Text Effects with Unicode: Underline and Shadow Styles
Apply underline, double underline, and decorative text effects using Unicode combining characters. Works anywhere fonts can't be changed.
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Unicode Text Effects: Small Caps, Old Style Numbers, and Subscript Unicode's character repertoire includes far more than the basic alphabet. Across its various blocks, you can find small capital letters, old-style numerals, superscript and subscript digits, and stylistic alternates for many characters. These enable text styling in plain text contexts — social media, messengers, README files — where standard formatting tags are unavailable. --- Small Capitals Small capitals are uppercase letters designed to match the visual weight of surrounding lowercase text. In typography, they are a distinct glyph; in Unicode, they are separate code points in the Phonetic Extensions block (U+1D00–U+1D7F). | Regular | Small Cap | Code Point | |---------|----------|-----------| | A | ᴀ | U+1D00 | | B | ʙ…
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