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Center Text
Centre every line within a width using real spaces.
Quick Tool Overview
Center Text pads each line with leading spaces so it sits in the middle of the width you set — the way a banner, a README title or an email signature is centred when there is no formatting available. Blank lines stay genuinely blank.
- What it does
- Centres every line within a set width
- You give it
- A title, banner, signature or block of lines
- You get back
- The text padded to sit centred
- Best for
- ASCII banners, README titles and plain-text signatures
About the Center Text
Centring plain text is how you make a banner, a heading in a README, a title block in a code comment or the middle of an email signature. There is no formatting to lean on, so the centring has to be made of spaces.
Set the width and every line is padded with enough leading spaces to sit in the middle of it. Blank lines stay blank rather than becoming a run of spaces, which matters because trailing whitespace on an otherwise empty line is the kind of thing that shows up in a diff. Lines longer than the width are reported rather than silently overflowing, and can be wrapped first so the whole block centres properly.
Key features of the Center Text
Real spaces, not formatting
The centring is built from characters, so it survives being pasted into a terminal or a plain-text email.
Blank lines stay blank
No run of spaces on an empty line, which is exactly the invisible whitespace a diff would flag.
Odd remainders handled
A line that cannot be perfectly centred puts the extra space on the side you choose.
Optional wrapping first
Lines longer than the width can be wrapped so the whole block centres cleanly rather than overflowing.
Width presets
Eighty for terminals and seventy-two for email are one click, since those are the conventions.
How to use the Center Text
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1
Paste your text
A title, a banner, a signature or a block of lines.
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Set the width
The character width to centre within — eighty for a terminal, seventy-two for email.
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Wrap long lines if needed
Lines longer than the width can be wrapped first so the whole block centres cleanly.
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Copy the centred text
The spacing is real characters, so it holds anywhere a monospaced font is used.
Frequently asked questions
Because a line with an odd number of leftover spaces cannot be perfectly centred. The extra space goes on the right by default, which is the convention; there is a switch to put it on the left instead.
In a plain-text email, yes. In an HTML email the font is usually proportional, so space-based centring drifts — use a CSS text-align rule there instead.
They stay genuinely blank rather than being filled with spaces, so the result has no invisible trailing whitespace on empty lines.
Not meaningfully — it would overflow. Switch on wrapping and the line is broken to fit first, then every resulting line is centred.
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