Wide Text Generator
Type a line and get it back in full-width characters: Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ ２０２６！ Every letter, digit and punctuation mark becomes its wide twin, and every space becomes a wide space, which gives the stretched-out, spaced look of vaporwave captions and aesthetic bios. Free, no sign-up.
Wide text (full-width)
Your result will appear here
How to Use the Wide Text Generator
- Type or paste your text. The wide version appears below as you type.
- Decide on the case first. The generator keeps your capitals and lowercase as typed. Vaporwave captions are often all caps — convert the case first with the Case Converter if you want that.
- Copy the result. Press Copy and paste it into a bio, caption or message.
- Check line breaks. Line breaks are left alone, so each line is widened independently.
What Full-Width Characters Are
Full-width forms were not created for aesthetics. East Asian writing sets each character in a square cell, and older Japanese, Chinese and Korean text encodings included Latin letters and digits drawn to fill that same cell, so Latin text could line up with kanji. Unicode kept them for compatibility in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block (U+FF00–U+FFEF), where they have been present since Unicode 1.1. Used in Western text they look stretched and evenly spaced, which is where the vaporwave look comes from.
| Input | What the tool does | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Letters A–Z, a–z | Maps to U+FF21–FF3A and U+FF41–FF5A, keeping the case | Ａ…Ｚ ａ…ｚ |
| Digits 0–9 | Maps to U+FF10–FF19 | ０１２３４５６７８９ |
| Punctuation and symbols (! to ~) | Every printable ASCII character moves by the same offset, to U+FF01–FF5E | ！＠＃＄％＆（）～ |
| Space | Becomes the ideographic space, U+3000 | Wide gap between words |
| Accents, emoji, other scripts | Left as typed | é stays é |
All printable ASCII, from the exclamation mark (U+0021) to the tilde (U+007E), is shifted by 0xFEE0, so "Sunset Drive, 1987" becomes Ｓｕｎｓｅｔ Ｄｒｉｖｅ， １９８７. Because the whole range moves together, backslashes, quotation marks and tildes widen as well — "~" becomes ～. Characters outside printable ASCII are not touched, so "café" comes out as ｃａｆé with a normal é.
Limits and Side Effects to Know
- Not for anything typed back or matched. Wide letters are different characters from ordinary ones, so ａ．ｂ＠ｃ．ｃｏｍ is not an email address, a link or a file name that anything will recognise.
- Longer in bytes. Each wide character takes 3 bytes in UTF-8 rather than 1, so Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ ２０２６！ is 15 characters but 45 bytes. Character limits count characters, but file and database sizes grow.
- SMS. Text containing these characters is typically sent as Unicode rather than the plain GSM alphabet, which allows about 70 characters per message part instead of 160.
- Searchability. A search for "vaporwave" will not find ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ unless the platform normalizes text, which many do not.
Which Tool Do You Need?
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| Stretched, spaced-out letters | This page |
| Letters inside circles or boxes | Bubble Text Generator, Squared Text Generator |
| Typewriter letters of equal width | Monospace Text Generator |
| Wide text turned back to normal | Unicode Text Normalizer, which can narrow full-width characters |
A note on accessibility
Full-width letters are compatibility forms of ordinary letters, so some screen readers read them as the plain letters and others announce them as full-width characters; test with the one your readers use. Spelling, search and translation tools still see different characters, and a long caption is tiring to read. Use it for short decorative lines, not for information anyone must act on.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is wide text, or full-width text?
- Letters, numbers and punctuation drawn to fill a square cell the width of a Chinese or Japanese character. In Unicode they are separate characters in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. On the Latin alphabet they look stretched and spaced out, which is the vaporwave aesthetic.
- How do I type full-width characters?
- Switching your Japanese or Chinese input method to full-width mode types them, but it is quicker to type your text here and copy the result. The generator moves each printable ASCII character into the full-width block and turns spaces into wide spaces.
- Why are there big gaps between my words?
- Spaces become the ideographic space (U+3000), which is as wide as a full-width character, so word gaps are as wide as the letters. That is the expected look. If you want ordinary gaps, replace the wide spaces with normal ones after copying.
- Can I convert full-width text back to normal letters?
- Yes. Unicode's compatibility normalization (NFKC) maps every full-width form back to the plain character, and so does the narrowing option in the Unicode Text Normalizer.
- Does wide text work on Instagram, X and Discord?
- It is plain text in a long-established Unicode block, so it displays on practically every current platform. It does not work in fields that restrict characters, such as most usernames and handles.
- Is full-width text bad for accessibility or SEO?
- It can be, though it is milder than the mathematical styles. Search engines may not match it to plain keywords, translation tools may skip it, and screen readers may announce the characters differently from normal letters. Keep it to short decorative lines.