What it is
StampMakerTool's Date Stamp Generator draws the face of a dater — a status word such as RECEIVED, PAID or APPROVED across the top, and a date underneath in a fixed window. Everything renders live in the browser as an SVG, and you can download the result as a transparent PNG or a vector SVG, free and without a watermark or signup.
Seven date formats, and who each one is for
The tool's central idea is that a stamp is not a database field — it is ink on a page that another person, possibly in another country and possibly years later, has to read without asking what you meant. So it offers seven formats rather than one default:
- YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) — sorts correctly as plain text, good for pages that get filed, scanned or sorted later
- YYYYMMDD — digits only, for batch numbering and filenames
- MM/DD/YYYY — US internal paperwork
- DD/MM/YYYY — UK and most of Europe
- DD MMM YYYY — mixed international readers; the month is a word, so day and month cannot be swapped
- MMM DD, YYYY — US correspondence
- D Month YYYY — GOV.UK house style, month spelled out
The 03/04 problem
Write 03/04/2026 and you have written two dates: 3 April in the US, 4 March in the UK and much of Europe. Any day from the 1st to the 12th can be misread this way — 132 days a year. The builder flags this live: pick an all-numeric format on an ambiguous date and it tells you the other calendar day your digits describe. Formats with a spelled-out month, or ISO 8601, are unaffected.
Customisation and export
Eight preset status words (RECEIVED, PAID, APPROVED, ENTERED, SCANNED, VOID, ORIGINAL, COPY) plus a free-text field up to 24 characters. Longer words are set smaller to fit the frame. The PNG exports at 1000×571 on a transparent background; the SVG is vector and single-colour, so it scales to any size a printer asks for — send the SVG to a stamp manufacturer if you want a physical dater made.
Honest limits
It draws artwork only — it does not make or sell a physical stamp, and it has no opinion on records rules or jurisdiction. Type is set in Georgia and Courier New so exported files do not depend on a webfont. There is no calendar logic beyond the date you choose: no business-day arithmetic, no time, no auto-advancing. Nothing is uploaded — all drawing happens in the tab.