How to make a seal stamp image

A name is all you need, but the shape and typeface you pick change the result completely.

Making a seal image takes one thing: a name. What you pick around it depends on where the seal is going.

1. Choose the shape

For personal use, a round personal seal is the safe default — the kind you press on bank forms or parcel receipts to say «checked». If the seal carries a company's name, choose the corporate round seal: the company name running around the rim with 印 in the centre. Invoices and quotations often carry a square corporate seal alongside it.

2. Choose the typeface

Formal paperwork suits serif faces. If you want the look of a carved physical seal, pick Seal Script under Letter shape — it narrows the characters and stretches them vertically to imitate the dense, tall proportions of real seal script.

3. Size and resolution

150 dpi is enough for screen-only documents, but choose 300 dpi or more for anything that gets printed. Sizes follow the 7–30 mm range Korean law sets for registered seals; personal seals are usually around 15 mm.

4. Download and place it

Download transparent PNG saves a file with an empty background, so nothing white appears when you lay it over a document. In Word or Hangul, insert the picture and set its wrapping to in front of text so you can move it freely onto the signature line.

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