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Parenthesized Text Generator

Enclosed, boxed or lookalike alphabets; distinctive, less widely supported, and read out letter by letter by screen readers. Every letter has a form.

What Parenthesized text is

Parenthesized looks like each letter inside a pair of parentheses. Each letter is replaced by a different Unicode character from Enclosed Alphanumerics and Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement. Every one of the 52 letters has a styled form, so nothing stays plain. Digits stay as typed. Because the characters are part of Unicode, they paste into any field that accepts text and keep their look without a font being installed; what they cannot do is be restyled by a font menu.

Unicode block
Enclosed Alphanumerics, Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Made of
replacement characters, one per letter
Letters covered
52 of 52 (26 capitals, 26 lowercase); digits left as typed

Every letter in Parenthesized

🄐A🄑B🄒C🄓D🄔E🄕F🄖G🄗H🄘I🄙J🄚K🄛L🄜M🄝N🄞O🄟P🄠Q🄡R🄢S🄣T🄤U🄥V🄦W🄧X🄨Y🄩Z
⒜a⒝b⒞c⒟d⒠e⒡f⒢g⒣h⒤i⒥j⒦k⒧l⒨m⒩n⒪o⒫p⒬q⒭r⒮s⒯t⒰u⒱v⒲w⒳x⒴y⒵z

Where Parenthesized works

People paste Parenthesized into gaming names, Discord names and comments where they want to stand out. Bios and display names on Discord, Roblox and Steam often keep it; Instagram usernames and most sign-up forms reject it; older phones show boxes for some of the characters. Screen readers read the enclosed or lookalike characters one at a time, so it is for decoration, not information.

How to use Parenthesized

Type your text in the box; Parenthesized updates as you type, and the related styles at the foot of the page show the same text for comparison. Press Copy on the Parenthesized card, then paste into the app with a long press on a phone or Ctrl or Cmd and V on a desktop. If the app shows empty boxes, the device has no font for these characters; if the text reverts to plain letters on save, the field filters them, and a different style or an image from the font generator is the way round it.

Related styles on the same text

Styled text uses symbol characters that screen readers announce as symbols.

  • Fraktur
  • Bold Fraktur
  • Double-struck
  • Bubble Letters
  • Negative Circled
  • Squared

Every style in Fancy Text Generator