Free Small Text Generator

What Is a Small Text Generator?

Quick answer: A small text generator swaps each letter you type for a tiny lookalike character from Unicode. The result is ordinary text you can copy and paste, not a smaller font size. Ours makes Small Text and Small Caps. Try it with your own text in the tool above.

The tool has six styles. Small Text and Small Caps are the small ones, which makes it a small caps generator too, and Upside Down, Bold, Bubble and Backwards are decorative swaps. There is no subscript style.

How to Make Small Text (Tiny Letters You Can Copy and Paste)

Five steps, and the third one matters most: typing alone converts nothing.

1. Type or paste your text. Click the first box ("Write some text here ..."). A run takes up to 50 words, counted as words separated by spaces, and a free account raises that to 100.
2. Pick a style. Small Text gives raised letters like ʰᵉˡˡᵒ and flattens capitals. Small Caps gives capital shapes at lowercase height, like Hᴇʟʟᴏ, and keeps typed capitals full size.
3. Press Generate. The page reloads, the result lands in the second box, and your style stays selected.
4. Copy or save the result. Press Copy to Clipboard, or press Save as TXT to download small-text-generator.txt as UTF-8. Both appear after the first result.
5. Check it where you will use it. Paste one short line into the real field first, because some fields rewrite these characters.

Gotcha: Click Small Caps after a result and nothing changes until you press Generate again. Convert a test line in the tool above.

See What Each Style Does to the Same Sentence

Every row below is real output from this small text generator for Hello World 123, so copy the results rather than retyping them.

Upside Down and Backwards keep the original character order, so the line is not reversed. For true reversal, use the Reverse Text Generator. Then type your own sentence into the tool.

Small Text, Superscript, Subscript and Small Caps: What Is the Difference?

Four names get mixed up, and subscript is the one we lack.

• Superscript. Sits above the baseline, as in x² or the st of an ordinal like 1st.
• Subscript. Sits below the baseline, as in the 2 of H₂O.
• Small caps. Capital letters at lowercase height, a typographic style.
• Tiny text. A common name for any of the three, here meaning Unicode characters, not a font.

Small Text works as a superscript generator, and Unicode mostly files its letters as modifier letters (MODIFIER LETTER SMALL A, for example). Small Caps makes small capitals. With no subscript style, H2O through Small Text comes out as ʰ²ᵒ, raised and wrong for a chemical formula.

Raised and lowered letters were encoded mainly for phonetic notation, so the sets are uneven, as the Unicode subscripts and superscripts table shows. The Unicode small capitals reference adds that small capitals are deprecated as a stand-in for real small cap formatting, so our Small Caps style is a workaround.

ASCII is a 128 character set with no raised or small capital letters, so this tool uses Unicode. For ASCII codes, try the Text to ASCII converter.

Which Letters and Symbols Convert (and Which Stay Normal Size)

Two styles have quirks worth a table, punctuation included.

Each style is a lookup table, and characters with no entry are copied as typed: accented letters, other alphabets, emoji. No message says what was skipped. In Small Text, café naïve 日本語 becomes ᶜᵃᶠé ⁿᵃïᵛᵉ 日本語.

The missing letters in Small Caps are partly our doing. Unicode defines small capitals for s and q, which makes leaving them full size a hole in our character mapping. Only x has none anywhere.

Where to Use Tiny Text and Where It Breaks

Tiny letters only help if the string survives the paste.

• Good fits. Display names, bio lines, captions, comments and chat messages that accept special characters, plus exponent or footnote marks.
• What we verified. In one Chromium test the clipboard held exactly the converted string and the TXT file was plain UTF-8. Converted characters take 2 to 4 bytes instead of 1 (ʰ is 2, ᵃ is 3, 𝐇 is 4), so a 31 character Small Text line came to 68 bytes.
• Where it breaks. Some fields refuse or rewrite special characters, especially username and gamer tag fields. With no glyph, a font draws an empty box unless font fallback borrows one elsewhere. Unicode normalization (NFKC), a cleanup step some software applies, folds most Small Text, Bold and Bubble characters back to plain letters and leaves the Small Caps letters alone. Backwards and Upside Down borrow right to left characters, so nearby digits can shift.

Limits to Know Before You Paste

Four limits come with the territory, and the last is ours.

• Screen readers. A screen reader may read the characters by name, spell them out or skip them, and we have tested none. For accessibility, keep contact details, prices and instructions in normal text.
• Search. A search for the plain word may not find converted text. Keep titles, headings and URLs in normal text, and check your title tag with the meta tag analyzer.
• Bold is a mathematical alphabet. Per the Unicode Standard, chapter 22, characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block "should not be used to represent styling of nonmathematical text." Keep Bold to a few words. For superscripts the Standard prefers markup in rich text, so tiny letters in plain text are a workaround.
• Readability. Our opinion, not a Unicode rule: tiny letters are hard to read, so keep a caption to a line or two.
• Tool limits. The word limit is 50 per run, or 100 with a free account, and longer text is refused, not trimmed. You get one style at a time.

How Your Text Is Processed

It is free, with nothing to install. You can convert 50 words per run without an account, or 100 with a free one.

This small text converter runs on our server, not in the page. Pressing Generate sends your text to us and reloads the page with the result. Do not paste anything confidential.

Related Free Text Tools

A tiny text generator keeps your typos, so edit first and convert last.

• Case Converter: change case first, because Small Text drops it.
• Online Text Editor: tidy the text before you convert.
• Text to Binary: see a converted line's character encoding as UTF-8 bytes.
• all free text tools: the full category.