Text for conversations
Browse ASCII drawings, kaomoji, bio components and dividers for chats, profiles, captions and documentation.
The full archive
Symbol & style directory
186 copy-paste entries across 10 directories—text art, symbols, keyboard shortcuts, colors and CSS, each with its own page.
FEATURED Moving ASCII ArtLooping text animations you can watch and copy.Animated01 ASCII ArtCats, hearts, skulls and other small text drawings.36 entries02 Text Dividers & BordersLines, sparkle rows and borders to break up text.16 entries03 Special CharactersCheck marks, degrees, arrows and tiny stars.10 entries04 Text Faces & KaomojiJapanese-style emoticons built from characters.19 entries05 Alt Codes & Keyboard ShortcutsType symbols directly on Windows and Mac.27 entries06 Invisible & Whitespace CharactersBlank characters for empty names and spacing.14 entries07 Unicode Letter StylesBold, italic, circled and small-caps alphabets.14 entries08 Aesthetic Bio ComponentsReady-made blocks for Instagram and Discord bios.13 entries09 Color DirectoryHex, RGB and HSL values for popular shades.18 entries10 CSS Visual DirectoryShadows, gradients and text effects with live previews.19 entries
Built for useful copying
What you will find in the directory
Slangary combines expressive internet text with practical design references. Each entry has a clean value to copy, a plain-language explanation, realistic uses and notes about formatting or compatibility where they matter.
Characters with context
Find difficult keyboard symbols, Unicode details and platform notes instead of copying an unexplained glyph.
Values for design work
Copy colour formats and CSS effects, then adapt them to your layout, theme and accessibility requirements.
Start here
Which section do you need?
Ten directories is more than anyone wants to read through. Find the row that matches what you are actually trying to do.
- Make my bio or username look styled
- Unicode letters — bold, italic, script and small-caps alphabets that survive fields which strip formatting.
- Break a profile into sections
- Text dividers — one-line rules and borders, with notes on which ones need a monospace field.
- Add small decorative marks
- Bio symbols — ready-made sets of hearts, stars, arrows and brackets to drop between words.
- Type a character my keyboard lacks
- Alt codes — Windows and Mac shortcuts, plus the lookalike each symbol keeps getting confused with.
- Find the right punctuation or sign
- Symbols — check marks, dashes, arrows and currency, each with its code points.
- Leave a name or a message blank
- Invisible characters — blank characters that survive trimming, and how to tell whether one actually pasted.
- Draw something in plain text
- ASCII art — small text drawings, with notes on keeping the spacing intact when you paste them.
- Show a face or a reaction
- Kaomoji — upright text faces built from characters rather than from a single emoji image.
- Pick a colour for a design
- Colours — hex, RGB and HSL values with a contrast checker and a tint and shade scale.
- Style an element on a web page
- CSS visuals — shadows, gradients and text effects you can edit and preview live.
- Convert my own text into a style
- Fancy text generator — type once and get every alphabet at once, instead of copying a fixed sample.
- Animate text in a terminal or a bot
- Moving ASCII art — frame-by-frame animations with the timing and redraw notes needed to run them.
Common questions
About the directory
Will these characters work in my Instagram or Discord profile?
Most will, because everything here is plain text rather than formatting. The exceptions are worth knowing: some platforms strip blank characters out of usernames, fields that read Markdown can eat the backslashes and asterisks out of a text face, and a few reject non-Latin characters in a display name outright. Each entry says where its own value tends to fail.
Why does something I copied show as an empty box?
The character exists but the device has no font containing it. A code point is a number, not a picture — something still has to draw it. Older phones and stripped-down system fonts are the usual cause, and the less common the Unicode block a character comes from, the more likely a box is what you get.
Does styled text cause accessibility problems?
Yes, and it is worth knowing before you use it. Screen readers announce Unicode letter variants by their character names or skip them, so a styled word can be read out letter by letter or lost entirely, and search stops matching the plain spelling. Keep your actual name and anything a reader needs in ordinary letters, and treat styling as decoration.
Do I need to credit anything I copy from here?
No. These are Unicode characters and standard CSS declarations — the building blocks of text and styling rather than creative works belonging to anyone. Copy and use them freely.
Why does the same character look different on my phone and my laptop?
Because each platform ships its own fonts, and for emoji its own artwork. The underlying code point is identical everywhere and only the drawing changes, which is also why a symbol can look perfectly weighted in one place and far too thin in another.
A dependable workflow
How to use a Slangary entry
- 01 · FIND
Open the closest collection and compare the previews, names and descriptions before choosing.
- 02 · COPY
Use the entry's copy control to capture only the character, artwork, value or code you need.
- 03 · CHECK
Preview the result in its destination because fonts, spacing, themes and app rules can change its appearance.