Change the look of short text
Use bubble, cursive, Old English or upside-down converters for names and short accents. Keep important words available in plain letters.
Unicode text
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Convert, inspect and preview Unicode text in your browser. Choose a focused tool, keep your input on your device and copy the result when it looks right.
Choose the job you need to do
Short summary: Pick one tool. Enter a small sample. Check the result, then copy it. Always test the copied text in the app where you plan to use it.
These are real utilities, not thin copies of the symbol library. Each tool solves a different text problem and links to the guide that explains its limits. When you want to combine several of them into one finished line, the Symbol Maker assembles a letter style, a frame and an accent in a single step.
Inspect or convert a value
Reveal hidden code points or turn a whole number into Roman numerals before you paste it into a document.
Assemble a finished line
Use the Symbol Maker when the result needs a letter style, a frame and spacing together rather than one transformation.
Preview motion safely
Try a text loading sequence, pause it and respect reduced-motion settings before using it in an interface.
Start here
Symbol Maker
The tools below each solve one problem. The Symbol Maker combines them: choose a letter style, wrap it in a frame, set the spacing between words, and copy the finished line in one step. It also ships twelve ready-made designs you can take as they are.
- Seven letter styles, including the four converters listed below
- Ten frames and seven accent separators
- A plain-text version shown beside every result
All 11 Unicode tools
Open a tool to use it immediately and read its compatibility notes. Four convert letter shapes, four transform whole lines, and three inspect or convert values.
Bubble Text Converter
Turn ordinary letters and numbers into enclosed Unicode characters for short labels and profile text.
Enclosed alphanumerics have existed since the 1990s, so circled letters render widely — but they are separate characters from the letters they imitate, which means search will not match them. Keep a plain-text version of anything that needs to be findable.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Bubble Text Converter →Cursive Text Converter
Create script-style Unicode text while keeping a plain-text version for names, search and accessibility.
Script letters come from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, where they denote variables in equations. Coverage is good on desktop and patchier on older phones, and a screen reader may announce each one by its mathematical name.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Cursive Text Converter →Old English Text Converter
Build Fraktur-style text from Unicode mathematical letters and learn where fallback characters are used.
Fraktur styling draws on the same mathematical block. A few letters have no Fraktur form and fall back to their letterlike equivalents, so a converted word can mix two styles — check the result before publishing it.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Old English Text Converter →Upside-Down Text Converter
Reverse and substitute letters to make playful upside-down text, then test the result in its final app.
Inverted text works by substituting unrelated characters that happen to look like rotated letters, drawn from Latin extensions and IPA. The illusion depends on the reading order being reversed too, so copy the whole string rather than part of it.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Upside-Down Text Converter →Small Text Generator
Turn ordinary letters into superscript, subscript and small-capital characters for compact labels.
Coverage is uneven by design: Unicode never encoded a superscript q or a small-capital X, so those letters fall back to their normal form. Expect a mixed-height result on some words.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Small Text Generator →Strikethrough Generator
Draw a line through or under text using combining overlay marks that travel with the characters.
The line is a separate combining character after each letter, so the text stays selectable and searchable. Some apps render the overlay slightly offset, and a few strip combining marks entirely on paste.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Strikethrough Generator →Zalgo Text Generator
Stack combining diacritics above and below each letter for the glitched, overflowing zalgo effect.
Zalgo text overflows its line box, so it can cover neighbouring content. Many platforms strip or truncate it, and screen readers announce every mark, which makes it unsuitable anywhere the words matter.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Zalgo Text Generator →Mirror Text Generator
Reverse a word and substitute mirrored lookalike characters so it reads backwards.
This is character substitution rather than a true reflection, so letters without a mirrored counterpart stay as they are. The result is text, not an image, and it will not mirror again if pasted into a right-to-left context.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Mirror Text Generator →Invisible Character Inspector
Reveal zero-width spaces, joiners and direction marks without changing the text you paste into the inspector.
Zero-width and directional format characters are legitimate typographic tools, and also the easiest thing to carry accidentally. The inspector lists every hidden code point in pasted text without altering it, which is worth doing before text goes into a password field or a published page.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Invisible Character Inspector →Roman Numeral Converter
Convert whole numbers from 1 to 3,999 into ordinary Latin-letter Roman numerals for broad compatibility.
Unicode encodes precomposed numerals for compatibility with older East Asian character sets. For ordinary writing the converter returns plain Latin letters, which sort, search and render far more reliably than the single-character forms.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Roman Numeral Converter →Loading Animation Preview
Preview text-only loading frames, pause the motion and copy the sequence that fits your interface.
Text spinners are a sequence of frames swapped on a timer, not an animation format. Preview the cadence here, and note that the preview honours a reduced-motion preference — anything you build from it should do the same.
Learn the background in the supporting Unicode guide.
Open Loading Animation Preview →When not to use these tools
Every tool here has a boundary. Knowing it saves you a broken profile or a rejected form.
Do not style a login or a handle
Converted letters are different characters. A username or password field will often reject them, and people cannot type them from memory.
Do not use styled text for anything searchable
A name written in cursive or Fraktur will not match a search for the same name in plain letters. Keep the searchable version in ordinary text.
Do not hide characters in text you share
The inspector exists to find invisible characters, not to plant them. Using them to dodge a filter or a length limit is what makes them a problem.
How these tools handle your text
Your input stays in the browser
The converters and inspectors run with browser-side code. Ordinary text is not submitted to a conversion account or stored as a profile.
The result is still Unicode text
Styled letters and symbols are characters, not screenshots. Fonts and apps can draw them differently, so test the final destination.
Plain words still matter
Decoration should not hide a name, instruction or status. Read how symbols affect accessibility and how to copy unfamiliar text safely.
Quick checks before you publish
- Keep a plain-text copy of important names and instructions.
- Test the result on both a phone and a desktop device.
- Remove hidden characters that do not serve a clear purpose.