Upside Down Text Generator

Nothing is rotated. Each character is swapped for a different Unicode character that resembles it turned 180 degrees - a lowercase e becomes ǝ (U+01DD, a Latin turned e from African orthographies), an a becomes ɐ, and so on. The string is then reversed so it reads correctly upside down.

The characters come from wherever a suitable shape existed: IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, mathematical symbols and various regional alphabets. There was never a coordinated effort to provide a rotated Latin alphabet, so coverage is uneven and some letters have no good match at all.

Both steps are required. Substituting without reversing gives text that is upside down but reads backwards; reversing without substituting gives readable-but-backwards text. Only doing both produces something that reads normally when the screen is turned.

Capital letters are poorly served - many have no plausible rotated form, so most generators leave them or fall back to lowercase. Accented characters, most punctuation and anything non-Latin generally pass through unchanged.

Because the output is a mix of scripts, some fonts render it unevenly, with individual characters sitting at different weights or baselines. It also defeats search and screen readers completely, so it belongs in a joke message rather than a nickname you expect people to find.

The tool maps each letter, digit and punctuation mark to a unicode character that looks like it was rotated 180 degrees, then reverses the order so the result reads in the same left-to-right direction but with every glyph upside down.

It works best with Latin letters and common symbols. Cyrillic, Arabic and CJK characters are left unchanged since they lack standard flipped counterparts.

Upside down text is a staple of prank messages and puzzle servers. Some communities use it as a light form of obfuscation, while others just enjoy the novelty of replying to someone with their own message flipped back at them.