Small Text Converter
Small caps, superscript, subscript and bubble letters. Type once, copy the one you want.
Type something above to see it in every style.
The four small styles, and what each is for
| Style | Reads as | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Small caps | Capital shapes at lower-case height | Bios and headings; the most readable of the four |
| Superscript | Raised, much smaller | Footnote marks, a short flourish |
| Subscript | Lowered, much smaller | Chemical-style notation; the most incomplete alphabet |
| Circled | Each letter inside a ring | Lists and separators rather than sentences |
These alphabets are incomplete, and it shows
Unicode never encoded these as full alphabets, because they were added for phonetic and mathematical notation rather than for styling text. Small caps has no character for x, and uses a hooked form for q. Superscript is missing q. Subscript is the worst affected: it has no b, c, d, f, g, q, w, y or z at all.
Where a character does not exist, the ordinary letter is left in place rather than being swapped for something that only vaguely resembles it. That means a word can come out with one letter at full height, which looks odd but is honest. Small caps is the style to choose when you need the whole line to be consistent.
How it works, and the one catch
These styles are not fonts. Each one is a separate block of real Unicode characters, so the styled letters travel with the text itself rather than depending on formatting the destination has to support. That is why a copied result keeps its look in a profile, a message or a post that offers no formatting controls at all.
The catch is worth knowing before you use it anywhere important. A screen reader announces the underlying code points rather than the letters you meant, so bold written in styled characters can be read out as a string of symbol names or skipped entirely. Search engines index them poorly for the same reason. Use these for a display name, a bio flourish or a post that wants to stand out, and keep ordinary letters for anything a person needs to read straight through or a search engine needs to understand.
Support varies by device. Almost everything renders on current desktop and mobile systems, but older phones and some apps substitute a box for a character they do not carry. The styles nearest the top of the list are the most widely supported, so when a result matters, prefer those and check it once on the platform you are posting to.
Questions
Why is one letter in my text still full size?
These alphabets are incomplete. Small caps has no x, superscript has no q, and subscript is missing nine letters. Where the character does not exist, the ordinary letter is kept rather than substituting something that does not match.
Which small style is the most readable?
Small caps, comfortably. It keeps letter shapes recognisable at close to normal height, whereas superscript and subscript are drawn much smaller and get hard to read in more than a few words.
Can I use small caps in a username?
Usually in a display name, though many platforms restrict which characters a handle itself may contain. Test it before relying on it.
Does small text actually take less space?
Not in characters, only visually. Each styled character still counts as one character, and in some blocks as more than one byte, so a length limit is reached at about the same point.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. Everything runs inside your browser and this tool has no backend, so nothing you type is transmitted, logged or stored.
Related: Wide Text Converter for the opposite effect and the full Unicode Text Converter. Everything else is on the all tools page.
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