18 APRIL 2025 UPDATE

Added an experimental patch featuring:
- Adding card art
- Minor edits to the card art
- Saving and loading
- New tags (tarot, planet, spectral, voucher)
- Formatting is more in line with how it is in-game
- Idk if worth mentioning but the ugly pink background is now a more bland blueish gray

There's a bug where the color slider doesn't work, simply uncheck and check the feature you want to edit and it should work again.

The experimental patch is a separate download, not available in browser.

14 MARCH 2025 UPDATE

Updated the UI and some bugfixes.

Autoformatting! Don't worry too much about tags anymore, if you press Live (before or after) you write your text, an algorithm will try to detect which formatting you want to use. It will also use consistent capitalization.

After Live formatting you can deselect it and edit the formatting as you wish to finetune your custom keywords.

If you download the executable, you can now press F12 for screenshots of your created descriptions.

If you download the executable, you can now paste inside the textboxes with CTRL+V.

Enter your desired Joker effect and use the style tags you can find in the description of the tool. The tool will dynamically chance its height and width depending on the length of the effect or the name of the Joker.

Use the up and down keys to change rarity.

Use the enter or tab key to swap Joker name/description

Use style tags to change word color:

[/] - Reset to the default color.

[b] - Changes text color to blue.

[r] - Changes text color to red.

[o] - Changes text color to orange.

[g] - Changes text color to green.

[p] - Changes text color to purple.

[a] - Changes text color to aqua.

[y] - Changes text color to yellow.

[n] - Changes text color to negative color.

[l] - changes text color to light-gray

[1] - Changes text color to diamond color (orange-red).

[2] - Changes text color to club color (dark green).

[3] - Changes text color to heart color (pink-red).

[4] - Changes text color to spade color (deep blue).

[m] - Changes text color to white and enables a red background box behind the text.

[s] - Inserts a new line.

More information

Updated	9 days ago
Status	Released
Category	Tool
Platforms	HTML5, Windows
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (5 total ratings)
Author	OfMonstersAndKen
Made with	GameMaker
Tags	balatro, custom, joker, text, tool

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Balatro Text Tool.zip 4.3 MB

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Comments

shefeto4 days ago

Tried out experimental and found a few issues you might not know all of:

1. You can no longer space out the card by adding spaces on either side of the title

2. Can't set the colour of the joker text nor its outline

3. Tried to use a square image (like photograph is not the normal ratio) and it was stretched (I think, maybe just cropped?)

I'm still very happy with the tool! But I ended up using the non experimental version for my needs this time. Looking forward to the day your tool is all anyone needs!

OfMonstersAndKen3 days ago (1 edit)

Hey, thanks for trying out the experimental tool and the feedback, however there already is a whole refactored version available.

Here on itch.io, or the thread on the official Balatro Discord Server: Discord URL - There is also a trailer available on the Discord server with all the new features. This one is in active development.

Thanks a lot!

Sunny Kim8 days ago

Can you make it so when using the Up and Down keys after Legendary the rarity blob is hidden? (then it cycles back to common)

It would be useful if you were trying to make non-joker descriptions.
Better yet, make the rarity blob also customizable.

OfMonstersAndKen3 days ago (1 edit)

Hello, there's a new version available (as a seperate project) where the rarity blob is customizable!

SwitzerVille42 days ago(+1)

Heads up, when I typed "Destroyed", it automatically colored the "Destroy" text, but not the "ed" part.

BiggySpamtonG199739 days ago(+1)

I think that may be because the word Destroyed does not appear in any of the joker descriptions

BiggySpamtonG199729 days ago

Nvm, alot of things are not auto colored, such as 3x as in mult, chips, and much more

OfMonstersAndKen26 days ago

Can you elaborate what you mean, exactly? To have autocoloring for 3x mult it should be X3 Mult, not 3X.

mansat44 days ago

Hi, are there any plans on designing a text tool for custom balatro boss blinds?

OfMonstersAndKen44 days ago

I assume you asked the same question on Reddit, right? I'll copy-paste it.

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What do you mean with that? The text boxes or the chips themselves?

I plan on, eventually, making every "type" of box. Planets, Tarots, ... they all look a little bit different - and that fits the "I want to remove the tedious bits" goal of the project.

vitorlppf45 days ago

Is it possible to remove the automatic new line as one types text? I'd like to have the option, at least.

OfMonstersAndKen44 days ago (5 edits) (+1)

For now you can change the card name

from "My Custom Card"

to " My Custom Card " (equal spaces on either side).

It's a band-aid fix but it allows you to make custom widths.

You can also use the [s] tag to avoid orphans

BiggySpamtonG199746 days ago

It would be nice if you could cycle between Negative, Foil, Polychrome, and Holographic below the rarity

OfMonstersAndKen44 days ago (1 edit)

Hello! I'm wondering why that would be useful actually. The idea of creating custom jokers is to convey ideas, and an Edition tag (that's the name of the tag you're looking for) is just an element while playing the game. It's like creating a custom HearthStone card but wanting the card to be buffed by another card.

Not trying to be hostile with a "why would you want that?" - I'm really just wondering in which situation you would add an Edition to it. :p

BiggySpamtonG199739 days ago

Can show mods, can show many other stuff that doesn't just show up one time