Italic Text Generator

Unicode includes complete italic alphabets as separate characters, made so mathematicians can write slanted variables. The generator swaps each of your letters for its italic twin, so you get plain text that looks italic and keeps its slant when pasted into a bio, a comment or a username.

Three italic styles come first: serif italic, which looks like a book; italic sans, closer to the default text in most apps; and bold italic, for something stronger.

Nothing on this page changes a font. Each style swaps your letters for different characters that happen to look like styled letters: 𝐁 is “mathematical bold capital B”, a separate character from B, made so that equations can tell different kinds of variable apart. That is why the text keeps its style when you paste it somewhere that has no formatting, such as a social media bio.

It also has real costs, and it is fairer to say so:

• Screen readers may not read it. Some skip the characters altogether, and others announce each one, such as “mathematical bold capital B”, so a short phrase becomes a long string of symbol names. Upside-down and enclosed letters are often read as nonsense.
• Search may not find it. A search for “sale” will not always match 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞, so styled names and keywords can be harder to find on the platforms that use them.
• Some devices show boxes. Older phones and some fonts lack these characters and show an empty box or a question mark instead.

So use it for decoration, not information: a word or two of emphasis, a name, a heading in a bio. Never style a whole post, a link, a price, a date or anything a reader must understand. Where real formatting is available, such as in a document, an email or a web page, use the bold and italic buttons instead. They look the same and work for everyone.