- Leetspeak: open the full converter
- SpongeBob: open the full converter
- Pig Latin: open the full converter
- Keypad presses: open the full converter
- Enchanting table: open the full converter
- Wingdings: open the full converter
Six of the 13 tools here at once. See all 13, or click one to open it with your text.
Every fun text tool
13 tools in 3 groups
- DTMF tone generatorhellobecomes43556Hear the tones a phone keypad makes for any number.
- What does my phone number spell?hellobecomes43556The words hidden in a phone number, like 1-800-FLOWERS.
- Pager codes143becomesI love youThe number codes of the beeper years, and the keypad texting that came after.
- Calculator wordshellobecomes0.7734Type a word to get the number, or a number to see what it says turned over.
- Leetspeak translatorelitebecomes3l173Swap letters for the digits and symbols that look like them.
- SpongeBob mocking text generatormockingbecomesmOcKiNgSarcastic alternating caps, the mocking SpongeBob way, without holding Shift on every other letter.
- Pig Latin translatorhellobecomesellohayTurn English into Pig Latin, one word at a time.
- Periodic table wordsbaconbecomesBaCoNYour name, spelled in chemical elements.
- Text repeaterhabecomesha ha haRepeat a line up to 100 times, with whatever you like between the copies.
- Enchanting table translatorhellobecomes⍑ᒷꖎꖎ𝙹The Standard Galactic Alphabet from Minecraft's enchanting table, in symbols you can paste into chat.
- Wingdings translatorhellobecomes♒︎♏︎⚫︎⚫︎🞏The pictogram font from Windows 3.1, as real symbols that survive a paste.
- Text to ASCII arthellobecomes _ _ _ Big letters made of characters, in FIGlet's fonts.
- Image to ASCII artphotobecomes@%#*+=-:.A photo, redrawn in letters and symbols.
Nothing here matches that. Bold, cursive and the other letter styles are on the fancy text page.
Codes, games and old gadgets
None of these change how a letter looks. The fancy text generators do that, swapping each letter for a styled Unicode lookalike. The tools here change what the text is made of. It becomes digits for a pager, two notes per key on a phone line, element symbols, or the alphabet Tom Hall drew for Commander Keen in 1990.
Several started on machines with no letters at all. A numeric pager showed only digits, so in the 1990s 143 meant I love you: one letter, then four, then three. A calculator turned upside down reads 0.7734 as hello.
Phones gave the rest. Each key from 2 to 9 carries three or four letters, and the phone number speller finds the words a number hides, like 1-800-FLOWERS. The DTMF generator plays what that keypad sends down the line. The 1 key is 697 Hz and 1209 Hz at once.
Good for a joke, bad for a message
A screen reader reads symbols by their Unicode names, so "Hi" in Wingdings comes out as "white down pointing left hand index, pisces". Heavy leetspeak and the enchanting table fare little better. Use them where the joke is the point, and write anything people need to read or search for in plain letters.
Some of them can't be undone. Pig Latin throws away where each word was split, so ilesmay could be smile or miles.
Questions
What's the difference between fancy text and fun text?
Fancy text keeps your words and restyles the letters, so bold or cursive still reads as the same word. Fun text turns the words into something else, a code or a game, and a reader has to decode it.
Can I paste the results into a chat?
Yes, everything except the DTMF tones is plain text. The tones are sound, which you can play or save as a .wav file. Wingdings and the enchanting table borrow symbols from other scripts, so an older phone may show a few as empty boxes.
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