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Vaporwave text generator for X
Vaporwave text uses full-width letters, the wide forms made for Chinese and Japanese text. Every character takes the space of two, which gives the slow, spaced-out “aesthetic” look.
- Vaporwave50 / 280
ｌａｔｅ ｎｉｇｈｔ ｃｏｄｉｎｇ ｓｅｓｓｉｏｎ
- Small caps · Capitals become small caps too37 / 280
ʟᴀᴛᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ᴄᴏᴅɪɴɢ ꜱᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ
- Bubble47 / 280
ⓛⓐⓣⓔ ⓝⓘⓖⓗⓣ ⓒⓞⓓⓘⓝⓖ ⓢⓔⓢⓢⓘⓞⓝ
- Monospace47 / 280
𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗
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- Bold serif47 / 280
𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
- Bold sans47 / 280
𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
- Italic serif · Numbers stay upright47 / 280
𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛
- Italic sans · Numbers stay upright47 / 280
𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯
- Bold italic serif · Numbers stay upright47 / 280
𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
- Bold italic sans · Numbers stay upright47 / 280
𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣
- Cursive · Numbers stay plain47 / 280
𝓁𝒶𝓉ℯ 𝓃𝒾ℊ𝒽𝓉 𝒸ℴ𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓈ℯ𝓈𝓈𝒾ℴ𝓃
- Bold cursive · Numbers stay plain47 / 280
𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷
- Gothic · Numbers stay plain47 / 280
𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫
- Bold gothic · Numbers stay plain47 / 280
𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖘𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓
- Double-struck47 / 280
𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟
- Strikethrough47 / 280
l̶a̶t̶e̶ n̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ c̶o̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ s̶e̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶
- Slashed through47 / 280
l̸a̸t̸e̸ n̸i̸g̸h̸t̸ c̸o̸d̸i̸n̸g̸ s̸e̸s̸s̸i̸o̸n̸
- Underline47 / 280
l̲a̲t̲e̲ n̲i̲g̲h̲t̲ c̲o̲d̲i̲n̲g̲ s̲e̲s̲s̲i̲o̲n̲
- Double underline47 / 280
l̳a̳t̳e̳ n̳i̳g̳h̳t̳ c̳o̳d̳i̳n̳g̳ s̳e̳s̳s̳i̳o̳n̳
- Dark bubble · Capitals only47 / 280
🅛🅐🅣🅔 🅝🅘🅖🅗🅣 🅒🅞🅓🅘🅝🅖 🅢🅔🅢🅢🅘🅞🅝
- Squared · Capitals only47 / 280
🄻🄰🅃🄴 🄽🄸🄶🄷🅃 🄲🄾🄳🄸🄽🄶 🅂🄴🅂🅂🄸🄾🄽
- Upside down28 / 280
uoᴉssǝs ƃuᴉpoɔ ʇɥƃᴉu ǝʇɐl
When to use it
It belongs to a mood: music, art, late-night posts, anything with a retro-internet feel. A single wide line over a photo post is the usual use.
It also works ironically, to make a mundane line sound dreamy. Short is better; a long wide line wraps badly on a phone.
Full-width spaces are wide too, so the line takes a lot of room. On X each wide character counts as two.
What styled text costs on X
These are not fonts in the usual sense. They are different characters that happen to look like styled letters, and X treats them that way.
| Where | Works | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Posts and replies | Yes | Each styled letter counts as 2 of your 280, so keep it to a line. |
| Display name | Yes | 50 characters at most, and styled letters use them twice as fast. |
| Bio | Yes | 160 characters. A styled job title or one styled word is plenty. |
| @handle | No | Handles only take plain letters, numbers and underscores. |
| Hashtags | No | A styled hashtag is not a hashtag. X won’t link it or count it. |
| Search | Poorly | Search looks for plain letters, so styled words are hard to find. |
The bigger cost is reading. Screen readers either skip these characters or read them out one by one, as in “mathematical bold capital H”. A styled word is fine. A styled post shuts out the people who listen to X rather than read it, and many people do. Keep the important part in plain text and use styles for decoration around it.
For the same reason, don’t put the point of a post in styled text. If the post only works when people can read the styled line, it doesn’t work for everyone. To see how much of the limit a whole post uses, paste it into the tweet character counter.
Questions
What is vaporwave text?
Text in full-width characters, named after the music and art style that uses it. The letters are spaced as if each one were a Chinese character.
Why does vaporwave text count double on X?
Full-width characters are counted the way X counts Chinese and Japanese text: two each.
Can I search for vaporwave text on X?
Usually not. Search matches plain letters, so posts in full-width text are harder to find.
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