Squared Text Generator
Type text and get it back in squared capitals โ ๐ฑ๐พ๐ ๐ด๐ณ or ๐ ต๐ ธ๐ ป๐ ป๐ ด๐ ณ โ ready to copy into a bio, a post or a chat. The generator uses Unicode's real squared letters, never the regional indicator symbols that pair up into flags. Free, no sign-up.
Results
Squared (๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฒ)
Type above to see the result.
Unicode has squared capitals only, so lowercase letters are drawn as capitals.
Negative squared (๐ ฐ๐ ฑ๐ ฒ)
Type above to see the result.
๐ ฐ ๐ ฑ ๐ พ ๐ ฟ are also emoji, so some apps draw them as colored buttons that stand out from the other letters.
Screen readers may announce each square by its symbol name ("squared Latin capital letter G") or skip it, and search treats these characters as different from ordinary letters.
How to Use the Squared Text Generator
- Type or paste your text. Both styles update as you type: outlined squares and filled (negative) squares.
- Copy the style you want. Press Copy on its card and paste the letters into a bio, a display name, a caption or a message.
- Check the notes. Lowercase letters come out as capitals, and any digits or accented letters left unchanged are listed under the results.
- Fix colored letters if you see them. If ๐ ฐ, ๐ ฑ, ๐ พ or ๐ ฟ show up as colored emoji where you paste them, tick the option under the results and copy the filled style again.
How Squared Letters Work
Unicode's Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block holds two complete alphabets of boxed capitals, added in versions 5.2 and 6.0 (2009โ2010), partly for compatibility with Japanese broadcasting and mobile-phone character sets. The generator swaps each letter for the matching square โ one character in, one character out:
| Style | A | Z | Code points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squared | ๐ฐ (U+1F130) | ๐ (U+1F149) | U+1F130โU+1F149 |
| Negative squared | ๐ ฐ (U+1F170) | ๐ (U+1F189) | U+1F170โU+1F189 |
Unicode encodes no squared small letters and no squared digits. Lowercase therefore becomes capitals โ choose Try a sample and Game over comes out as ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ด ๐พ๐
๐ด๐
and ๐
ถ๐
ฐ๐
ผ๐
ด ๐
พ๐
๐
ด๐ โ and digits stay as they are. For numbers in boxes, the keycap emoji such as 1๏ธโฃ (a digit, VARIATION SELECTOR-16 and COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP) are the nearest equivalent, but they are colored emoji rather than letters.
Why Not Regional Indicator Letters?
Unicode has a third set of boxed-looking capitals: the 26 regional indicator symbols at U+1F1E6โU+1F1FF. They are not letters. They exist to spell flags โ any two in a row are read as a country code and drawn as that country's flag, so ๐บ followed by ๐ธ becomes ๐บ๐ธ. Type a word in them and the pairs fuse: CAT turns into the Canadian flag ๐จ๐ฆ followed by a lone ๐น, and deleting one letter can change every flag after it. Some generators use them anyway because they look like squared letters on a few systems. This one never does.
The ๐ ฐ ๐ ฑ ๐ พ ๐ ฟ Problem
Four of the filled letters are also emoji: ๐ ฐ, ๐ ฑ and ๐ พ are the blood-type buttons and ๐ ฟ is the parking sign. Their default presentation is text, but some apps draw them as colored tiles anyway, which breaks up a line of black squares. Ticking the option adds VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (U+FE0E) after each of the four โ Unicode's standard way to ask for the text form. Apps that honor it draw the plain letter; not all do, and the selector is an invisible character, which the Hidden Character Detector will show you.
Where Squared Text Works
- Bios, display names, captions and comments on most platforms accept squared letters. Usernames and handles are usually limited to Basic Latin letters, digits, periods and underscores, so they are rejected there.
- Current phones and computers include these characters in their symbol fonts. Older systems may show empty boxes, so check the result on a second device.
- Character limits can bite: every square lies outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so it takes four bytes in UTF-8 and two UTF-16 code units, and a field that counts code units counts each square twice.
A note on accessibility
Squared letters are symbols, not formatting. Screen readers may read each one by its full name ("negative squared Latin capital letter G") or skip it, and search and spell check don't recognize the word. Use them for a short decorative touch and keep anything people need to read in plain text.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I make letters in boxes?
- Type or paste your text into the generator and copy either the outlined or the filled style. Each letter is replaced with a Unicode squared capital, so the boxes are part of the text and survive copy and paste into apps that strip formatting.
- Why are all my letters capitals?
- Unicode encodes squared and negative squared versions of the 26 capital letters only โ there are no squared small letters. The generator draws lowercase input with the capitals rather than leaving those letters out.
- Can I put numbers in squares?
- Not as squared characters, because Unicode has no squared digits. The closest substitutes are the keycap emoji 0๏ธโฃ to 9๏ธโฃ and ๐, which are colored emoji sequences rather than plain letters, so they look different from squared text on every platform.
- Why did my text turn into flags?
- The text was written with regional indicator symbols, which look like boxed letters but combine in pairs into country flags. Retype it here: this generator uses the squared letters U+1F130โU+1F149 and U+1F170โU+1F189, which never combine.
- Why do some filled letters show up red or blue?
- ๐ ฐ, ๐ ฑ, ๐ พ and ๐ ฟ are also emoji, and some apps draw them in emoji style. Tick the option to add the text-style selector U+FE0E after them and copy again; apps that support standardized variation sequences then draw them like the other letters.
- What other squared characters does Unicode have?
- A set of squared words and abbreviations: the emoji ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ (AB, CL, COOL, FREE, ID, NEW, NG, OK, SOS, UP! and VS), and the plain symbols ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ (HV, MV, SD, SS, PPV and WC). Copy them from this answer if you need one.