Why Use a Reverse Font Generator?
Have you ever come across a username, social media post, or message written in aπ»πΆππΈπ, πππππππππ, or even πππππ font and wondered what it actually says? Or perhaps you've tried to copy and paste it, only to find that it doesn't work correctly? That's where a reverse font generator comes in handy.
This tool strips away all the special Unicode characters and diacritics, converting the stylized text back into its original, plain text form.
Common Use Cases:
- Readability: Some fancy fonts are difficult to read. Quickly convert them to plain text to understand the message.
- Compatibility: Many platforms or applications don't support special Unicode characters. Use this tool to clean up text before pasting it into a form, document, or search bar.
- Character Counting: Fancy fonts can be misleading. A single stylized character might actually be made up of multiple Unicode points. Reverting to plain text gives you an accurate character count.
- Data Cleaning: If you're working with user-generated content, this tool can help you normalize text data by removing stylistic formatting.
How Does It Work?
"Fancy fonts" aren't actually fonts in the traditional sense. They are sequences of Unicode characters that look like stylized letters. For example, the bold letter 'π' is a different character from the standard 'A'.
Our Reverse Font Generator works by maintaining a comprehensive map of these special characters and their corresponding plain text equivalents. When you paste your fancy text into the input box, the tool performs two main actions:
- Removes Combining Characters: It first strips away all "combining diacritical marks." These are the glitchy "zalgo" effects that are added on top of or below base letters.
- Substitutes Characters: It then iterates through the remaining characters, replacing each fancy Unicode character with its standard, plain text counterpart based on our extensive reverse map.
The result is a clean, readable, and universally compatible version of your original text.
Supported Font Styles
This tool can reverse most of the common Unicode font styles, including:
- Bold
- Italic
- Bold Italic
- Monospace
- Sans Serif
- Sans Serif Bold
- Sans Serif Italic
- Sans Serif Bold Italic
- Small Caps
- Full Width
- Script
- Bold Script
- Cursive
- Fraktur
- Bold Fraktur
- Old English
- Old Italic
- Gothic
- Runic
- Double Struck
- Circled
- Negative Circled
- Squared
- Negative Squared
- Boxed
- Currency
- Faux Cyrillic
- Parenthesized
- Double Parenthesized
- Double Angle Bracketed
- Heart Text
- Star Text
- Diamond Text
- Modifier Letters
- Horizontal Flip
- Upside Down
- Zalgo (Full)
- Zalgo (Top)
- Zalgo (Middle)
- Zalgo (Bottom)