What is fancy text?

Fancy text looks like text in a different font, but it is made of special Unicode characters. Unicode includes complete alphabets in bold, italic, script, Fraktur, double-struck, sans-serif, and monospace styles for use in mathematics, as well as circled, squared, and fullwidth letters. Because these are characters and not formatting, they keep their look when you paste them into places that only accept plain text, such as social media bios, usernames, and chat messages.

Tool description

This tool shows your text in 26 styles at once. Type or paste your text and copy the style you want with one click. It covers the math alphabets, enclosed letters, fullwidth letters, small caps, superscript, upside-down text, and lines drawn through or under the letters.

Features

  • Bold, italic, and bold italic
  • Script and bold script, Fraktur and bold Fraktur, and double-struck letters
  • Sans-serif in regular, bold, italic, and bold italic, and monospace
  • Circled, filled circles, squared, filled squares, and letters in parentheses
  • Fullwidth, small caps, and superscript letters
  • Upside-down text that you can read by turning the screen around
  • Strikethrough, slashed, underlined, and double-underlined text
  • Accented letters keep their accents in the letter styles

How it works

Each style replaces the letters A to Z, and in some styles the digits 0 to 9, with the matching Unicode character. A few letters were already in Unicode before the math alphabets were added, such as script โ„ฌ and double-struck โ„, so the tool uses those. Accented letters are split into a letter and an accent, the letter is styled, and the accent is kept on it. Strikethrough and underline styles add a combining line after every character, and upside-down text maps each character to one that looks like it turned over and then reverses the order.

Tips

  • Screen readers may read styled letters one by one, as math symbols, or not at all. Keep names, links, and other important information in plain text.
  • Styled text is not found by search in most apps, so people searching for your name or hashtag may not find it.
  • Some fonts, especially on older phones, have no glyphs for the less common styles and show empty boxes instead. Check the result on the device where people will see it.
  • The filled circle and square styles only have capital letters, so lowercase letters are shown as capitals.