Build a 2×2, 3×3 or custom grid, drag in text or your own images, rename the axis labels, and export a clean PNG. A free alignment chart generator with nothing to install and no account.
Tip: use the Grid dropdown for 2×2–5×5, click any axis label to rename it, and Add items to paste a list or upload images.
This alignment chart maker gives you a labeled grid you fill by dragging tiles into cells. It opens on the classic 3×3 — Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic across the top, Good, Neutral and Evil down the side — with eight sample characters in the tray, from Superman to Loki. Switch to 2×2, 4×4 or 5×5, rename any label, and download the finished chart as a PNG.
Start with the classic 3×3, or switch to 2×2, 4×4 or 5×5. Rename the row and column labels to fit your topic.
Paste a list of names or upload images, then drag each tile into the cell that fits.
Preview it, download a crisp PNG, or copy a share link — free, no watermark.
Planning one takes a minute. Pick a topic, then list roughly nine things that fit it — characters, coffee orders, your group chat's worst habits. Paste them into Add items one per line (commas work too) and hit Add to tray; each line becomes a text tile. A 3×3 gives you one per cell, but a cell can hold several, so three villains can pile into the same corner. Going bigger with a 5×5 alignment chart? Its default labels are just A–E and 1–5, so rename every axis label first. The board saves in your browser as you go, so closing the tab won't wipe it.
An alignment chart is a labeled grid that sorts things along two axes. The most famous is the 3×3 Lawful Good → Chaotic Evil chart, but the format works for anything: place items by two qualities at once — like "cheap ↔ expensive" against "good ↔ bad."
This alignment chart creator lets you build that grid in seconds. Because the axis labels and grid size are fully editable, it doubles as a custom alignment chart maker — make a 2×2 quadrant, a 3×3 meme, or a bigger 5×5 grid, all from one tool. Or start from a ready blank alignment chart template.
Need to rank things in tiers instead of a grid? Try the tier list maker — same drag-and-drop, S–D rows instead of a grid.
The format comes from Dungeons & Dragons. The original 1974 rules gave characters just three alignments: lawful, neutral or chaotic. Co-creator Gary Gygax added a second axis, good versus evil, in a 1976 magazine article, and the 1977 Basic Set built both into the game. Two scales, each with a neutral middle, give the nine combinations people chart today. Gygax credited the fantasy fiction of Michael Moorcock and Poul Anderson for the law-and-chaos idea (Wikipedia has the full history).
Reading one gets easy once you split it into two questions. The Lawful–Chaotic columns are usually called the ethical axis: does this character respect rules and order, or follow their own impulses? The Good–Evil rows are the moral axis: do they act for others or for themselves? Where the two answers cross is their alignment. That same logic is why the grid works as a dnd alignment chart maker for your party and a moral alignment chart maker for anything you want to judge on right and wrong.
The classic — sort movie, game or show characters into Lawful Good through Chaotic Evil.
Make a 2×2 of foods, brands or takes — "overrated ↔ underrated" vs "cheap ↔ pricey."
Build the viral "alignment chart" meme with your own labels and images, then share it.
A few more that get people arguing: an OC alignment chart for your original characters, your D&D party the night before a session, or the sandwich chart that finally settles whether a hot dog counts. Email sign-offs never miss — "Best," is about as Lawful Neutral as it gets. For a political alignment chart, switch to the 2×2 and relabel it left–right against authoritarian–libertarian. That quadrant also makes a decent classroom icebreaker or brainstorming sort (effort against impact), and as an alignment chart meme maker it ends where memes should: as a PNG in your social feed.
Each cell on the classic grid is a column plus a row, read ethics first — so the top-left cell is Lawful Good and the bottom-right is Chaotic Evil. The dead center, where Neutral meets Neutral, usually goes by True Neutral. Here's what each one tends to mean, with the kind of alignment chart examples people reach for first.
Lawful Good follows a moral code and the rules that come with it — the principled knight, or Superman, who's already in the tray. Neutral Good does the right thing without much interest in who wrote the rules. Chaotic Good is the rebel with a conscience: Robin Hood, or anyone who prizes freedom and individuality but still shows up to help.
The middle row is murkier. Lawful Neutral puts duty and order above good or evil — the judge who applies the law even when it stings. True Neutral stays out of it, either balancing on purpose (the druids of D&D) or just not taking sides. Chaotic Neutral is unpredictable and answers to nobody; Jack Sparrow is the usual pick, and plenty of people put Han Solo here too.
Then the villains. Lawful Evil bends rules and hierarchy toward selfish ends — the tyrant, the crooked official and, for most people, Vader. Neutral Evil is pure self-interest with no loyalty to anyone. Chaotic Evil is the agent of chaos, wrecking things for the fun of it, and the Joker is the textbook case.
None of these placements are fixed — expect pushback on at least a couple. Use the grid as a character alignment chart maker for any cast you know well, from a sitcom ensemble to your own family, and see who lands where. Want a pre-labeled layout instead? The alignment chart templates page has ready-made layouts to start from.
A tool that lets you build a labeled grid — like the classic 3x3 Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil chart — and drag text or images into each cell, then export it as an image.
Yes. It is completely free with no login and no watermark on your exported PNG.
Yes. Choose a 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 grid, and rename both the row and column axis labels to anything you like.
Yes. Upload your own images — characters, logos, photos — and drag them into the grid, or use plain text tiles.
Click Export PNG for a clean image, or use Share to copy a link that reopens your chart's labels and text tiles for others to remix — photos you uploaded stay on your device, so share those charts as a PNG.
Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil and Chaotic Evil. They come from crossing two three-step scales — lawful, neutral or chaotic on one, good, neutral or evil on the other — which is why the same nine also get called the moral alignments. On this grid the Lawful–Chaotic labels run across the columns and Good–Evil down the rows, so every cell is one of the nine.
Read each cell as its column plus its row. The column says how someone treats rules: Lawful respects them, Chaotic ignores them. The row says who they act for: Good helps others, Evil helps itself. A tile in the Chaotic column and the Good row is Chaotic Good. Custom charts work exactly the same way with different words, which is why clear axis labels matter more than anything else you put on the grid.
A clear topic, labels anyone gets at a glance, and at least one tile in every cell. The ones that get shared tend to include a placement or two people will fight you on — if everything is obvious, nobody reacts. Keep tiles consistent: short text, or images in one shape (Customize can crop image tiles to Square, Round, Portrait or Landscape). Then open Preview before you export so nothing gets cut off.
Dungeons & Dragons. The original 1974 game had three alignments: lawful, neutral and chaotic. Co-creator Gary Gygax added the good-versus-evil axis in 1976, and the 1977 Basic Set brought both axes into the game; with a neutral middle on each, that makes nine alignments. Online, the grid later broke loose from the game and turned into a meme format, used to sort everything from cartoon characters to sandwiches into the same nine cells.
Not live — there's no real-time co-editing, and each board saves in one browser. What works is putting the chart on a shared screen during a call or class and letting everyone weigh in on each placement before you drag it. Afterwards, export a PNG for the group chat, or copy a share link: it opens a copy with your labels and text tiles in place, so someone else can rearrange them.
Item names and images you add are your own. Tier List Maker is an independent tool and isn't affiliated with any brand or franchise you chart.