Upside down text

How upside down text works

It's not a font and it's not an image: each letter is replaced with a Unicode character that looks like it rotated 180 degrees. Many come from the International Phonetic Alphabet (the flipped "ǝ", the "ɐ"), others from math symbols and from non-Latin alphabets. After the substitution, the phrase is also reversed right-to-left, so when you read it upside down it flows the right way. Since it's plain text, you can paste it anywhere you can type: WhatsApp, Telegram, comments, Instagram or TikTok bios, gaming nicknames.

Accents, emoji and letters without a twin

Accented letters keep their accent: what was above goes below, so «é» becomes ǝ̗, and the cedilla becomes a comma above the letter. Emoji, flags and letters made of several pieces move as a whole: reversing the text one piece at a time would split a flag into two letters and detach the accents.

Every character has exactly one twin, and the table works both ways: flipping twice gives back the starting text. Letters with no believable twin stay as they are: in lowercase l, o, s, x and z, in uppercase H, I, N, O, S, X and Z, among the digits 0 and 8. The characters that broke the line have been removed, that is the double-width ones and the ones written right to left.

Where to use it (and where it can cause trouble)

It works great for quirky messages, chat pranks and bios that stand out. On very old devices some characters may show up as an empty square. And screen readers read these symbols by their technical name, or skip them: use it for fun, not for anything important.

The other pages with the same engine

The seven special-character pages share the same engine and the same table of styles, so the same text, in the same style, comes out identical on all of them. The other six are Fancy fonts for bio, Fancy text generator, Small caps text, Spaced text, Alternating case and Leet speak translator.