A 1994 date on a 2026 photo.

No. Everything renders to a canvas in your browser. Your photo never touches our servers — we don't run an image pipeline at all.

We use system monospace because it works everywhere with no font download. The LED look comes from the color, the glow shadow, and the letterspacing — not from a 7-segment display font. The result reads as period-correct without a 200KB font file.

Yes. Click any corner button (TL, TR, BL, BR) to snap to that corner. To free-position, click and drag the stamp directly on the canvas — once you do, the corner buttons stop snapping until you click one again.

Sony Handycam-era LED dates look like ’94 12 25 (apostrophe-prefixed two-digit year, then month and day with spaces). Pick that format, the LED red style, bottom-right corner — exactly what a Hi8 tape would have shown.

Mostly yes. The text is rendered into the JPG before upload, so IG can't strip it as metadata. The glow may soften slightly under heavy compression — bumping size to 5–6% (instead of the default 4%) keeps it readable.

Yes — the date picker accepts any date. The stamp is purely cosmetic, not a metadata field. Useful for fictional projects, fake-history posts, designed timelines, or just deciding the photo deserved a different decade.