Unstyle Text: Turn Fancy Letters Back to Plain

What it can undo

Fancy text is made of special Unicode characters, so pasting it into a search box, a form or a document often goes wrong: the words are not found, the form rejects them, or a screen reader spells them out. This tool maps those characters back to the letters they imitate. It handles the math-style alphabets (bold, italic, script, gothic, double-struck, monospace and sans serif), bubble and square letters, small caps, superscript and subscript letters, and fullwidth vaporwave text.

It also reverses the look-alike scripts used on this site, Cherokee, Canadian syllabics, Vai, Bamum and cuneiform, and removes marks that sit on letters: strikethrough, slashes, underlines, lightning bolts, tiny faces, diamonds and do-not-enter signs. Mixed input is fine, so a line that combines several styles comes back in one pass.

What stays as it is

Some styles cannot be reversed. Upside-down text uses many characters that are ordinary letters in other alphabets, East Asian look-alikes are real CJK characters, and classified blocks hold no information about the letters they replaced. Emoji added around or between words, such as claps, hearts, air quotes and sparkles, are left in place for you to delete.

Real text in other scripts is protected on purpose. Accented letters, Greek, and Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters pass through untouched, so “Café Ωmega 東京” stays exactly the same. That is also why the Greek Λ, Ξ and Σ in some vaporwave styles remain.

Case and accents

Letter styles that kept your accents give them back: 𝐓𝐢𝐞̂́𝐧𝐠 𝐕𝐢𝐞̣̂𝐭 returns as Tiếng Việt. Shape styles drop accents when the text is created, so a bubble version, Ⓣⓘⓔⓝⓖ Ⓥⓘⓔⓣ, returns as Tieng Viet; those marks are gone for good. Squares and look-alike scripts have no lowercase, so they come back in capitals. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you paste is sent anywhere. To style the result again, head back to the text generator.

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