Italic Text Generator

Unicode includes a set of italic letters meant for writing variables in equations. This generator replaces each basic Latin letter with its counterpart from that set, so a becomes 𝑎 (U+1D44E). The result is plain text that looks italic in most fonts, which is why it keeps its slant in places with no formatting options, such as a bio, a caption or a comment.

Type Hello World 2026 and you get 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 2026.

Two quirks of the italic set show up in the output:

• No italic digits. Unicode's maths sets include bold digits but not italic ones, so numbers are left as they are. That is why 2026 above stays upright. If a slanted number matters, write it out as a word.
• The letter h. The italic block has a gap where h should be, because an italic h already existed elsewhere in Unicode as the Planck constant symbol, ℎ (U+210E). The generator uses that character, so the hitchhiker becomes 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎℎ𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑟. In some fonts this h is drawn from a different design and looks a little out of line with its neighbours.

Accented and non-Latin letters are also left alone, so Café turns into 𝐶𝑎𝑓é with an upright é at the end.

Italic letters from the maths block are separate characters, and that has side effects worth knowing:

• A screen reader may skip them or read them out character by character, so don't put the only copy of important information in italics.
• People searching a page or feed for the plain word may not find the italic version.
• A device without a font that covers these characters shows blank boxes.
• Each italic letter except h counts as 2 in the “characters out” total under the box, so hello comes out as 9, not 5.

Italics work well for a short aside, a book or film title in a caption, or a quoted phrase. They work badly for long passages, which become hard to read on small screens.