Mini Stacked Text Generator

Three mini styles

Mini-me places a tiny copy of a letter directly above it: “Hello” becomes Hͪeͤlloͦ. Mini stacked goes further and lifts every second letter onto the one before it, so the word gets shorter: “Hello there” turns into Hͤllo thͤrͤ. Mini trail takes a different route and follows each letter with its superscript twin: Hᴴiⁱ.

The first two rely on combining marks, characters that attach to the previous letter instead of taking up their own space. Unicode has combining versions of only thirteen letters: a, c, d, e, h, i, m, o, r, t, u, v and x. Letters outside that set stay plain in Mini-me, and Mini stacked never lifts them.

What to expect when you paste

Every app draws combining marks a little differently. In one the tiny letters sit neatly on top, in another they drift sideways or bump into the line above. Preview your text where you plan to post it before you commit.

Mini stacked hides letters in plain sight: the lifted letters are still in the text, just very small, so the word is harder to read and search tools will not match it. Accented letters are skipped by Mini stacked, which means Vietnamese or French words often come out almost unchanged. Mini-me does work with accents, but a tiny letter plus a tone mark on one character can get crowded. Mini trail, built from ordinary superscript characters, is the most predictable of the three.

Related styles

If you want small letters in a straight line, the tiny text page has superscript and subscript. For shrunken capitals that stay easy to read, try small caps.

Frequently asked questions