Small Text Generator

Legitimate technical notation, repurposed. The superscript letters were encoded for phonetic transcription (linguists mark modified sounds with raised letters), the subscripts for chemistry and math (H₂O, x₁), and small caps for linguistic and typographic conventions. Social media discovered they make text look small anywhere formatting is stripped — a use Unicode's designers never intended but which works precisely because the characters are real.

Because Unicode only encoded the subscripts that technical notation actually needed — vowels and common indices like ₙ, ₓ, ₜ — and proposals to complete the alphabet 'for aesthetics' get rejected on principle. So b, c, d, f, g, q, w, y, and z simply don't exist as subscripts. This generator leaves them as normal characters rather than substituting misleading lookalikes, which means mixed-height output for some words: the honest limitation of the medium.

CSS small-caps is styling applied to normal letters — it vanishes the moment text is copied into a plain-text field. These are distinct Unicode characters (ᴀ is U+1D00, a Latin letter in its own right) that keep their appearance everywhere text survives. The trade: real small caps travel anywhere but can't be searched as their plain equivalents and read out oddly in screen readers; CSS small caps behave perfectly but only exist where you control the styling.

Because the small styles only exist in one case each: superscript and subscript blocks have no capital set worth using, and small caps are, definitionally, lowercase letters shaped like capitals. Feeding 'HELLO' through unchanged would produce nothing different, so input is normalized to lowercase before mapping. If you want mixed emphasis, combine outputs manually — small caps for a word, superscript for an aside — which is exactly how the aesthetic accounts use them.