Coat of Arms Maker — design your family crest with AI

Work through the parts in order: pick a shield shape, choose one metal and one colour, add one or two symbols, then a helmet or crown, optional supporters, and the family name and motto in quotes. Describe all of that in one prompt and generate with GPT Image 2, which spelled names and mottos most reliably in our tests. Make a few versions and keep your favourite.

Yes, to start. A new Kenerate account gets 25 credits on sign-up, and Qwen Image 3.0 — on the free plan at 9 credits a design — can put a short name or motto in the image. GPT Image 2, the most reliable with names and mottos, needs a one-time credit pack rather than a subscription, and credits never expire. Downloads have no watermark.

Use this prompt as a template and swap the parts in capitals: 'Coat of arms for the fictional family NAME: HEATER shield, GOLD CHARGE on RED, knight's helmet with a CREST ANIMAL, mantling, banner reading MOTTO, classic heraldry, white background'. Every crest on this page was made from a prompt with that structure.

Yes. Put both in quotes in the prompt and say where they go, such as the family name on a banner and the motto on a scroll below the shield. Every crest on this page has its name and motto generated in the image by GPT Image 2. Latin is traditional for mottos; say which language you want.

It is another name for a coat of arms or family crest maker: a tool that designs the shield — its shape, colours and symbols — and usually the parts around it. Here you describe the shield in words; ask for 'shield only, no helmet or supporters' if you just want the shield.

Yes. You can design your own coat of arms or family crest for personal use — framed prints, invitations, a reunion T-shirt — by describing the shield, symbols, motto and name, as the six crests on this page show. This coat of arms maker creates a new design; it is not an official grant of arms, which is a separate legal matter in some countries.

No. Builders let you click a shield, then drop pre-drawn symbols and a motto ribbon onto it. Here you describe the whole coat of arms in one prompt and the AI draws it, so you get a finished illustration in any style rather than a stack of stock parts. To change one part, attach your crest as a reference and ask for just that change, such as a different motto or a second symbol.

No. The generator designs a new crest from your description; it doesn't look up historical arms or confirm what a family used in the past. To make it personal, pick symbols that mean something to your family, such as a trade, a place or a value, and keep it to one or two symbols so the crest reads at small sizes.

Strictly, the crest is only the figure on top of the helmet, and the coat of arms is the full design: shield, helmet, crest, mantling, supporters and motto. In everyday use, 'family crest' means the whole coat of arms, which is how this generator treats it.

Heraldry uses tinctures: two metals, gold (or) and silver (argent), and five colours — red (gules), blue (azure), green (vert), black (sable) and purple (purpure) — plus furs such as ermine. The rule of tincture says don't put a metal on a metal or a colour on a colour, so a gold lion on red reads well and a red lion on blue doesn't. Name the colours in your prompt.

Yes. Ask for a plain white background, then use Remove BG in Edit Studio for a transparent PNG for T-shirts, mugs and stickers. For printing and framing, generate at 2K or 4K with GPT Image 2, or upscale a 1K crest with the Image Upscaler. Downloads carry no watermark.