Weird Text Generator

Where weird letters come from

Weird text swaps each letter for a character from another writing system that looks a bit like it. Squiggle borrows from Armenian, like օ (U+0585 ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER OH), and from the phonetic alphabet; Tribal uses Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, like ᗩ (U+15E9 CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER PO); Ethiopic Style uses the Ethiopic script, like ል (U+120D ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE LE).

Other styles keep your letters and add marks: Ḧëäv̈ÿ M̈ëẗäl̈ puts two dots on every letter and Z͛i͛g͛z͛a͛g͛ adds a zigzag on top.

Strange to everyone else, too

Someone who reads Armenian or Amharic sees a jumble of their own letters, and search engines don't match the words. Weird text works best for a name or a few words, not whole messages.

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.