Upside Down Font Generator — Copy & Paste

This page focuses on one style — Upside Down — and explains what it is, where it works, and where it breaks.

Device support: Good — a handful of substitutes are approximate

About the Upside Down Style

There is no upside-down alphabet in Unicode. What this generator does is find, for each letter, a different existing character that happens to resemble it rotated 180 degrees — then reverse the string so it reads correctly when flipped.

Some of the substitutions are exact. Lowercase n and u are genuinely each other's rotations, as are b and q, d and p. Others are borrowed from unrelated scripts: the flipped a is ɐ, a phonetic symbol; flipped e is ǝ, a schwa; flipped y is ⅄, a Roman numeral character.

A few have no good match at all. Uppercase Q borrows a Greek letter with an accent, and the result is only approximately right. This is inherent to the technique rather than a limitation of this particular tool.

Because the string is reversed, text-selection behaves oddly — dragging across flipped text selects it in what looks like the wrong direction. That is expected.

Frequently Asked Questions