Longer reads on Unicode, typography, and the text toys on this site.
The generators on this site turn letters into other Unicode letters. That's a tool. These pages are the reading part: how those letters got into Unicode, why Instagram sometimes draws a box instead of a script π½, and how Morse actually gets timed. I'd rather you leave knowing the trick than just copying a string.
Each guide sits in the 800 to 1,200 word range. No signup. If a tool on textzy is useful after the article, the link is in the body. Start with any card below.
One sentence through too many languages, then home wearing the wrong coat.
βThee and forsooth are a costume. Chaucer is a different animal.
βMissing letters and swapped words, not a cat on the keyboard.
βThose cursive letters are real Unicode characters, not a font you install.
βFancy Unicode looks cute until a screen reader spells it letter by letter.
βHow print type split into families, and where Unicode script letters sit in that story.
βTofu boxes, stripped bios, and fonts that never shipped on the phone.
βDots, dashes, and why E is one tap. How to read it without drowning in noise.
βMove the first sound, add ay. Why it still sounds secret after a century.
βA became 4 because a filter couldn't read digits. Then the joke escaped.
βScript letters in Unicode came from math printing, not from a fountain pen.
βThose crawling letters are combining marks stacked on a normal character.
βIt's a letter swap plus a reverse, not a rotate tool in the phone.
βThose mini letters are their own code points, not a shrink slider.
βColour, sidewalk, and the slang that isn't a spelling change at all.
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