Fancy text you can paste anywhere

Why it works without a font

Bios, usernames and posts on most apps cannot change their font. Fancy text gets around that with characters Unicode already has: its mathematical alphabets include complete sets of letters in bold, italic, script, gothic (fraktur), double-struck, sans-serif and typewriter shapes, and other blocks hold circled, squared, full-width and small capital letters. Each fancy letter is a character of its own, so wherever Unicode text can go, the style goes with it.

The styles in Text Studio: Bold, Italic, Bold italic, Sans bold, Sans italic, Sans bold italic, Script, Bold script, Gothic, Bold gothic, Double-struck, Typewriter, Small capitals, Tiny, Circled, Circled, dark, Squared, Squared, dark, Full width, Upside down, Struck through, Underlined and Slashed.

What to know before you use it

• Screen readers struggle. A screen reader may spell 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 letter by letter or read each one as a mathematical symbol, which is tiring for blind and low-vision readers. Keep fancy letters to a name or a short heading, never a whole post.
• Search does not find it. Fancy letters are different characters from plain ones, so a search for your name in plain letters will not match them.
• Not every letter has every style. Unicode's styled alphabets cover A to Z and, in some styles, the digits. Accented letters keep their accent as a separate mark over the styled letter, and characters with no styled version stay as they are.
• Some devices draw them as boxes. Older phones and some fonts lack these characters. The dark squared letters may also show as emoji on some systems.

A few that need explaining

Upside down flips each letter and reverses their order, so the text reads correctly when the screen is turned around. Tiny uses superscript letters; q has none that fonts widely show, so it stays a plain q. Struck through, Underlined and Slashed add a combining line to every character, the one way to get a crossed-out effect in apps that have no strikethrough button.

For ordinary capital letters or title case, use Case, which changes the letters themselves rather than swapping them for look-alikes.