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Fontikaa Instagram Fonts

Welcome to Fontikaa! This is a website where you can generate text fonts to use in your Instagram bio. It's a helpful tool for creating unique and standout profiles. Simply enter your text in the input box, click "show more fonts" button and it'll keep generating and keep generating various Instagram font styles. You can also choose from the classic cursive or other stylish fonts that use symbols closer to the normal alphabet for a "neater" and more consistent style.

The site works by generating a bunch of different styles using a large range of different Unicode characters. So technically you're not actually generating fonts, but instead I guess you could say you're generating Instagram-compatible Unicode glyphs :) Want to learn more about Unicode? Read on...

Fontikaa Unicode

Computers must store all data in a binary format - that is, with zeros and ones. So each letter that you're reading right now is stored on my server as a series of zeros and ones. That needs to go from my server to your browser, and your browser needs to understand what those zeros and ones are referring to.In the early days of computing, everyone had their own ideas about which binary codes should refer to which textual characters - there was no universal standard saying 01100001=a, 01100010=b, etc., but that changed in the 1980s with the formation of Unicode. Unicode is an international standards body that works towards a universal specification for text characters. Before Unicode was formed, everyone had their own ways of storing and rendering text, and so whenever two programs from different programmers or organisations had to "talk" to one another, they'd have to build a "translator" so that they could understand which codes referred to which textual characters.

Unicode had a bit of a tough time though, because all the different organisations didn't want to change their whole system around just to comply with this new spec. So Unicode had to introduce a bunch of different symbol sets to support legacy systems. Over time, the number of symbols grew into the tens of thousands, and today we're moving into the hundreds of thousands. Emojis are also text symbols, and so the new emojis that are appearing all the time are coming out of the Unicode working group.

So that's how we ended up with such a large and strange/fun array of symbols, and that's the reason you're here! I've put together a bunch of fonts for Instagram that should be fund to play with and use for your bio. You may want to mix and match certain parts from different fonts.

Text Fonts or Text Symbols?

ASCII characters consist of the first 128 symbols of Unicode. Currently, you are reading these characters. However, Unicode includes more than 128 symbols, many of which resemble the English alphabet. By using these symbols, we can create "pseudo-alphabets" that look like normal ASCII text but have some differences, such as being bold, italic, or even upside down. These "alphabets" are essentially "Unicode hacks" that utilize various symbols from the vast Unicode standard. The term "font" refers to a set of graphics that correspond to some or all of the Unicode glyphs. Fonts like "Comic Sans" and "Arial" are examples. The symbols you see above are part of every font. Therefore, the cursive text and other fancy letters are separate characters, just like "a" and "b".

Copy and Paste

So why does it matter that they're separate characters? Who cares? Well, you do! Because if they weren't (i.e. if they were just normal fonts), then you wouldn't be able to copy and paste them! You can't copy and paste some Comic Sans into your Instagram bio because the symbols you'd be copying would be normal ASCII characters, and the fact that they're rendered in one font on one website doesn't mean that they'll appear as that same font on another - it's up to the website owner to decide what fonts they use on their website. However, if there's a set of Unicode characters that looks like a specific font, or has a particular style (e.g. bold, italic, cursive, etc.), then we can use them to "emulate" a font that will work across different websites when you copy and paste those "fonts". So really, if I were to be pedantic, this site should be called "pseudo-Instagram fonts". But the current name gets the point across, and it's nice and short :) So, anyway, that's why you're able to copy and paste these fonts into Instagram.

Compatability

One final note: You may notice that some of the fonts don't work on Instagram. Unfortunately Instagram filters out some of the fancy letters and symbols - probably because they don't want people to abuse certain Unicode stuff like the excessive diacritics used in the "glitch text" font that you'll see in the list.

That's all for now! I hope you find all these Instagram fonts useful. You can keep clicking the "show more" button, and it will keep randomizing all the different symbol alphabets all day long. If you have a stylish text font that you've created, or you want to share some feedback, please share it here.

I'm always playing around building new websites, so if you've got any other ideas for text generators or text fonts, feel free to share those too. 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓀𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓅𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓎! ٩( ᐛ )و