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What Is Upside Down Text?

How flipped text works, which characters it uses, and where it displays reliably.

By Text Reverser TeamAugust 28, 20261 min read

How flipping works

Upside down text is not a font. It swaps each character for a different Unicode character that happens to look like the original rotated 180 degrees.

Where it works

Most social platforms render it fine because it is plain Unicode. A few characters have no flipped counterpart and stay as-is.

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