Skip to content

About

Fancy Font Generator

Resources

Stars

1 star

Watchers

0 watching

Forks

Latest commit

 

History

91 Commits

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

Fancy Font Generator 𝔽𝖆𝖓𝖈𝕪 𝔽𝖔𝖓𝕥 𝕲𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖗𝕒𝕥𝖔𝖗 ☠

A single-file, gothic-punk Unicode text stylizer. Type text once, get it back in 100+ fancy/cursed/chaotic fonts — no fonts actually installed, just clever Unicode character substitution that works anywhere (Discord, Instagram bios, usernames, anywhere text goes).

Live site: https://ad0rkableg33k.github.io/FontGenerator.html


Features

  • 104 styles and counting — from clean serif/script/gothic Unicode fonts, to bubble and kawaii styles, combining-diacritic effects (strikethrough, underline, overline), 1337-speak, and full-on chaos mashups that randomly blend two styles together per character.
  • Signature style: BatStyle — a custom hand-picked glyph mapping (mixed Cyrillic, Greek, and IPA characters) that's the site's flagship look, pinned as the very first style in the list.
  • Live search/filter — type in the filter box to instantly narrow down the style list by name.
  • Decorator toolbar — wrap your output in themed bookends (☠ skulls, ⛧ pentagram, ☆ star, 🕸 spider web, 🦇 bat, ⚰️ coffin, 🖤 black heart) with one click.
  • Copy-on-click cards — click any style's output card to instantly copy that version to your clipboard, with a toast confirmation.
  • Clear button to reset the input instantly.
  • Gothic-punk visual design — hot pink and magenta on black, drippy top border, skull-and-pentagram accents, all consistent with the rest of the Unsolicited Deck Pics universe.
  • Sticky nav bar linking to Unsolicited Deck Pics (tarot/oracle site), Reality is Buffering (webcomic), GitHub, and YouTube.

How It Works

  • A normal array holds the 62 standard characters (A–Z, a–z, 0–9) in a fixed order.
  • Every style is either:
    • A static 62-item array of replacement characters in that same order (simple lookup by index), or
    • A function (input) => string for styles that need logic — random mashups between two other styles, 1337-speak substitution tables, decorative effects like strikethrough/underline, etc.
  • Mashup/combo styles reference other styles by their exact key name (e.g. styles["9. Gothic"]), so styles can be freely reordered in the file without breaking anything — the lookups happen at render time, not at declaration time.
  • The visible order of styles in the UI matches the order they're declared in the styles object (JavaScript preserves insertion order for string keys), not the numeric prefix in the name — the numbers are just a naming/sorting convenience for humans, not a mechanism the code reads.

Adding a New Style

  1. Pick a unique 62-character mapping (or write a function) covering A–Z, a–z, 0–9 in that exact order.
  2. Add it to the styles object wherever you want it to appear in the list — position in the file is position in the UI.
  3. If it's a static style, double check the array has exactly 62 entries — a short array will silently produce garbled/missing output for the tail-end characters.

Tech Notes

  • Single-file HTML/CSS/JS, no build step, no dependencies — hosted directly on GitHub Pages.
  • No external font files are loaded for the styles themselves; everything is native Unicode characters, so output works anywhere Unicode text is supported (some styles rely on astral-plane characters like mathematical alphanumeric symbols, which render fine in modern browsers/apps but occasionally show as boxes on very old systems).

Part of the ad0rkableg33k creative universe — see also Unsolicited Deck Pics and Reality is Buffering.

About

Fancy Font Generator

Resources

Stars

1 star

Watchers

0 watching

Forks

Releases

Packages

Contributors

Languages