Lineage 2 Crest Maker - Free L2 Clan Emblem Generator

Make a custom clan crest for Lineage 2 in seconds. Upload any image or draw one from scratch with the pixel editor, then download a game-ready file. Works with L2 Live, Classic, Essence, and all server versions. Free, private, runs entirely in your browser.

Lineage 2 clan crest generator — works with L2 Live, Classic, and Essence
Clan crest format 16 × 12 px 8-bit · 256 colours .bmp Alliance crest: 8 × 12 px

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PNG with transparency recommended for best results

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How to set your Lineage 2 clan crest

  1. Build your crest above — upload a picture or draw one with the pixel editor.
  2. Click Download to save crest.bmp (a 16×12, 256-colour BMP).
  3. In Lineage 2, open the Clan window (default Alt+N).
  4. Go to Clan Info, click Register Crest, and browse to crest.bmp.
  5. Confirm to apply it. It shows for you immediately and for everyone else after their next zone change.

Only the Clan Leader can set the crest, and the clan must reach the level your server requires (it varies between L2 Live, Classic, Essence, and private/L2J servers). Most clients let you browse to the file straight from the Clan window — a few older clients want crest.bmp in your Lineage 2 install folder first.

Crest rejected or not showing? Common fixes

  • “Invalid file” or nothing happens on upload. The crest must be exactly 16×12 pixels and a 256-colour (8-bit) BMP. Files saved from Photoshop or Paint are usually 24-bit or the wrong size — the file you download here is already in the correct format.
  • Crest looks black or muddy. Lineage 2 paints the full 16×12 rectangle, so empty “transparent” areas fall back to a solid colour. Pick a deliberate background (black is the most common) rather than leaving it blank.
  • Register Crest is greyed out. Only the Clan Leader can change it, and the clan must meet your server's level requirement.
  • Other members still see the old crest. It updates for them after a relog or zone change — it isn't instant clan-wide.
  • Colours look off in-game. The 256-colour palette can't hold smooth gradients; keep to a few flat colours for a clean result at this size.

About Lineage 2 clan crests

Lineage 2 ships your clan's identity in a tiny 16×12 pixel rectangle that the engine paints next to every member's name and on every clan hall flag. The rectangular shape — wider than tall — is unusual among MMOs and traces back to the original NCsoft client, where the crest had to fit between the character name and the HP bar without crowding either one. That ratio rewards horizontal silhouettes and punishes tall designs.

During fortress and castle sieges your crest appears on every banner placed by your clan, on the territory map, and on the scoreboard during PvP. Members of allied clans see it in the alliance window. Spectators in town watch it scroll past every time a clan member rides through. For all of those moments, simple heraldic shapes — a cross, a single animal silhouette, two-tone designs — read far better than dense detail at 16×12.

The Clan Leader is the only character who can register or change the crest, and the clan must reach the required level for the option to unlock (the level varies by server version — L2 Live, Classic, and Essence each set their own). Once registered, the new crest is immediate for the leader; other members see it on their next zone transition.

Design tips for L2 crests. The wider-than-tall canvas rewards horizontal symbols: a leaping lion, a wolf in profile, two crossed swords, a longbow drawn flat. Vertical designs (towers, single sword pointing up) get cropped or squished. Keep the colour count low — the 8-bit indexed BMP format quantises everything to a 256-colour palette anyway, and clans with 3-4 strong colours read better at distance during siege scoreboards than busy 20-colour gradients. Alliance crests are stored separately and are smaller (8×12) but are rendered right next to the clan crest, so colours that complement rather than clash with allies pay off in mass PvP.

Alliance (ally) crests

An alliance crest is a separate, smaller image — 8×12 pixels — that represents a group of allied clans rather than one clan. It's registered by the alliance leader from the Alliance window and is shown beside each clan's own 16×12 crest. It uses the same 256-colour BMP format, so the same rule applies: bold, flat shapes read best at this tiny size. This generator is tuned for clan crests (16×12) — for the smaller coalition badge, use the L2 alliance crest maker.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Lineage 2 uses a wider rectangular shape for clan crests to match the display area in the clan window and above character names. The tool handles this automatically when resizing your image.

Yes, the crest format is the same across all Lineage 2 versions — L2 Live, Classic, Essence, and community servers.

Simple logos, pixel art, bold icons, and symbols. Avoid photographs, gradients, or highly detailed artwork — they don't scale well to such a small size. Upload a PNG for best results, or use the built-in pixel editor and clipart.

Above characters' heads next to the clan name, in the clan window, on clan hall flags, during siege warfare, and in various clan UI elements.

Clan crests (16×12 px) represent a single clan. Alliance — or ally — crests are smaller, 8×12 px, represent a group of allied clans, and are registered by the alliance leader. Both use the same 256-colour BMP format. This tool builds clan crests.

An alliance crest is an 8×12-pixel, 256-colour BMP set by the alliance leader from the Alliance window, shown next to each clan's 16×12 crest. Design it the same way — bold, flat shapes at a low colour count read best at this tiny size.

Start with the built-in gallery — it's hand-picked for the 16×12 rectangular canvas, which is unusually wide. For more variety, three sites are worth a look. game-icons.net hosts around 4,000 fantasy and medieval SVG icons under CC BY 3.0 (attribution required) — the catalogue maps cleanly to L2's setting. SVG Repo is a much larger pool filterable by license, with many CC0 entries. OpenClipart is public domain. Pick something with a strong silhouette — a lion, dragon, crossed swords, two-tone heraldic shield — drop it into the upload tab, then run Enhance to reduce colours and tighten edges for the 16×12 output. Wide silhouettes fit the rectangular crest shape better than tall ones.