Abstract: Digital apparatus for generating video characters with various kinds of edging is disclosed. The apparatus employs a plurality of digital delay registers which are used to generate a replica of the video information which is delayed by a preselected number of scan lines. The video information together with the delayed signals produced by the delay registers are provided to a pair of shift registers which generate fixed background patterns depending on the kind of edge information which is selected and a character body signal. The background pattern and the character body signal are then combined to produce the final video character output.