "would serve to guests") and everyone has a counter-argument.
Pop culture and fandoms
Every character in a show, every player in a squad, every album in a discography. One image per cell, nine cells, and the whole take fits in a single picture that reads at phone size.
School and work
Subjects, teachers, meeting types, software, coffee machines. A grid is a gentler way to say what everybody already thinks than a ranked list is, because the axes carry the judgement instead of a number.
How people play games
Not the characters, the players: the one who never revives anyone, the one who reads every item description, the one who quits at the first loss. Behaviour grids are the most remixed kind on the site.
Everyday habits
How people load a dishwasher, queue, answer texts, or pack a suitcase. Small domestic axes make surprisingly good charts, because the reader recognises themselves in one of the cells and immediately wants to argue about which one.
Common questions
What is an alignment chart?
A grid whose rows and columns each stand for a scale, so every cell is the meeting point of two ideas. The best known version comes from tabletop roleplaying: lawful, neutral and chaotic down one side, good, neutral and evil across the other, giving nine positions from lawful good to chaotic evil. The joke format keeps the shape and swaps the labels for anything at all.
Do I need an account?
Not to make one. The editor opens immediately, images upload without signing in, and the export button works either way. Publishing is the one action that needs an account, because a published chart is a public page with a name on it. Work anonymously and sign in when you publish: the chart you were editing comes with you, and from then on your published charts follow you between devices.
How big can the grid be?
From two by two up to a hundred rows by a hundred columns. Past about twelve hundred cells the editor renders only the part you are looking at, so a very large chart still scrolls smoothly on a phone, and a very large chart can be shared through a framed region rather than as an unreadable wall of thumbnails.
Can I put my own pictures in the cells?
Yes. Any cell can hold an uploaded image, with an optional label and description, and you can mix image cells and text cells in the same chart. A cell can also hold a freehand drawing instead, and the row and column labels themselves can be pictures rather than words, which is how a chart of characters or logos ends up with no text on the axes at all.
Can I hide cells and reveal them later?
Yes. A cell can be set to stay covered, which is how people run a chart as a guessing game: publish it, let readers argue about what is underneath, then reveal it.
Can I bring a chart over from the Reddit app?
Yes. Export the chart to a code in the Reddit alignment chart app, paste it into the import page here, and it opens as an editable draft with the cells, labels and styling intact.
How do I share the finished chart?
Two ways. Export a PNG and post the picture anywhere, or publish the chart here and share the link, which gives it a page with the labels as real text and a copy button for anyone who wants their own version.
What is the difference between an alignment chart and a tier list?
A tier list sorts things into ranked rows, best at the top, worst at the bottom, so it answers one question. An alignment chart crosses two scales, so a cell says two things at once: not just how good something is, but what kind of thing it is. If your argument has one axis, a tier list is faster. If it has two, this is the format.