Japanese Font Generator

Japanese characters, not Japanese words

Each English letter is swapped for a Japanese character that happens to look like it: A becomes ﾑ (U+FF91 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU), N becomes 刀 (U+5200 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5200) and R becomes 尺 (U+5C3A CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3A). To someone who doesn't read Japanese the result looks Japanese; to someone who does, it's a row of unrelated characters, not words.

To have your name really written in Japanese, it has to be put into katakana by someone who knows the language. This tool doesn't translate.

Three Japanese looks

• Japanese Style (丂ｲﾘﾚ乇) uses katakana, hiragana and kanji.
• Asian Style (丂ㄒㄚㄥ乇) mixes Chinese characters with letters of other alphabets.
• Wide (Ｗｉｄｅ) uses fullwidth letters, made so Latin letters fit the even grid of Chinese and Japanese text.

Japanese brackets

Japanese has its own brackets. The corner brackets 「 (U+300C LEFT CORNER BRACKET) and 」 (U+300D RIGHT CORNER BRACKET) work as quotation marks, and the black lenticular brackets 【 (U+3010 LEFT BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET) and 】 (U+3011 RIGHT BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET) often mark headings and labels. Corner Letters puts every letter in its own corner brackets: 「n」「a」「m」「e」.

Before you paste

It's different text, not just a different look. To a computer, 𝒽ℯ𝓁𝓁ℴ is not the word hello. Keep the words people search for (your name, your shop, your username) in plain letters.

Screen readers may stumble. They can announce each styled letter by its Unicode name (“mathematical bold capital H”) or skip it, which makes the text hard to follow for people who rely on them. Use styles for a few words, not for whole paragraphs.

It can count double. Many styled letters (all the cursive, bold, italic and gothic ones) live outside the first 65,536 Unicode characters, so they take two UTF-16 code units. Web forms that limit length with the HTML maxlength attribute count those units, and X counts these letters as two characters each toward its 280-character limit.