Type a word and see it spelled in Minecraft letter banners, in the two colors you choose. The whole Minecraft alphabet, A–Z and 0–9, comes with loom steps, a Java /give command and a shopping list of banners and dyes.
Letter color
Background color
What you need
Full alphabet
Every letter, digit and symbol previewed in your two colors.
Letters
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q * R S T U V * W X Y Z
Numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 * 7 8 9 *
Symbols
- + . !
* closest shape a loom can make within six layers
A–Z and 0–9
The full Minecraft banner alphabet
Each recipe uses two dyes: the letter color and the background color. Start with a banner in the color named under “Base”, then apply the layers from top to bottom in a loom.
Banner A
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Chief
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner B
Base: Letter
Background → Roundel
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure Indented (needs the Bordure Indented Banner Pattern)
Letter → Pale Dexter
Background → Bordure
Banner C
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner D
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure Indented (needs the Bordure Indented Banner Pattern)
Letter → Pale Dexter
Background → Bordure
Banner E
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Chief
Letter → Fess
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner F
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Chief
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner G
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Sinister
Background → Per Fess
Letter → Base
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Chief
Background → Bordure
Banner H
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner I
Base: Background
Letter → Pale
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner J
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Background → Per Fess
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner K
Base: Background
Letter → Saltire
Background → Per Pale
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Roundel
Background → Bordure
Banner L
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner M
Base: Background
Letter → Saltire
Background → Per Fess Inverted
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Background → Bordure
Banner N
Base: Background
Letter → Bend
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Background → Bordure
Banner O
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner P
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Sinister
Background → Per Fess Inverted
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Chief
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner Q closest shape
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Letter → Base Sinister Canton
Banner R
Base: Background
Letter → Per Fess
Background → Pale
Letter → Chief
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Bend
Background → Bordure
Banner S
Base: Background
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Letter → Bend
Background → Bordure
Banner T
Base: Background
Letter → Pale
Letter → Chief
Background → Bordure
Banner U
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner V closest shape
Base: Background
Letter → Saltire
Background → Per Fess Inverted
Background → Bordure
Banner W
Base: Background
Letter → Saltire
Background → Per Fess
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Background → Bordure
Banner X
Base: Background
Letter → Saltire
Background → Bordure
Banner Y
Base: Background
Letter → Inverted Chevron
Letter → Pale
Background → Bordure
Banner Z
Base: Background
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Letter → Bend Sinister
Background → Bordure
Banner 0
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Letter → Bend Sinister
Background → Bordure
Banner 1
Base: Background
Letter → Pale
Letter → Chief Dexter Canton
Letter → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner 2
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Sinister
Background → Per Fess Inverted
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Letter → Bend Sinister
Background → Bordure
Banner 3
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Chief
Letter → Base
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner 4
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Background → Per Fess Inverted
Letter → Pale Sinister
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner 5
Base: Background
Letter → Pale Dexter
Background → Per Fess Inverted
Letter → Chief
Letter → Fess
Letter → Base Sinister Canton
Background → Bordure
Banner 6 closest shape
Base: Letter
Background → Roundel
Letter → Fess
Background → Chief Sinister Canton
Background → Bordure
Banner 7
Base: Background
Letter → Bend Sinister
Letter → Chief
Background → Bordure
Banner 8
Base: Letter
Background → Roundel
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner 9 closest shape
Base: Letter
Background → Roundel
Letter → Fess
Background → Base Dexter Canton
Background → Bordure
Banner -
Base: Background
Letter → Fess
Background → Bordure
Banner +
Base: Background
Letter → Pale
Letter → Fess
Background → Chief
Background → Base
Background → Bordure
Banner .
Base: Background
Letter → Base
Background → Pale Dexter
Background → Pale Sinister
Background → Bordure
Banner !
Base: Background
Letter → Pale
Background → Per Fess Inverted
Letter → Base
Background → Pale Dexter
Background → Pale Sinister
Background → Bordure
How it works
Spell a word in banners
01
Type your word
Enter a name, a shop sign or a team tag. Each character becomes one banner; spaces leave a gap.
02
Pick two colors
Choose the letter color and the background color. Strong contrast, like black on white, reads from far away.
03
Follow the loom steps
The recipe list below shows the base banner, dye and pattern for every layer, in order. Or copy the /give commands for your word from the sidebar.
04
Hang them in a row
Place the banners side by side on a wall, left to right, to spell the word.
What you get
Everything you need for banner signs
A–Z, 0–9 and symbols
All 26 letters, 10 numbers and - + . ! as banners, shown in your colors as you type.
Survival-ready
Every design fits the six-layer loom limit, so you can craft the whole alphabet without commands.
Shopping list
See how many banners of each color and how many dyes the whole word takes, plus any pattern item it needs.
/give commands
Copy the commands for the whole word, for Java 1.20.5 and later or the older 1.13–1.20.4 format.
Honest approximations
Letters a loom cannot draw exactly (V, Q, 6 and 9) are marked, so nothing looks wrong by surprise.
PNG export
Save the whole word as one PNG, ready to print or share.
Tips
How banner letters work
Minecraft has no letter patterns. Every letter is built from the ordinary stripes, halves and diagonals, stacked in a loom in the right order. A layer dyed in the background color does not add a shape, it erases one, and that trick is what makes most of the alphabet possible.
Keep the border
Almost every letter ends with a Bordure in the background color. It trims the strokes away from the edge, so neighbouring banners do not run into each other and the word stays readable.
Order matters
Each layer covers the ones below it. Apply the steps exactly in the listed order: a background layer applied too early erases nothing, and applied too late it can cut a stroke in half.
B and D need a pattern item
Their rounded side uses Bordure Indented. Since Java 1.21.2 the loom only offers it when a Bordure Indented Banner Pattern (paper and vines) is in the pattern slot. The item is not used up.
Copy instead of re-dyeing
To make a second banner with the same letter, put the finished banner and a blank banner of the same base color in a crafting grid. You get two copies and keep the original.
Plan the wall
Each banner is one block wide, so a word needs as many blocks of wall as it has characters. Leave one empty block for each space.
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FAQ
Minecraft banner letter questions
How do you make letters on banners in Minecraft?
Start with a banner in the background color, then use a loom to add patterns in the letter color, such as stripes on the left, right, top and middle for an A. Finish with a Bordure in the background color. Every letter’s exact steps are in the recipe list below.
Can every letter be made in survival?
Yes. Every design here uses six layers or fewer, the most a loom allows. B and D also need a Bordure Indented Banner Pattern in Java 1.21.2 and later.
Why do some letters have a star?
A banner is only 20 pixels wide and a loom stops at six layers, so a few shapes such as V, Q, 6 and 9 cannot be drawn exactly. The star marks the closest shape that can be made.
Do these work in Bedrock Edition?
The loom steps use the same patterns, so you can follow them in Bedrock. Bedrock’s /give command cannot set banner patterns, so the commands are for Java only.
Can I make lowercase letters?
Banners are too small for separate lowercase shapes. Lowercase letters you type are shown as capitals.
Where is the full Minecraft banner alphabet?
Right below the tool. Every letter and number of the Minecraft banner alphabet is listed with its base banner and layers, in letter and background colors, so you can craft any Minecraft letters without typing a word first.
What colors work best?
High contrast reads best from a distance: black on white, white on black, or yellow on blue. Avoid pairs like gray and light gray.
