Fancy Text Generator

About the Fancy Text Generator

Type your text once and see it in 32 styles at the same time: bold, italic, script (cursive), Fraktur (Gothic), double-struck, sans-serif, monospace, small caps, circled “bubble” letters, squares, fullwidth “vaporwave” letters, strikethrough, underline, upside down, a glitch (Zalgo) style and more. Copy any of them with one click and paste it into a bio, a post, a comment or a display name.

These are not fonts. Each style is made of real Unicode characters — 𝐀 is MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL A, Ⓐ is CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A — so the style survives copy and paste into apps that do not let you choose a font. The catch is that screen readers, search engines and hashtags may not treat them as normal letters; the page explains when to avoid them.

Common uses

• Making a name, headline or call to action stand out in a social-media bio or post.
• Adding emphasis (bold, italic, strikethrough) in apps that have no formatting buttons.
• Decorating gamer tags, chat messages and greeting messages.
• Turning styled text you received back into plain, searchable letters.

Where the styles come from

• Bold, italic, script, Fraktur, double-struck, sans-serif and monospace use the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block (U+1D400–U+1D7FF). A few letters were encoded earlier in Letterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F) — for example ℎ (italic h), ℬ (script B) and ℂ (double-struck C) — and are taken from there, as Unicode Technical Report #25 describes.
• Circled, squared and parenthesized letters and digits come from the Enclosed Alphanumerics blocks.
• Small caps use the small-capital letters of the phonetic alphabets (ᴀ, ʙ, ᴄ …), and superscript uses modifier letters (ᵃ, ᵇ, ᶜ …).
• Fullwidth uses the fullwidth forms made for East Asian text (Ａ, ｂ, ！).
• Lines add a combining mark after every character: a long stroke for strikethrough (U+0336), a low line for underline (U+0332), an overline (U+0305) and others.
• Glitch stacks random combining marks above, through and below each letter. It is capped at a few marks per letter (11 at the highest setting), so the text stays readable and does not run into lines above and below.

Accessibility and search: when not to use fancy text

The Unicode Standard intends the mathematical letters for mathematics, not for styling ordinary text, and software treats them that way:

• Screen readers may skip them, spell them out letter by letter, or read each one by its Unicode name, so a styled name or sentence can become hard to understand for blind and partially sighted readers.
• Search inside apps and on the web may not match styled letters, so people searching for your name or for a hashtag written in fancy letters may not find it.
• Usernames and @handles on many platforms allow only plain letters and digits, so styled letters are often rejected there.

Use styles for decoration — a word or two of emphasis — and keep names, hashtags, links and important information in plain text.

Limitations

• Only the letters A–Z and a–z and the digits 0–9 (with any accents on them) have styled versions. Letters from other alphabets, such as Greek, Cyrillic or Hindi, are left as they are.
• Not every style has every character: italic, script and Fraktur have no digits, the squared and black styles have capital letters only, and Unicode has no small capital X.
• If a style shows empty boxes, your device has no font for those characters; other people may see them correctly, or not, depending on their device.
• Many styled letters — bold, italic, script and the other mathematical styles, and the squared letters — are stored as two UTF-16 code units, so apps that count characters that way count each of them as two toward length limits.
• Upside-down, mirrored and spaced-out text cannot be turned back automatically; use the Reverse Text tool to turn upside-down or mirrored text back.

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