Free generator, copy and paste
Fancy text to normal text one paste, plain letters
Bold, script, bubble, gothic and wide โfontsโ from Instagram or LinkedIn are really special characters. Paste them here and get ordinary letters back.
- plain text
Updated ยท strikethroughtext.online
Why fancy text isnโt really a font
A font changes how a letter is drawn. These styles donโt do that: they swap each letter for a different character that happens to look like a styled letter. Unicode includes complete bold, italic, script, fraktur and double-struck alphabets for mathematicians, who need ๐ฑ and ๐ฅ to mean different things in a formula. Copy-and-paste font sites borrow those alphabets for decoration.
Thatโs why the style survives being pasted into an Instagram bio, and also why it causes trouble afterwards. The text canโt be searched, is often read aloud badly by screen readers, and wonโt take a real font when you paste it into a document.
What gets converted
| Style | Example | Unicode block |
|---|---|---|
| Bold, italic, bold italic | ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ผ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols |
| Script, fraktur, double-struck | ๐ฎ๐ธ๐๐พ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ ๐ป๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ | the same, plus Letterlike Symbols for gaps like โฌ and โญ |
| Sans and monospace | ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐๐๐ | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols |
| Bubble and squared | โโคโโโโ ๐ ๐ ค๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ด | Enclosed Alphanumerics and its supplement |
| Wide (vaporwave) | ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ ใ๏ฝ๏ฝ ๏ฝ๏ฝ | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| Small caps, superscript | ๊ฑแดแดสส แถแตแตหข | IPA and phonetic extensions |
| Emoji letters | ๐ญ ๐ฎ | Regional indicator symbols |
| Lines and glitch | sฬถtฬถrฬถuฬถcฬถkฬถ uฬฒnฬฒdฬฒeฬฒrฬฒ zฬทฬขaฬธlฬถgฬตoฬถ | Combining marks |
Filled bubble and squared letters only exist as capitals in Unicode, so ๐ ๐ ค๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ comes back as BUBBLE. Everything else keeps its case.
What it leaves alone
Normalisation is a blunt tool. Applied to a whole text it also rewrites characters you probably want to keep: ยฝ becomes 1โ2, โข becomes TM, the ligature ๏ฌ splits into f and i, and ยฒ turns into a plain 2. This converter only touches characters from the blocks above, so prices, trademarks, footnote numbers and accents like รฉ pass through unchanged.
Two exceptions are worth knowing. Superscript and subscript letters are converted, because theyโre one of the styles this site makes, so xยฒ comes back as x2. And look-alike letters from other alphabets (Cyrillic ะฐ, Greek ฮฟ) are left as they are, because theyโre real letters in real languages.
When you need it
- Quoting a post. You want to paste someoneโs ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ LinkedIn headline into a report or an email without the maths characters.
- Cleaning a bio or a display name so it can be searched, sorted or put in a spreadsheet.
- Accessibility. Swap styled text for plain before publishing, so screen readers read words instead of โmathematical bold capital Bโ.
- Fixing a document. Text pasted from social media wonโt take your heading font until itโs plain again.
Going the other way
This site makes several of these styles, each with honest notes about where they work: small caps, superscript, strikethrough and zalgo. For glitch text only, remove zalgo text explains how accents survive the cleanup.
Questions people ask
Why canโt I search or select fancy text like normal text?
Because it isnโt normal text in a different font. ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ is made of characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which computers treat as maths symbols, not as the letters B, o, l, d. Search boxes, spell checkers and screen readers see symbols, so they donโt match.
Which styles can this convert?
Bold, italic and bold italic in serif and sans, script and bold script, fraktur (gothic), double-struck, monospace, bubble letters filled and outlined, squared and negative squared letters, parenthesized letters, fullwidth (vaporwave) text, regional-indicator emoji letters, small caps, superscript, subscript, plus strikethrough, underline, slash and zalgo marks.
How do I turn LinkedIn or Instagram bold text back to plain text?
Copy the post text, paste it into the box above, and copy the plain result. LinkedIn and Instagram have no real bold, so the bold you see in posts is always these special characters, and this converts them.
Why doesnโt small caps or upside-down text convert in other tools?
Most converters lean on Unicode normalisation (NFKC), which knows that ๐ is an a but has no rule for small caps like แด, which are separate phonetic letters. This tool adds its own tables for small caps, superscript and the filled bubble letters. Upside-down text is still not converted here.
Will it change fractions, โข or ligatures in my text?
No. Plain normalisation would turn ยฝ into 1โ2, โข into TM and ๏ฌ into fi. This tool only converts characters from the fancy-letter blocks, so the rest of your text comes out exactly as it went in.