Easter font generator

Type a name or a message and copy the result. Letters switches between plain, cursive, bold cursive and bubble letters. Symbols go puts the symbols either side of the line, three each side, between words or between every letter. Symbol picks which: a chick, a bunny, an egg, a tulip, a blossom, a florette, a cross, or the mix, which takes a chick, a tulip, an egg and a bunny in turn.

The letters are real Unicode characters, not an image, so they paste into a card, a caption, a bio or a message and keep their shape. Swap the boxes to turn Easter text back into plain letters.

Write each clue in a code and hide it with an egg, so finding one egg leads to the next. Pigpen is easy to paint on a shell, and children can decode it with the key in front of them. Numbers are easier still: A1Z26 turns EGG into 5-7-7.

For older hunters, print a Caesar cipher wheel and give them the shift, or tap the last clue out in Morse code. The escape room puzzle maker turns a whole set of clues into one printable game.

In 2027, Easter Sunday is on 28 March in the Western churches and on 2 May in the Orthodox churches. In 2028 both fall on the same day, 16 April.

The date moves because it follows the moon. Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the church's full moon on or after 21 March. That puts Western Easter somewhere between 22 March and 25 April. Orthodox churches work it out on the older Julian calendar, so their Easter is often later.

The Easter bunny began as a hare, the Osterhase, among German Lutherans. In the late 1600s a German physician, Georg Franck von Franckenau, wrote about it in De ovis paschalibus, "About Easter eggs". In the story, the hare judged whether children had been good and brought coloured eggs to those who had.

German immigrants took the hare to Pennsylvania in the 18th century. Their children made nests in their caps and bonnets for it to leave eggs in. Chocolate eggs came later: in 1725 the widow Giambone started making them in Turin.