Originally published on my blog.

I just made a new Python module and CLI tool called fancify-text for transforming text into fancy unicode representations:

$ fancify-bold "hello world"
𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱
$ fancify-bolditalics "hello world"
𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙
$ fancify-upsidedown "hello world"
plɹoʍ ollǝɥ

I'm hoping to use it in an automatic tool for turning blog posts into twitter threads that I'm working on.

I stole the code

I can't say I wrote it - I basically stole it from @Secret-chest, and repackaged their code. They did all the hard work of finding the appropriate unicode characters was done by them.

I don't know if they mind. There's no license on the code so I'm treating it as public domain, but I contacted them to ask if they want control of the module. They're welcome to it if they want.

I just made it into a class, wrote a lot of boilerplate code around it for different function names and CLI entrypoints. And now you can use it.

Try it out

On the command-line:

$ pip3 install fancify-text
$ fancify-script "hello world"
𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝓅 𝓍𝓅𝓈𝓁𝒹

Or in Python:

In [1]: from fancify_text import blue

In [2]: print(blue("hello world"))
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