Instantly translate standard A-Z characters into hundreds of artistic Unicode letter designs.
Under the hood, each base style is a lookup table: 26 lower-case letters, 26 capitals, and for a few styles ten digits. Type a single letter and you can see exactly what each table maps it to, which is useful when you want one fancy initial (a monogram, a decorated first letter for a caption) rather than a whole word. The mathematical alphabets are complete, so every letter has a form. The enclosed alphabets are complete for letters but stop at punctuation. Small caps have 25 forms and pass q through. The exotic spoofs (Greek, Cyrillic, currency) are the most uneven, because they only substitute where a convincing look-alike exists.
Because the output is plain text, you can combine letters from different styles by copying one letter at a time and assembling them, or by typing a word, copying it in one style, and replacing individual characters. A common pattern is a double-struck or blackletter initial with the rest of the word in small caps. It works, with one caution: the more alphabets you mix, the more chances one of them falls back on someone's device, and mixed fallback looks broken in a way a single fallen-back style does not. Two alphabets in a word is a design choice; four is a coin toss.
Yes. Type the single letter, pick a style, copy. The output is exactly one character, or two if the style is a surrogate pair, and it pastes as that one letter.
In sans-serif alphabets (mathematical sans, sans bold, monospace) I and l are hard to tell apart, exactly as in the plain sans-serif fonts they imitate. Serif bold, script and fraktur keep them distinct.
No. The mathematical blocks are unaccented A to Z only. An é or ñ passes through in plain form. For accented text, choose an effect style (strikethrough, underline, interleave) which works on any base character.