Coupon PNG Generator | Scissor-Line 1200x600 Discount Banners
Drop in a brand name, discount value, tagline, promo code, and expiry date to build a wide 1200x600 PNG coupon with dashed cut lines and scissor notches on both ends. Three palettes (Crimson, Forest, Royal) cover most brand colors, and the output drops cleanly into newsletter banners, in-store POP signage, or social ad creatives.
💡 About this tool
If you run an online store, you've probably noticed how much friction sits between "we want to run a 20% off promo this week" and actually having a usable visual for the email blast. You open Canva or Photoshop, pull up an old template, swap the brand name, retype the discount, tweak the font size because the new copy is longer, export, double-check the dimensions, re-export. Multiply that by every campaign and the maintenance cost adds up.
This tool exists to absorb only that repetitive coupon-generation step. Five form fields - brand name, discount value, tagline, promo code, expiry - get rendered onto a 1200x600 Canvas 2D image with dashed cut lines, half-circle scissor notches on the left and right edges, and a vertical stub area on the right where the promo code displays in rotated text. It's the "obviously a coupon" silhouette you remember from paper vouchers, transplanted into a wide banner aspect that fits modern email and social formats.
The three themes (Crimson red, Forest green, Royal blue) are designed to land near most retail brand palettes. Long copy gets auto-shrunk to fit inside its bounding box, so a 32-character brand name or a 40-character tagline won't blow out the layout - you don't have to rewrite headlines to make them fit.
🧐 Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What's the exact output size? A. 1200x600 pixels, PNG format. It's a wide aspect ratio chosen to play well with email header images, ecommerce site banners, and social media post visuals without further cropping.
Q. Can I swap the currency symbol in amount mode? A. The currency is fixed per language. On the English page it shows $, on the Japanese page ¥, on the Spanish and French pages €, and on the Portuguese page R$. The symbol follows whichever language page you're on.
Q. What happens if my brand name or tagline runs long? A. Brand names have a 32-character cap, taglines a 40-character cap. Within those limits, the text auto-shrinks to fit its slot, so longer copy still renders without overflow or wrapping.
Q. Where does the promo code appear? A. On the right-side vertical stub, rendered as rotated text. The code field accepts up to 12 characters and is designed for short alphanumeric strings like SAVE20 or SUMMER25.
Q. Is the output good for print as well? A. The 1200x600 PNG is sized for screen use - email, web, social. For print-grade coupons you'll want a tool that exports at print resolution (300 DPI on a sheet size like Letter or A4). This one stays in the digital-banner lane.
Q. Can I turn off the scissor notches or dashed line? A. No - the scissor-line silhouette is the whole point of this generator, so it's always drawn. If you want a flat rectangular promo banner without the cut-line styling, a generic banner maker is a better fit.
📚 Why the scissor-line layout still works on screen
The dashed cut line and the little scissor notch ("✂---") on a paper coupon were originally a literal instruction: cut here, bring the slip with you. Decades of print advertising made that mark synonymous with "this is a discount you can claim," to the point where you recognize a coupon from across the room before you read a single word on it.
What's interesting is how durable that visual shorthand turned out to be. On a phone screen there's nothing to cut, no physical slip to carry to a register - and yet the dashed line and notch survive on email banners, app promo cards, and SNS images. The mark stopped meaning "use scissors" and started meaning "this is the special, claimable thing." It survived the format transition because the semantic - "redeemable offer, take it with you" - mapped cleanly onto the digital equivalents like a saved promo code or a stored discount on an account.
That's exactly why this generator leans into the silhouette rather than shipping a clean rectangle: in a crowded inbox, the scissor-notch banner reads as "coupon" before the recipient parses the headline, and that recognition gap is most of what gets a promo opened.