Small Text Generator
Turn your words into ˢᵘᵖᵉʳˢᶜʳⁱᵖᵗ, ₛᵤbₛcᵣᵢₚₜ or ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ letters, and see which ones Unicode can actually shrink (no subscript b or c, for a start).
Tap any style to copy it. Accented letters (é, ñ, ü) and numbers work too.
Heads-up: screen readers may skip these letters or read them one by one, and search engines may not match them. Keep important words, like your name or contact info, in plain text too.
What is small text?
Small text is writing made from the tiny letters that already exist in Unicode, the character set every phone and computer uses. There are three families of them. Superscript letters sit high on the line, like the 2 in x². Subscript letters hang low, like the 2 in H₂O. Small capitals have the shape of capital letters but only the height of lowercase ones, ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜɪꜱ. None of them is a font: each one is its own character, which is why tiny text stays tiny when you paste it into a bio, a caption or a message.
How to make small text
- Type or paste your words into the box at the top. The list shows “Small Text 123” until you do.
- Read the note above each result: it tells you how many letters stayed full size or were replaced with a look-alike, so you know before you paste.
- Tap the version you want to copy it, then paste it where you need it.
Superscript, subscript or small caps?
- Superscript is the most complete set for lowercase letters and digits, which is why most “tiny text” you see online is superscript. Unicode only has some raised capitals, so the first style mixes real ones (ᴬ ᴮ ᴰ) with lowercase stand-ins. Pick “all lowercase” for a more even look.
- Subscript has every digit but only 17 lowercase letters and no capitals at all. It is great for chemical formulas and indexes like x₁, and patchy for words: letters without a subscript form stay normal size.
- Small caps covers 24 of the 26 letters exactly and reads like a quiet heading. The “capitals kept” version leaves every capital you type at full size and shrinks the rest, so typing “Hello World” gives Hᴇʟʟᴏ Wᴏʀʟᴅ, the way small caps look in printed books. It does not capitalize anything for you: type the capitals you want.
Small text letter chart
Not every letter has a tiny version, and other generators rarely tell you which ones are missing. This chart comes from the same data the generator uses. A letter with no note is a genuine Unicode small form. A “lowercase form” means Unicode has no small capital for that position, so the small lowercase letter is used. A “look-alike” is a different character that resembles the letter. “Stays plain” means nothing small exists, and the letter is left at normal size.
| Letter | Superscript (a–z) | Superscript (A–Z) | Subscript (a–z) | Small caps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a / A | ᵃ | ᴬ | ₐ | ᴀ |
| b / B | ᵇ | ᴮ | — stays plain | ʙ |
| c / C | ᶜ | ᶜlowercase form | — stays plain | ᴄ |
| d / D | ᵈ | ᴰ | — stays plain | ᴅ |
| e / E | ᵉ | ᴱ | ₑ | ᴇ |
| f / F | ᶠ | ᶠlowercase form | — stays plain | ꜰ |
| g / G | ᵍ | ᴳ | — stays plain | ɢ |
| h / H | ʰ | ᴴ | ₕ | ʜ |
| i / I | ⁱ | ᴵ | ᵢ | ɪ |
| j / J | ʲ | ᴶ | ⱼ | ᴊ |
| k / K | ᵏ | ᴷ | ₖ | ᴋ |
| l / L | ˡ | ᴸ | ₗ | ʟ |
| m / M | ᵐ | ᴹ | ₘ | ᴍ |
| n / N | ⁿ | ᴺ | ₙ | ɴ |
| o / O | ᵒ | ᴼ | ₒ | ᴏ |
| p / P | ᵖ | ᴾ | ₚ | ᴘ |
| q / Q | ᑫlook-alike | ᑫlook-alike | — stays plain | ǫlook-alike |
| r / R | ʳ | ᴿ | ᵣ | ʀ |
| s / S | ˢ | ˢlowercase form | ₛ | ꜱ |
| t / T | ᵗ | ᵀ | ₜ | ᴛ |
| u / U | ᵘ | ᵁ | ᵤ | ᴜ |
| v / V | ᵛ | ⱽ | ᵥ | ᴠ |
| w / W | ʷ | ᵂ | — stays plain | ᴡ |
| x / X | ˣ | ˣlowercase form | ₓ | — stays plain |
| y / Y | ʸ | ʸlowercase form | — stays plain | ʏ |
| z / Z | ᶻ | ᶻlowercase form | — stays plain | ᴢ |
| Set | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superscript | ⁰ | ¹ | ² | ³ | ⁴ | ⁵ | ⁶ | ⁷ | ⁸ | ⁹ |
| Subscript | ₀ | ₁ | ₂ | ₃ | ₄ | ₅ | ₆ | ₇ | ₈ | ₉ |
| Small caps | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
In numbers: superscript has 25 of 26 lowercase letters and 19 of 26 capitals; subscript has 17 lowercase letters and no capitals (capitals use the lowercase subscript where there is one, and the other 9 stay plain); small caps has 24 letters. Small caps has no digits, so numbers stay normal in that style; there is a dash in the chart for each one.
