What small text is
Small text is normal writing swapped for smaller letter shapes that already exist in Unicode. There is no “size” setting involved. You copy real characters, so the text stays small wherever you paste it: a bio, a username, a comment or a chat.
This page gives you three kinds of small text:
- Small Caps: capital shapes the height of lowercase letters, sitting on the line, like ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴛᴇxᴛ.
- Superscript: tiny letters raised near the top of the line, like ˢᵐᵃˡˡ ᵗᵉˣᵗ.
- Subscript: tiny letters dropped to the bottom of the line, like ₛₘₐₗₗ ₜₑₓₜ.
How to use the small text generator
- Type your words in the Your text box at the top. Press Clear to empty it.
- The three small styles appear right below, in large type, so you can compare them.
- Press Copy next to the style you want.
- Paste it into your profile, post or message.
- Want something else? The More styles list shows your text in dozens of other styles, each with a Copy button.
Where the small letters come from
None of these letters were designed as a “tiny font”. They were added to Unicode for other jobs, and generators borrow them.
Small caps come mostly from the Phonetic Extensions block, where linguists use them in pronunciation symbols, such as ᴀ (U+1D00) and ᴍ (U+1D0D). A few, such as ꜱ, come from other blocks. For x, the generator keeps a plain lowercase x, which is already about the right size.
Superscript letters are modifier letters, also from phonetics, where they mark sounds such as a puff of air after a consonant. Digits come from a set made for maths and footnotes: ¹, ² and ³ sit in the Latin-1 block, and the rest start at U+2070.
Subscript letters were added for phonetics and chemistry. Only seventeen letters of the alphabet have one: a, e, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v and x. Subscript digits run from U+2080 to U+2089.
Examples
These outputs came from the tool on this page:
| Input | Small Caps | Superscript | Subscript |
|---|---|---|---|
| small text | ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴛᴇxᴛ | ˢᵐᵃˡˡ ᵗᵉˣᵗ | ₛₘₐₗₗ ₜₑₓₜ |
| tiny hello | ᴛɪɴʏ ʜᴇʟʟᴏ | ᵗⁱⁿʸ ʰᵉˡˡᵒ | ₜᵢₙy ₕₑₗₗₒ |
| Quiet Zone 24 | Qᴜɪᴇᴛ Zᴏɴᴇ 24 | qᵘⁱᵉᵗ ᶻᵒⁿᵉ ²⁴ | Qᵤᵢₑₜ Zₒₙₑ ₂₄ |
The last row shows the gaps. Small caps leaves capitals you typed as they are and does not change numbers. Superscript turns everything into small letters, but q has no superscript form, so it stays full size. Subscript has no y, Q or Z, so those stay normal too.
Which style to choose
- For a name or heading, use Small Caps. Every letter a to z is covered, the letters line up on the baseline and they are easy to read.
- For a whisper effect or a tiny footnote, use Superscript. It is the smallest and covers every letter except q.
- For a playful low line, use Subscript, but expect gaps. Words built from the seventeen available letters work best.
If you need proper raised or lowered text for maths, footnotes or chemistry, the dedicated superscript generator and subscript generator have extra options, such as turning x^2 into x² and H2O into H₂O.
Tips and limits
- Read it on a phone first. Superscript and subscript are very small on mobile screens. A whole sentence can become hard to read.
- Mind mixed sizes. When a letter has no small form, it sticks out at full size. Rewording slightly often fixes it.
- Not every font has every letter. Most current phones and computers show all of these characters. A few rare ones, such as some small caps, may appear as boxes on older devices.
- Search does not see them as letters. Someone searching for “hello” will not find ʜᴇʟʟᴏ. Keep your real name in plain text somewhere if you want to be found.
- Screen readers may struggle. Some read small caps and superscript letters correctly. Others spell them out or describe them as phonetic symbols.
Related tools
For more on raised text, see the superscript generator. For lowered text and chemical formulas, use the subscript generator. Small caps are also popular in short-video bios, and the TikTok font generator collects the styles that work well there.