Fancy Text Generator
Type once and copy any of 17 styles: bold, italic, script, gothic, outline, bubble, small caps, small text, strikethrough, upside down and more. These are Unicode characters rather than fonts, so they paste into bios, usernames and posts that strip formatting. Every row has its own copy button, each style says whether it is made of real letters, lookalike characters or combining marks, and a character with no styled form is left as typed instead of being dropped.
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17 styles. Real letters paste anywhere; lookalikes and combining marks depend on the app, and the line under each name says which you are copying.
What each style is made of, and where it survives. These are characters, not a font, so the look travels with the text into any field that takes Unicode. Three kinds:
Real letters: real Unicode letters, safe everywhere. Bold, Italic, Bold italic, Script, Bold script, Gothic, Outline, Sans bold, Monospace, Bubble, Square, Wide.Lookalikes: lookalike characters, a few letters have no form. Small caps, Small text, Upside down.Combining marks: combining marks, some apps strip them. Strikethrough, Underline.
Accuracy. Bold, italic, script, gothic, outline, monospace and bubble styles are real Unicode letters that paste anywhere text is allowed; small caps, small text and upside-down use lookalike characters, and strikethrough and underline add combining marks that a few apps remove. Letters with no styled form are left as typed.
The alphabet in five styles
Bold, italic, script and outline are real Unicode letters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, with the gaps Unicode left filled from Letterlike Symbols. Small caps borrows phonetic characters: x has no small capital and stays as typed, and there are no small-capital digits. The five sub-pages carry the other alphabets.
| Style | Capitals | Lowercase | Digits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bold | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ก ๐ข ๐ฃ ๐ค ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐ง ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ช ๐ซ ๐ฌ ๐ญ ๐ฎ ๐ฏ ๐ฐ ๐ฑ ๐ฒ ๐ณ | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ |
| Italic | ๐ด ๐ต ๐ถ ๐ท ๐ธ ๐น ๐บ ๐ป ๐ผ ๐ฝ ๐พ ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ โ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ก ๐ข ๐ฃ ๐ค ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐ง | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
| Script | ๐ โฌ ๐ ๐ โฐ โฑ ๐ข โ โ ๐ฅ ๐ฆ โ โณ ๐ฉ ๐ช ๐ซ ๐ฌ โ ๐ฎ ๐ฏ ๐ฐ ๐ฑ ๐ฒ ๐ณ ๐ด ๐ต | ๐ถ ๐ท ๐ธ ๐น โฏ ๐ป โ ๐ฝ ๐พ ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ โด ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
| Outline | ๐ธ ๐น โ ๐ป ๐ผ ๐ฝ ๐พ โ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ โ ๐ โ โ โ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ โค | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ก ๐ข ๐ฃ ๐ค ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐ง ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ช ๐ซ | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ก |
| Small caps | แด ส แด แด แด ๊ฐ ษข ส ษช แด แด ส แด ษด แด แด วซ ส ๊ฑ แด แด แด แดก X ส แดข | แด ส แด แด แด ๊ฐ ษข ส ษช แด แด ส แด ษด แด แด วซ ส ๊ฑ แด แด แด แดก x ส แดข | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
Common questions
- Why does a style break or show boxes in some apps?
- Three reasons, and the line under each style's name tells you which applies. Bold, italic, script, gothic, outline, monospace and bubble are single characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and enclosed letter blocks: they survive any field that takes Unicode, and only a device with no font for that block draws boxes, which is rare on a phone or desktop made in the last decade. Small caps, small text and upside down borrow characters from phonetic and other alphabets, so a font may draw one letter in a slightly different weight from its neighbours. Strikethrough and underline add a combining mark after every character, and a few apps and most username fields strip combining marks on the way in, which leaves the plain text behind.
- Are these actually fonts?
- No. A font changes how the same characters are drawn, and nothing you paste carries a font with it. Each style here swaps every letter for a different Unicode character that happens to look bold (๐), cursive (๐ถ) or outlined (๐), so the look travels with the text. That is also why a page search or a spell checker does not see a bold a as the letter a: to the computer it is a different character.
- Can screen readers read fancy text?
- Mostly not, and it is worth knowing before you put it in a bio. A screen reader meets ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ and either spells it out as mathematical bold small b, mathematical bold small o and so on, or skips it, depending on the reader and the platform. Upside down and small caps borrow letters from phonetic alphabets that are read as those sounds. Use styled text for a name or a heading where the plain version is nearby, not for the message itself.
- What happens to numbers, accents and emoji?
- Bold, outline, sans bold, monospace, bubble, wide and small text have digits of their own, and upside down flips the digits that have a convincing rotated form; italic, bold italic, script, bold script, gothic, square and small caps have none, so a digit stays as typed in those rows. Accented letters like รฉ and รฑ, and letters from other alphabets, have no styled form in any Unicode block, so they are left exactly as typed rather than dropped. Emoji pass through every style whole: strikethrough and underline add a single mark after each emoji rather than cutting a family or a flag into its parts, because the tool works on characters as a reader counts them.
- Can I use fancy text in a username?
- It depends on the site. Most username and handle fields accept letters, digits and a little punctuation and reject or strip everything else, so styled text works in display names, bios and captions far more often than in handles. Try the display name first. If a site does accept a styled handle, remember that nobody can type it to find you.
- How is this different from the zalgo text generator?
- Zalgo stacks many combining marks on each character to make it look glitched, and the result is a tower of marks above and below the line. This tool swaps characters for styled equivalents and adds at most one mark per character, in the two mark styles only. Both run in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Bold, italic, script, gothic, outline, monospace and bubble styles are real Unicode letters that paste anywhere text is allowed; small caps, small text and upside-down use lookalike characters, and strikethrough and underline add combining marks that a few apps remove. Letters with no styled form are left as typed.