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Bubble Text Generator

Enclose your letters and digits in circles for a bubble look you can paste anywhere.

What this tool does

Enclose your letters and digits in circles for a bubble look you can paste anywhere. You fill in these fields: Text. It shows circled text, characters changed, and characters left as typed.

Inputs

  • Text: Longer text, up to 5000 characters. Any character the style has no form for is kept as typed.

How to use

  1. Type the text.
  2. Read the result: circled text, characters changed, and characters left as typed. It appears once every required field has a valid value.
  3. Use the copy button to copy the text.

Worked examples

Example 1. Inputs:

  • Text: "Abc 10"

Results:

  • Characters changed: 5
  • Characters left as typed: 1

How this is worked out: Enclosed Alphanumerics: circled A is U+24B6, circled a is U+24D0, circled 1 to 9 start at U+2460, circled 0 is U+24EA. A -> U+24B6; b = a + 1 -> U+24D1; c = a + 2 -> U+24D2; 1 -> U+2460; 0 -> U+24EA. The space is kept. 5 circled, 1 kept.

Example 2. Inputs:

  • Text: "Zz90"

Results:

  • Characters changed: 4
  • Characters left as typed: 0

How this is worked out: Last of each range: Z = U+24B6 + 25 = U+24CF, z = U+24D0 + 25 = the last circled small letter (CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER Z, one place before the circled zero), 9 = U+2460 + 8 = U+2468, 0 -> U+24EA. All 4 characters circled.

Example 3. Inputs:

  • Text: "hi, 5!"

Results:

  • Characters changed: 3
  • Characters left as typed: 3

How this is worked out: h = a + 7 -> U+24D7, i = a + 8 -> U+24D8, 5 = U+2460 + 4 -> U+2464. The comma, space and exclamation mark have no circled form: 3 kept. 3 circled.

Example 4. Inputs:

  • Text: "é X"

Results:

  • Characters changed: 1
  • Characters left as typed: 2

How this is worked out: The text is two lines: an accented e on the first and X on the second. The accented e (one character, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE) and the line break have no circled form: 2 kept. X = U+24B6 + 23 -> U+24CD. 1 circled.

Where this comes from

Restyle text with look-alike Unicode letters. Each character the chosen style has a Unicode form for is replaced by that form. Every other character is kept as typed. Two counts are returned: characters changed and characters kept. Source: The Unicode Standard code charts: Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (U+1D400 block), Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00 block), Enclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460 block), and the small capital letters of the IPA Extensions, Phonetic Extensions and Latin Extended-D blocks.

Limitations

  • Only characters the style has a Unicode form for are changed. Everything else, including accented letters, other alphabets and emoji, is kept as typed.
  • The two counts are of Unicode characters, so an emoji built from several joined characters, or a letter typed with a separate accent mark, counts as more than one.
  • Some apps, fonts and screen readers do not handle these characters well, so avoid them for anything that must be accessible or searchable.
  • Only the open circle style is produced. Filled (inverse) circles are not.
  • Text longer than 5,000 characters is not accepted.

FAQs

Q: Are these real fonts?
A: No. Each styled character is a separate Unicode character that looks like a styled letter, so the look stays when you copy and paste the text. No formatting is attached to it.
Q: Why did some characters stay as typed?
A: A style has a styled form for only some characters. Any character it has none for, such as an accented letter, an emoji or a line break, is copied as typed. The two counts show how many characters were changed and how many were kept.
Q: Are line breaks kept?
A: Yes. A line break is copied exactly as you typed it and counts as a character left as typed.
Q: Will it display everywhere?
A: Most current phones and computers show these characters. Some apps and older fonts show empty boxes instead, and a font may draw them differently from another.
Q: Will screen readers and search understand it?
A: Often not. Screen readers may read the styled characters out one symbol at a time, and search engines may not match them to the plain words, so avoid them for anything people need to hear or find.
Q: Can I turn the styled text back into plain text?
A: Not with this tool. Each styled character is a different Unicode character from the plain one, so you would need to type the plain text again.
Q: Which characters does the circled style change?
A: The letters A to Z, a to z and the digits 0 to 9. Spaces, punctuation, accented letters and emoji are copied as typed.
Q: Are upper and lower case different in the circled style?
A: Yes. Capital letters become capital circled letters and lower case letters become lower case circled letters.

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