Small Text Generator

About this tool

This small text generator turns ordinary letters into Unicode look-alikes: small capitals, superscript (often called tiny text) and subscript, plus strikethrough and underline styles. Type once and all five versions update as you type, each with its own copy button, so you can paste the result into a bio, username, chat message or document. Conversion happens in your browser and nothing you type is uploaded.

How to use the small text generator

1. Type or paste your text into the box. A short sample is loaded so you can see each style.
2. Read the five outputs. They update as you type; Convert text runs the conversion again by hand.
3. Check the note under each style. It lists any characters in your text that have no equivalent in that style and were left unchanged, and any capitals that had to use a lowercase form.
4. Click the copy button next to the style you want and paste it wherever you need it.

These are Unicode characters, not fonts

Most apps do not let you pick a font for a profile or a post, but they do accept any character from Unicode, the standard that gives a number to every character in every major writing system. Unicode includes many letters that happen to look small. Small capitals such as ᴀ (U+1D00, LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL A) come from blocks built for phonetic transcription. Superscript letters such as ᵃ are modifier letters used in phonetics, and subscript letters such as ₐ exist for phonetic and scientific notation. Superscript and subscript digits are standard characters too, used for things like x² and H₂O.

This tool swaps each letter for the matching character from those sets. Because the result is made of characters rather than formatting, it survives copy and paste into places that strip bold or font choices. The strikethrough and underline styles work differently: they add a combining character after every letter, U+0336 (COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY) for strikethrough and U+0332 (COMBINING LOW LINE) for underline, which the font draws over or under the previous character.

Why some letters stay the same

Unicode was not designed as a complete set of small alphabets, so there are gaps:

• Small caps: there are no small-cap digits, so numbers stay as they are, and there is no small capital X in Unicode. A small capital Q (U+A7AF) was added only in Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and many fonts still lack it, so this tool leaves q and x as they are.
• Superscript: every lowercase letter except q has a superscript form in well-supported blocks. Many capitals have superscript capitals (ᴬ, ᴮ, ᴰ and so on), but C, F, Q, S, X, Y and Z do not, apart from a few very recent additions with poor font support, so those capitals use the lowercase superscript (ᶜ, ᶠ, ˢ, ˣ, ʸ, ᶻ) and Q is unchanged.
• Subscript: only 17 letters have subscript forms: a, e, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v and x. There are no subscript capitals, so capitals use the lowercase subscript where one exists. The letters b, c, d, f, g, q, w, y and z are kept as-is.

Spaces, punctuation and emoji are passed through unchanged in every style except strikethrough and underline, which mark every character.

Worked example

The sample text Tiny text for your bio, 2026 produces:

• Small caps: ᴛɪɴʏ ᴛᴇxᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙɪᴏ, 2026. The note under it reads No equivalent, kept as-is: x, 2, 0, 6, because there is no small capital x and no small-cap digits.
• Superscript: ᵀⁱⁿʸ ᵗᵉˣᵗ ᶠᵒʳ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵇⁱᵒ, ²⁰²⁶. Every letter and digit in the sample has a superscript form, and the capital T becomes the superscript capital ᵀ.
• Subscript: ₜᵢₙy ₜₑₓₜ fₒᵣ yₒᵤᵣ bᵢₒ, ₂₀₂₆. The note lists y, f and b as kept as-is, and says the capital T used the lowercase subscript ₜ.
• Strikethrough: T̶i̶n̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶b̶i̶o̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶6̶, with U+0336 after each of the 28 characters, spaces included, so the copied text is 56 characters long.

Where small text displays, and where it does not

These characters display on most modern phones, computers and social apps, because current system fonts include them. The catch is that every character needs a glyph in the font the reader's device is using. If a font has no glyph for a character, the reader sees an empty box or a fallback symbol instead, and the combining strokes in strikethrough and underline text can sit slightly off or look broken in some fonts. Always paste the result and check it on the platform before you rely on it, ideally on more than one device.

Accessibility and search caution

Screen readers do not read these characters the way they read normal letters. Depending on the screen reader and settings, they may skip them, spell them out one by one or announce a character name, so a styled word can become slow or impossible to follow. The University of Houston social media accessibility guidelines advise against replacing normal letters with decorative characters for this reason, and the disability charity Scope gives the same advice. Keep small text decorative, and never put essential information such as names, dates, links or instructions only in small text.

Search engines and site search may also not treat these characters as the ordinary letters they look like, so a styled word might not match a search for that word. Keep important keywords and anything people need to find in plain text.

Common mistakes

• Expecting a full alphabet in every style. Check the note under each output for letters that were kept unchanged.
• Using small text for a whole bio or post. Short accents read better and stay accessible.
• Assuming it looks the same everywhere. Test on the platform where it will appear.
• Using superscript letters for maths or chemistry in documents. A word processor's real superscript and subscript formatting is better there; the Unicode digits are fine for plain text.

Use cases

• Decorative accents in a profile bio, display name or gaming tag.
• Small-caps labels or headings in plain text places such as chats.
• Plain-text footnote markers and exponents like ¹ or x², and chemical formulas like H₂O.
• Struck-through text to show a correction or a joke in a message that has no formatting.

For other characters to copy, such as arrows, currency and maths symbols, see Special Characters. To change normal text to upper, lower or title case, use the Case Converter, and to check the length of a bio before you paste it, use the Word Counter.