Where this comes from: the genuine forms are the modifier letters and superscript and subscript characters whose Unicode decomposition points back to the plain letter, checked character by character in the generator's tests against Unicode 17 data. Unicode 14.0 (2021) and later versions added a few more, a raised q (U+107A5) and raised capitals C, F, Q and S (U+A7F1 to U+A7F4). On the Mac we tested, the browser showed all five as empty boxes, so the generator does not use them yet. The small capital Q (ꞯ, Unicode 11.0) did display there, but we have not confirmed it on phones.
Where small text works
Tiny letters suit short, quiet touches: a soft subtitle under your name in an Instagram or TikTok bio, a whispered aside in a caption, a footnote mark, a tag line in a Discord status, or a unit like m² or a formula like H₂O in a chat. If you are styling an Instagram profile, the Instagram fonts page previews your bio and counts its 150 characters. For the opposite effect, big flowing letters for a name, use the cursive font generator, and for bold, gothic, bubble and more than 40 other looks, go back to the fancy text generator.
Keep in mind that tiny letters are hard to read on a small screen, so a whole paragraph of them works against you. Search inside apps matches plain letters, so a word written in small text may not show up when someone searches for it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no small q?
Unicode's tiny letters were collected for linguists and mathematicians, who needed some letters and not others, and a raised q was not added until Unicode 14.0 in 2021. Most phones and computers still have no font for that new character (it showed as an empty box when we tested on a Mac), so the generator uses ᑫ, a symbol from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics that looks like a small q. Small caps has the same gap: ǫ, a q with a small hook, stands in for it.
Is this the same as the superscript button in Word or Google Docs?
No. The superscript button is formatting: the letters stay ordinary and the editor draws them smaller and higher, which disappears when you paste into an app without formatting. The generator swaps each letter for a separate Unicode character that is small by design, so it keeps its size in a bio, a chat or a username field. For a real document, the formatting button is still the better choice because every letter and symbol works.
Why do my small letters look uneven?
The tiny letters come from several parts of Unicode that were added at different times, so a phone often draws them from two or three different fonts. That is why ᶜ can sit lower or look thinner than ᵃ next to it. Short words in all-lowercase superscript, or small caps, usually look the most even.
Can I use small text in a username?
It depends on the app. Instagram, TikTok and X only allow plain letters, numbers and a few symbols in the @username, so small letters will be rejected there, but bios, display names in many apps, captions and chat messages accept them. Games vary; try it in the name field and the game will tell you if a character is not allowed.
Are small numbers useful for math and chemistry?
Yes, and they are complete: every digit from 0 to 9 has a superscript and a subscript form, along with plus, minus, equals and parentheses. That makes x², 10⁻³, H₂O or CO₂ easy to type in a chat or a comment where there is no formatting toolbar.
Will screen readers read small text?
Not reliably. A screen reader may announce “modifier letter small a” for each character or skip them altogether. Use tiny letters for decoration, a short aside or a footnote mark, and keep anything important in normal text.