Styles / Upside down
Upside Down Text Generator
Type a message and read it the other way up. The text is reversed and turned, so it reads correctly when you flip your screen over.
This swaps your letters for special characters. It is not a font file, and some screen readers read it badly, so keep it to decoration.
Showing a sample. Type above to see your own text.
Upside down
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Example
The line Hello, world, in this style:
Two operations
The order of the letters is reversed, and each letter is swapped for a character that looks like it has been turned half a turn. Question and exclamation marks become the inverted marks Spanish uses.
Borrowed letters
There is no upside down alphabet in Unicode. The generator borrows shapes from phonetic symbols, Greek and mathematics. Some capitals have no good match and get the closest one. A few letters, such as o, s, x and z, look the same either way up.
More than one line
If you type several lines their order is reversed as well, so the block turns over as a whole, like a card.
Keep it brief
A long upside down passage is hard work, and some of the borrowed characters may show as boxes on older devices. One line is the sweet spot.
Questions
Why is the text backwards as well?
Turning a line upside down also reverses its reading direction. Doing both is what makes it read naturally when flipped.
Why are some letters unchanged?
o, s, x and z look the same upside down, so there is no separate character for them.
Does it handle accents?
Plain letters, digits and common punctuation convert. Accented and non-Latin characters are left as they are.