Who we are
About italictextgenerator.net
italictextgenerator.net does one thing carefully: it converts your text into Unicode characters drawn in italic, and it tells you the truth about what that costs.
Why we built it
Every social platform removed formatting from its text fields, and then the internet invented a workaround: swap each letter for a different Unicode character that happens to be drawn in the shape you wanted. It works, it is free, and it has been quietly powering millions of profile bios for over a decade.
The tools that do it, though, mostly hide how it works. They promise "fonts" that are not fonts, they list styles without telling you which letters are missing, and they say nothing about what a screen reader will do with the result. We thought a generator could be beautiful and honest at the same time.
How the converter is built
The whole thing runs in your browser. There is no API, no queue, no server that ever sees your text. Each letter is looked up in a mapping table built from the Unicode standard, including the twenty-four exceptions that live outside the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block and break the simple arithmetic every naive implementation relies on.
The coverage figures on the home page are not marketing numbers. They are counted from those same tables at build time, which means the reference chart cannot drift away from what the tool actually does. When we add a style, the chart updates itself.
What we will not do
- We will not log, store or transmit anything you type.
- We will not call these styles "fonts" when they are character substitutions.
- We will not pretend styled Unicode is accessible. It is decorative, we say so on the home page, and we explain where it costs you something.
- We will not pad a style list with duplicates to claim a bigger number.
Our editorial rules
The guides on this site are written by people who use these platforms daily. When we say a style breaks a hashtag or a search index, we have checked it. When behaviour differs between devices (and with Unicode it usually does) we say which device we tested on rather than flattening it into a single confident sentence.
We update guides when a platform changes, and we date every one of them so you can judge how fresh the advice is.
Talk to us
Corrections are genuinely welcome, particularly from people who use screen readers or who work in scripts we do not. Write to hello@italictextgenerator.net or use thecontact page.