Fancy text generator

How it works

Type once and every style is generated together, so you can pick by eye rather than clicking through a list. What follows is an explanation of what these actually are, because it changes where you should and should not use them.

These are characters, not formatting

Unicode contains separate characters for mathematical bold, italic, script, fraktur, double-struck and monospace letters — they exist for mathematical notation, where a bold X and an italic X mean different things. This tool substitutes those characters for ordinary ones. That is why the result survives copy and paste into places that strip formatting: the boldness is part of the character, not styling applied to it.

Where they break, and it is important

A screen reader will not read these as letters. Depending on the software, mathematical bold text is read character by character, announced as symbols, or skipped entirely — so a profile written in it can be unintelligible to a blind reader. Search engines generally do not match them to ordinary words, and some platforms strip or refuse them. Use them for decoration, never for anything that has to be read, found or understood.

Which styles are safest

Small caps, full width and spaced text degrade most gracefully. The mathematical alphabets are the most widely supported of the decorative ones. Squared and circled letters have the patchiest font coverage and often appear as empty boxes on other people's devices.

Strikethrough and underline

These are done with combining marks — invisible characters that attach to the one before. They work almost everywhere, though a few apps render the spacing oddly.