Start from a blank alignment chart in the size you need — 2×2, 3×3, 4×4 or 5×5. Every template is fully editable: rename the axis labels, drag in text or images, and export a PNG.
Each opens the maker — switch sizes any time from the Grid dropdown.
Popular ways people use a custom alignment chart.
Grid size is really a decision about how much disagreement you want. A 2×2 forces four hard corners and nothing in between, which is why opinion charts and quadrant arguments live there — overrated against underrated, cheap against pricey. The 3×3 is the classic: two axes with a genuine middle, so an item can be neutral on one dimension and extreme on the other.
A 5x5 alignment chart gives twenty-five cells and much finer placement, which is what you want for a long list where a 3×3 would pile eight things into one square. The cost is that every cell needs to mean something, or people place items at random. The 4×4 sits in between and has no true centre, so it suits pairs of opposites where a fence-sitting middle would be a cop-out.
You are not locked in. Every template is a blank alignment chart template that opens in the maker, where the Grid dropdown switches between 2×2, 3×3, 4×4 and 5×5 at any point. Shrinking a grid does not delete anything — items in cells that no longer exist drop back to the tray so you can place them again. Rename the axis labels by clicking them, drag in text or your own images, and export a PNG with no watermark.
The format comes from tabletop role-playing, where a character sits somewhere on lawful–neutral–chaotic crossed with good–neutral–evil. That grid produces the nine moral alignments people still quote — lawful good in one corner, chaotic evil in the opposite one — and a character alignment chart is still the most common reason someone opens a 3×3.
Most charts made today have nothing to do with D&D. Relabel the axes and the same nine boxes sort sandwiches, breakfast cereals, your colleagues' email sign-offs, or every character in a show you have just finished. That is the whole appeal of the alignment chart meme format: two axes anyone can argue about, and a grid small enough that placing something feels like taking a position. If you would rather rank in bands than place on two axes, the tier list maker is the better fit.
Yes — every template is free with no login and no watermark on your export.
Yes. Use the Grid dropdown in the maker to switch between 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 at any time; your placed items move to the tray if a cell is removed.
Yes. Click any row or column label on the board and type your own — the templates are fully customizable.
It is a grid that places items against two axes at once, so each cell means a specific combination rather than a rank. The classic version crosses lawful–neutral–chaotic with good–neutral–evil, but the axes are yours to define — any two qualities that can be argued about independently will work.
On the traditional 3×3 they are lawful good, neutral good and chaotic good along the top; lawful neutral, true neutral and chaotic neutral in the middle; and lawful evil, neutral evil and chaotic evil along the bottom. That grid comes from tabletop role-playing and is still the default reason people reach for a 3×3.
Yes — a blank 5×5 is one of the four sizes, alongside 2×2, 3×3 and 4×4. Twenty-five cells give much finer placement for a long list, which is the usual reason to go past 3×3. You can also switch to it later from the Grid dropdown without starting over.
Pick a grid size above, which opens it in the maker. Click the row and column labels to rename the axes to whatever you are actually judging, then drag items into the cells and export a PNG when it looks right. There is no account and no watermark on the export.
Yes. Drag your own images onto the board as well as text, which is how most meme charts get made — the labels carry the joke and the pictures carry the subjects. The export is a PNG of the finished grid.