About GlamGlyphs

What the site does

GlamGlyphs helps you find a symbol or text style, see it, and copy it in one tap. There are two kinds of tools:

• Text generators convert what you type into Unicode characters that look bold, cursive, bubbly, gothic and so on.
• Symbol collections group hearts, stars, arrows, brackets, dividers, kaomoji and emoji by what people use them for.

There’s no sign-up and nothing to install. Your text is converted in your browser; it isn’t sent to us.

How it works — and what it can’t do

Everything here is Unicode text, the standard that lets phones and computers share characters. That’s why the results paste into apps that don’t let you choose a font. It also means:

• Appearance depends on the device. Your phone or computer draws each character with its own fonts, so a symbol can look different — or show as a box — on another device.
• Styled letters aren’t really a font. They’re maths and symbol characters. Screen readers may read them oddly, and search may not match them.
• Some places only accept plain text. Most usernames and handles reject symbols; display names and bios usually accept them.

Each page includes notes on these limits for the symbols on that page.

How pages are put together

Symbols are grouped by job (for example, “link markers” for bios) and labelled with a descriptive name so they’re searchable. Where a symbol is new or poorly supported, the page says so. If you spot a mistake — a wrong name, a symbol that’s broken on your device, or outdated platform rules — please tell us.

Free to use

Unicode characters aren’t owned by anyone, so you can use what you copy in personal and commercial projects. Emoji artwork belongs to the companies that design it (Apple, Google and others); that only matters if you reuse the images themselves rather than the characters.

Contact

Questions, corrections and symbol requests are welcome on the contact page.