Gothic Text Generator
Fraktur letters as copy-paste text. Enclosed, boxed or lookalike alphabets; distinctive, less widely supported, and read out letter by letter by screen readers. Every letter has a form.
What Fraktur text is
Fraktur looks like blackletter, the angular gothic alphabet of early printing. Each letter is replaced by a different Unicode character from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and Letterlike Symbols. 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
- Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, Letterlike Symbols
- Made of
- replacement characters, one per letter
- Letters covered
- 52 of 52 (26 capitals, 26 lowercase); digits left as typed
Every letter in Fraktur
| 𝔄A | 𝔅B | ℭC | 𝔇D | 𝔈E | 𝔉F | 𝔊G | ℌH | ℑI | 𝔍J | 𝔎K | 𝔏L | 𝔐M | 𝔑N | 𝔒O | 𝔓P | 𝔔Q | ℜR | 𝔖S | 𝔗T | 𝔘U | 𝔙V | 𝔚W | 𝔛X | 𝔜Y | ℨZ |
| 𝔞a | 𝔟b | 𝔠c | 𝔡d | 𝔢e | 𝔣f | 𝔤g | 𝔥h | 𝔦i | 𝔧j | 𝔨k | 𝔩l | 𝔪m | 𝔫n | 𝔬o | 𝔭p | 𝔮q | 𝔯r | 𝔰s | 𝔱t | 𝔲u | 𝔳v | 𝔴w | 𝔵x | 𝔶y | 𝔷z |
Where Fraktur works
People paste Fraktur 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 Fraktur
Type your text in the box; Fraktur updates as you type, and the related styles at the foot of the page show the same text for comparison. Press Copy on the Fraktur 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 Heart
- Bold Fraktur
- Double-struck
- Bubble Letters
- Negative Circled
- Squared