Vaporwave text generator

Type your text and the wide version appears as you type, ready to copy. The spaced style also puts a gap between every letter, the look that went with vaporwave album covers. To turn wide text back into ordinary letters, swap the direction and paste it in.

They aren't a font. Unicode has a block of fullwidth forms, a second copy of the ASCII letters, digits and punctuation, each as wide as a Chinese or Japanese character. It's there so that older East Asian encodings, which had both narrow and wide versions, convert to Unicode without losing anything. Each sits exactly 65,248 places above its ordinary twin, from U+FF01 for ! to U+FF5E for ~, and a space becomes U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE, which is just as wide.

Because they're real characters, they survive copy and paste into Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X and anywhere else that takes plain text. Letters with accents have no wide form, so they're left as they are.

Vaporwave is an internet music style and look that emerged in the early 2010s, reworking dance music from the 1980s and early 1990s. Its name is often written ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ in fullwidth characters, and that wide lettering, often beside Japanese text, became shorthand for the whole style.

Screen readers may spell wide text out letter by letter, or name each character, so keep it for decoration and leave anything people need to read in plain letters. Search won't always match wide words to the ordinary ones either.