Big Text Generator

Two kinds of big text

People mean two different things when they ask for big text. Some want a word that looks larger or bolder than the text around it, to drop into a message, a gaming name or a profile. Others want a banner: a word drawn several lines tall out of ordinary keyboard characters, the kind you see at the top of a terminal program or a README file.

This page does both from the same box. Type once, then switch between the two outputs.

How to use the big text generator

1. Type a word or short phrase in the Your text field. It holds up to 60 characters.
2. Leave Big letters selected to see seven large-looking styles. Press Copy next to the one you want.
3. Press ASCII banner to draw the same text as a multi-line banner instead.
4. Pick a Font and, if you like, change Draw with to rebuild the banner from solid blocks, hash signs, stars or at signs.
5. Press Copy for the plain banner, Copy as code block to paste it into Discord or Slack, or Download to save it as a text file.

Big letters

These styles swap each letter for a Unicode character that takes more room or carries more weight on screen:

• Wide Capitals uses full-width letters, which were made for East Asian text and take up a full square each.
• Dark Squared and Squared put each capital inside a box.
• Dark Bubble puts each letter inside a filled circle.
• Letter Emoji uses the regional indicator letters that phones draw as colored tiles.
• Wide keeps your capitals and small letters but spreads them out.
• Sans Bold is the heaviest plain style, useful when the boxes feel like too much.

None of these change the font size. They just use characters that read as bigger. Squared, bubble and emoji styles only have capitals, so a mixed-case word comes out in capitals.

ASCII banners

An ASCII banner draws every letter on a grid several rows high. This page uses figlet fonts, a long-running format for text banners, and runs them in your browser. Here is “Hi” in the Big font:

  _    _ _ 
 | |  | (_)
 | |__| |_ 
 |  __  | |
 | |  | | |
 |_|  |_|_|

And “GG” in ANSI Shadow, which is built from block and line drawing characters:

 ██████╗  ██████╗ 
██╔════╝ ██╔════╝ 
██║  ███╗██║  ███╗
██║   ██║██║   ██║
╚██████╔╝╚██████╔╝
 ╚═════╝  ╚═════╝

The Draw with menu replaces every visible character with one symbol. This is “Hi” in Banner3 drawn with hash signs:

##     ## #### 
##     ##  ##  
##     ##  ##  
#########  ##  
##     ##  ##  
##     ##  ##  
##     ## ####

Each font is loaded the first time you pick it, so the page stays light until you need a banner.

Where big text works

Big letters paste like any other text, so they work in most places that accept emoji: Discord and WhatsApp messages, Instagram and TikTok bios, game chats, X posts and YouTube comments.

Banners are different. They depend on every character being the same width, so they need a fixed-width font:

• Discord, Slack and GitHub: press Copy as code block. It wraps the banner in three backticks, which these apps show in a fixed-width font.
• Code and terminals: paste the plain banner into a comment, a script header or a README.
• Email and documents: set the banner to a font such as Courier or Consolas after pasting.

In a normal chat message without a code block, the rows will slide out of line.

Tips and limits

• Keep banners short. A banner of eight letters can easily pass 45 characters wide. The status line shows the width and warns you when it will wrap on phones.
• Use Standard or Big for long words. Colossal and Banner3 are wide. Standard is the narrowest font in the list.
• Check emoji letters on another device. Letter Emoji look like colored tiles on most phones, but some desktop systems show plain boxed letters instead.
• Think about screen readers. A screen reader reads a banner as a jumble of symbols, and may read squared or emoji letters one by one with long names. Put the real words in normal text nearby if they matter.
• Mind platform filters. Some apps limit the number of lines in a bio or strip extra spaces, which can break a banner.

Related tools

For pictures made of characters, try the ASCII art generator, which also turns images into text. For rounder letters, use the bubble text generator. For a spaced-out retro look, see the vaporwave wide text generator.