10-03-2020, 08:39 PM
ASCII characters are the first 128 symbols of Unicode, and these are the things that you’re reading right now. But there are far more than 128 symbols in Unicode, and it just so happens that there are quite a few that look a bit like the normal Latin alphabet (i.e. that look like English text). Okay, so there are a bunch more characters than the ones on your keyboard, but how do we generate bold/italic/fancy text that can be copy-pasted away from this site and into another one?
We can take advantage of that to make «pseudo-alphabets» which resemble normal ASCII text, but which have certain differences — such as being bolder, or italic, or even upside down! These «alphabets» often aren’t perfect — they’re basically «Unicode hacks» which take advantage of various symbols from different sets all throughout the 100k+ symbols in the standard.
Since the Unicode standard is so big, it’ll take many years for all the characters to be included in all the new devices, but it’s happening pretty fast, so it may only be a month or two until your browser/device supports the new cool symbols.
The term «font» actually refers to a set of graphics that correspond to some or all of the Unicode glyphs. You’ve probably heard of «Comic Sans» and «Arial» — these are fonts. What you’re copying and pasting above are actually symbols that exist in every font. So that’s how we ended up with all these funky text fonts. Of course, many of the above «fonts» aren’t «proper» character sets — they were put together into a set that sort of resembles an alphabet.
Will this changer work for Facebook or Twitter?
Yes! You can use them on Tumblr, Reddit, Amino, Discord, Spectrum, WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, YouTube, QQ, SnapChat, Skype, VKontakte (VK), Pinterest, and more! It is going to work on Facebook and Twitter even if you want to send someone a text message is going to work. So you don’t have to worry about whether it’s going to support or not. it’s going to support almost all kinds of smartphones especially if your iPhone then is going to support 100% but on Facebook, there are some limitation which is limited by Facebook itself, FB doesn’t allow all kind of fancy text so there is a limitation on site. But on Twitter, it’s going to work well.
Using this website is the very easy only thing you have to do that just type your text on the input section, if you are on the desktop then it is going to show on top and if you are using a smartphone then it is going to show on the bottom.
For those interested
Okay, now on to the long explanation: The long explanation starts with an international organisation called «Unicode». It’s the organisation that handles the international standards for converting numbers into textual characters. So each letter that you’re reading right now is stored on my server as a series of zeros and ones. That needs to go from my server to your browser, and your browser needs to understand what those zeros and ones are referring to.In the early days of computing, everyone had their own ideas about which binary codes should refer to which textual characters — there was no universal standard saying 01100001=a, 01100010=b, etc., but that changed in the 1980s with the formation of Unicode.
One of the most popular «languages» in the early 1980s (especially in the USA) was ASCII — the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII was (and still is) just a simple set of conversion rules to go from numbers to characters. You can’t copy and paste some Comic Sans into your Instagram bio because the symbols the you’d be copying would just be normal ASCII characters.
In the early 1980s a bunch of prominent computer scientists and engineers got together to try to solve this increasingly annoying problem. They invented an encoding that was backwards compatible with ASCII (an absolute must since no one wanted to re-write all their documents and programs to handle a new encoding).
Why are some characters not displayed?
You may notice that some of the fonts don’t work on Instagram. Unfortunately Instagram filters out some of the fancy letters and symbols — probably because they don’t want people to abuse certain Unicode stuff like the excessive diacritics used in the «glitch text» font that you’ll see in the list.
This site is called Insta Fonts simply because Instagram is one of the most widely used social media platforms. As I’ve noted above, some sites disallow certain Unicode characters, and so not all of these Unicode fonts will work on all sites.
So really, if I were to be really pedantic, this site should be called «pseudo instagram fonts». But the current name gets the point across, and it’s nice and short.
We can take advantage of that to make «pseudo-alphabets» which resemble normal ASCII text, but which have certain differences — such as being bolder, or italic, or even upside down! These «alphabets» often aren’t perfect — they’re basically «Unicode hacks» which take advantage of various symbols from different sets all throughout the 100k+ symbols in the standard.
Since the Unicode standard is so big, it’ll take many years for all the characters to be included in all the new devices, but it’s happening pretty fast, so it may only be a month or two until your browser/device supports the new cool symbols.
The term «font» actually refers to a set of graphics that correspond to some or all of the Unicode glyphs. You’ve probably heard of «Comic Sans» and «Arial» — these are fonts. What you’re copying and pasting above are actually symbols that exist in every font. So that’s how we ended up with all these funky text fonts. Of course, many of the above «fonts» aren’t «proper» character sets — they were put together into a set that sort of resembles an alphabet.
Will this changer work for Facebook or Twitter?
Yes! You can use them on Tumblr, Reddit, Amino, Discord, Spectrum, WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, YouTube, QQ, SnapChat, Skype, VKontakte (VK), Pinterest, and more! It is going to work on Facebook and Twitter even if you want to send someone a text message is going to work. So you don’t have to worry about whether it’s going to support or not. it’s going to support almost all kinds of smartphones especially if your iPhone then is going to support 100% but on Facebook, there are some limitation which is limited by Facebook itself, FB doesn’t allow all kind of fancy text so there is a limitation on site. But on Twitter, it’s going to work well.
Using this website is the very easy only thing you have to do that just type your text on the input section, if you are on the desktop then it is going to show on top and if you are using a smartphone then it is going to show on the bottom.
For those interested
Okay, now on to the long explanation: The long explanation starts with an international organisation called «Unicode». It’s the organisation that handles the international standards for converting numbers into textual characters. So each letter that you’re reading right now is stored on my server as a series of zeros and ones. That needs to go from my server to your browser, and your browser needs to understand what those zeros and ones are referring to.In the early days of computing, everyone had their own ideas about which binary codes should refer to which textual characters — there was no universal standard saying 01100001=a, 01100010=b, etc., but that changed in the 1980s with the formation of Unicode.
One of the most popular «languages» in the early 1980s (especially in the USA) was ASCII — the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII was (and still is) just a simple set of conversion rules to go from numbers to characters. You can’t copy and paste some Comic Sans into your Instagram bio because the symbols the you’d be copying would just be normal ASCII characters.
In the early 1980s a bunch of prominent computer scientists and engineers got together to try to solve this increasingly annoying problem. They invented an encoding that was backwards compatible with ASCII (an absolute must since no one wanted to re-write all their documents and programs to handle a new encoding).
Why are some characters not displayed?
You may notice that some of the fonts don’t work on Instagram. Unfortunately Instagram filters out some of the fancy letters and symbols — probably because they don’t want people to abuse certain Unicode stuff like the excessive diacritics used in the «glitch text» font that you’ll see in the list.
This site is called Insta Fonts simply because Instagram is one of the most widely used social media platforms. As I’ve noted above, some sites disallow certain Unicode characters, and so not all of these Unicode fonts will work on all sites.
So really, if I were to be really pedantic, this site should be called «pseudo instagram fonts». But the current name gets the point across, and it’s nice and short.
