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Partial Upside Emphasis
Type below to convert your text into Partial Upside Emphasis, then copy it into any app.
Sample
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy ƃop
How Partial Upside Emphasis is produced
This style applies an algorithm rather than a lookup table. The string may be reversed, its characters substituted with approximate look-alikes, or transformed by a rule that depends on position within the text.
Because the substitutions are approximations rather than a designed alphabet, some letters map better than others and the result varies in quality across the alphabet. Preview the exact text you intend to use rather than judging from a sample.
Character chart
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 68ㄥ9ϛㄣƐᄅ⇂0
Where it works
About this family
Partial approaches flip or substitute only part of a string — the first word, alternate characters, or just the letters that happen to have a convincing inverted counterpart — and leave the rest legible. The faux-symbol styles go further and swap letters for punctuation and mathematical marks selected purely on appearance, with no relationship to the letter they stand in for. Neither is a writing system in any meaningful sense; both are shape-matching exercises against whatever Unicode happens to contain.
Before you use it
Because these borrow characters from blocks encoded for entirely unrelated purposes, they behave unpredictably anywhere the text is processed rather than merely displayed. A mathematical operator standing in for a letter can change where a line wraps, how a list sorts, and how a search index splits the string into words. Screen readers announce the character's real name — 'not sign', 'inverted question mark' — rather than the letter it is impersonating, so a decorated word becomes nonsense when read aloud. Keep these to short decorative fragments where nothing depends on a machine understanding the words.