Bubble Text Generator

Bubble letters need no font, image or app.

1. Type or paste your text into the Input box.
2. The converted version appears in the output box straight away.
3. Open the Style menu and pick Outlined bubbles, Filled bubbles or Squares.
4. Click Copy, or Download .txt to save a text file.
5. Paste the result into your caption, bio, message or username.

Letters a to z and A to Z, and in two of the styles digits, are converted. Spaces, punctuation and emoji stay as typed, so you can mix bubble letters with normal text on one line, for example circling only the first letter of each word.

Worked example. The input Bubble 2024 hi gives Ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ ②⓪②④ ⓗⓘ in Outlined bubbles, 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅛🅔 ❷⓿❷❹ 🅗🅘 in Filled bubbles, and 🄱🅄🄱🄱🄻🄴 2024 🄷🄸 in Squares. Notice that lower-case hi became capital forms in the last two styles, because Unicode has no lower-case filled circles or squares.

Each digit is circled on its own, so 10 appears as ①⓪, not as a single circled ten. For a different kind of standout text, try the wide text generator or the bold text generator.

The outlined set lives in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, U+2460 to U+24FF, which was added for East Asian character sets where circled numbers mark list items and footnotes. It dates from the early 1990s and shows on almost any device. The filled circles and the squares belong to the later Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, so a very old system may show empty boxes for them.

• Bubble text is wide and slow to read. Keep it to a word or a short phrase.
• Screen readers may announce each letter as circled or squared, or spell them out, so do not use it for essential information.
• Search does not match bubble letters to plain spelling, so leave keywords and hashtags in ordinary letters.
• The filled and squared letters sit outside the basic plane, and some platforms count each one as two characters toward a limit.

Circled digits make tidy markers in a bio, such as ① ② ③ for a short list. For a name in many styles at once, use the fancy name generator or the Unicode text converter. Paste bubble text into Remove Text Formatting to return it to plain letters, though some filled characters may not convert back.

Circled and squared letters work as markers and labels more often than as running text.

• List markers. Convert the digits 1 2 3 on their own and use ① ② ③ at the start of each line in a bio or caption. Filled bubbles give the heavier ❶ ❷ ❸.
• Single circled letters. Circling just the first letter of a word, as in Ⓕresh, gives a drop-cap feel without converting the whole word.
• Short labels. A word such as Ⓕⓡⓔⓢⓗ Ⓑⓡⓔⓐⓓ reads fine, while a full sentence turns into a wall of rings.
• Badges. Squares suit tags and categories: 🄵🅁🄴🅂🄷 looks like a row of tiles.

Mistakes that come up often:

• Expecting a circled ten. The tool circles each digit separately, so 10 is ①⓪. Unicode does contain ⑩ and larger circled numbers, but this generator does not use them.
• Converting hashtags. Circled letters are not recognised as part of a tag, so the tag stops working.
• Mixing styles on one line. Outlined and filled bubbles have different weights, and pairing them looks uneven.
• Forgetting that the filled and squared styles show capitals only, so a mixed-case name loses its capitals pattern.

If you use bubble numbers in a list, add a short plain-text version for anyone whose device cannot display the characters.