Two-Tone Tool

Create a Black and White Signature

Force a signature to pure black with no grey in between. The cleanest option for stamps, engraving, and single-ink printing.

Describe the edit — the AI assistant does it on the canvas.

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Drop a scanned signature

PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG — up to 30 MB

Runs entirely in your browser. Your image is never uploaded.

What a threshold does to a signature

01

One cut-off, two outcomes

Every pixel is compared against the threshold you set. Darker becomes black, lighter becomes nothing. There is no in-between value left in the file, which is what some manufacturing processes require.

02

Where to put the cut-off

The default of 170 sits high on purpose. Ink is thinner than it looks, and a threshold in the middle of the range eats the faint ends of strokes. Raise it to keep more of the signature; lower it if paper texture is coming through as speckles.

03

Why processes demand two tones

Rubber stamp cutting, laser engraving and single-ink screen printing have no way to express a grey. They either cut or they do not. Handing them an image with soft edges means someone else decides where the boundary falls, and that decision is usually worse than yours.

04

The trade-off

Thresholding removes the anti-aliasing that makes a signature look natural on screen, so the result has visibly hard edges. That is correct for manufacturing and wrong for a PDF. Use Black Ink instead when the signature will be viewed rather than cut.

05

Cleaning a poor scan

A threshold is also the fastest way to rescue a grubby scan. Paper discolouration and scanner noise sit well above the cut-off and vanish entirely, leaving only the ink.

How to create a black and white signature

1

Upload the signature

Drop in a scan or photo. Higher resolution gives a smoother edge after thresholding.

2

Set the threshold

Drag the slider until the full signature is present but paper speckle has gone. Higher keeps more ink, lower keeps less.

3

Download

Take a free preview, or download the full-resolution file with one credit.

Where a two-tone signature is required

Rubber stamps

Supply a signature in the two-tone form stamp manufacturing actually needs.

Laser engraving

Give the cutter an unambiguous boundary rather than letting it guess at grey.

Single-ink printing

Prepare artwork for processes that lay down one colour and no halftone.

Cleaning a bad scan

Erase paper discolouration and scanner noise in one pass.

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What people use it for

The jobs the editor was built around — and what it does differently on each one.

Colourways you can revisit

Every edit is a layer, not a bake. When the brand shifts, reopen the file and change the colour rather than rebuilding the variant from the original.

Cutouts with awkward edges

AI background removal that keeps hair, foliage and soft shadows instead of stamping a hard outline around them. The output is a transparent PNG, ready to place.

No export, edit, re-import loop

The Framer plugin runs on the canvas you are already working in, so a recolour or a cutout does not mean a round trip through a second application.

Ten options in the time one used to take

Recolour once and step through the alternatives, so a client review can look at the whole range instead of the one version there was time to make.

Brand colours matched exactly

Pick a colour straight off an existing asset and get the hex, rather than eyeballing it against a screenshot and hoping it is close enough.

Free to preview, priced per export

Previewing is unlimited and costs nothing. A credit is spent only when you download a full-resolution file, so exploring an idea is never the expensive part.

Frequently Asked Questions

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