Bubble text generator

Style	Example	Letters available
Circled	ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ / ⒷⓊⒷⒷⓁⒺ	capitals and lowercase
Negative circled	🅑🅤🅑🅑🅛🅔	capitals only
Parenthesized	⒝⒰⒝⒝⒧⒠	lowercase only
Squared	🄱🅄🄱🄱🄻🄴	capitals only
Negative squared	🅱🆄🅱🅱🅻🅴	capitals only

The outlined circled letters are the classic "bubble text" and the most widely supported: they come from the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, which has been in Unicode since its first versions. The filled and squared sets live in a newer supplement block, so they are more likely to appear as empty boxes on an old phone or computer. Because three of the five sets exist only as capitals, they suit short all-caps words like a name, OPEN or SALE.

A few negative squared letters do double duty as emoji. 🅰 and 🅱 are the blood type A and B emoji, 🅾 stands for blood type O, and 🅿 is the parking sign. Many phones therefore draw these four as colorful emoji tiles, while the other letters of the same word stay black-and-white. A word like 🅿🅰🆁🅺 can end up with two colored tiles followed by two plain black ones.

There is no switch that fixes this reliably across apps, so if a uniform look matters, use negative circled or squared letters instead, or pick a word without A, B, O and P.

If you came here to draw puffy bubble letters for a poster, a birthday sign or a school project, this tool won't trace outlines for you. It produces text characters for screens. For printed work, a rounded display font in a design or poster app, or hand lettering, gives you real puffy shapes, and you can use the circled letters here as a quick mock-up of the wording.

Online, bubble text works best for short, playful touches: a gamer tag, a highlight cover label, a story caption or a nickname in a group chat.

Each style has its own compatibility marks for Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Facebook and X, showing whether it should work or may break (empty boxes on some devices, or text the app trims). The marks are estimates based on each character's Unicode version and the fonts in common phones, and a platform can change its handling at any time.

In practice, outlined circled letters are the safe pick; filled and squared styles are fine on recent phones but riskier for followers on older ones. None of them can go into an @username, and Facebook refuses them in your profile name, although your posts can use them.

Every bubble letter has a long official name, and screen readers may announce it in full: "circled latin small letter b, circled latin small letter u" and so on, or skip the word entirely. Turn on How a screen reader may hear it to read the names of your first characters before you post. Search also won't connect ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ with bubble, so don't put your brand name, contact details or hashtags in bubbles.

Circled and squared letters are wider than normal text, so a long phrase can wrap awkwardly on a phone; one or two words look best. Accented letters have no circled form; the tool can keep the accent as a combining mark above the bubble or leave the letter plain. The counter shows characters and UTF-16 code units, since the filled and squared letters use two units each. Your text stays in your browser the whole time.