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Slashed Text Generator
A diagonal stroke through each letter. Reads more strongly than a plain strikethrough.
Converted right here in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is stored.
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Where these characters come from
The combining long solidus overlay was encoded to build negated mathematical operators: ≠ and ∉ are this stroke applied to = and ∈. Applied to ordinary letters it reads more aggressively than a plain strikethrough, which is why it is sometimes preferred for crossing out a word rather than a line.
What people use slashed text for
The diagonal stroke crosses out a word more aggressively than a horizontal line, which is why it gets used where strikethrough feels too mild — rejecting a statement, marking something as wrong rather than merely outdated. At longer lengths the strokes collide with descenders and the text becomes hard to read.
The complete slashed character set
| Capitals | A̸B̸C̸D̸E̸F̸G̸H̸I̸J̸K̸L̸M̸N̸O̸P̸Q̸R̸S̸T̸U̸V̸W̸X̸Y̸Z̸ |
|---|---|
| Lowercase | a̸b̸c̸d̸e̸f̸g̸h̸i̸j̸k̸l̸m̸n̸o̸p̸q̸r̸s̸t̸u̸v̸w̸x̸y̸z̸ |
| Digits | 0̸1̸2̸3̸4̸5̸6̸7̸8̸9̸ |
How to get slashed text
- Type or paste your words into the box above.
- Find the Slashed row — it is the first one — and press Copy.
- Paste it wherever you need it. The style travels with the text, because you are carrying different characters rather than formatting.
Nothing is installed and nothing is sent anywhere. If the text arrives plain instead of styled, the receiving field normalised it; that happens for a specific reason and no tool can prevent it.
The same thing goes by several names — slash through text — and they all describe this one technique. There is no settled term, because nobody named these character sets for this purpose in the first place.
Ready-made slashed examples
Five lines that cover what people usually need. Press Copy and paste straight into a bio or a name field.
- A name A̸l̸e̸x̸
- A bio line l̸i̸v̸i̸n̸g̸ ̸i̸n̸ ̸t̸h̸e̸ ̸m̸o̸m̸e̸n̸t̸
- A greeting w̸e̸l̸c̸o̸m̸e̸ ̸t̸o̸ ̸m̸y̸ ̸p̸a̸g̸e̸
- A short tagline p̸h̸o̸t̸o̸g̸r̸a̸p̸h̸e̸r̸ ̸·̸ ̸b̸e̸r̸l̸i̸n̸
- A single word v̸i̸b̸e̸s̸
Slashed vs Strikethrough
Strikethrough is horizontal and renders more reliably; Slashed is diagonal and more forceful. Slashed also collides with descenders in letters like g, j and y, which makes longer text noticeably harder to read than the same text struck through.
| Slashed | T̸h̸e̸ ̸q̸u̸i̸c̸k̸ ̸b̸r̸o̸w̸n̸ ̸f̸o̸x̸ |
|---|---|
| Strikethrough | T̶h̶e̶ ̶q̶u̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶x̶ |
Known problems with slashed text
The stroke collides with descenders in g, j, p, q and y, which makes longer text noticeably harder to read than the same text struck through horizontally.
These characters fail in four distinct ways across all styles — normalisation, missing font coverage, stripped combining marks and mixed-script rejection.
These are not fonts, they are separate Unicode characters. Screen readers often read them wrong or skip them entirely. What that means.
Common questions
- Is slashed text a real font?
- No. These are separate Unicode characters that happen to look slashed. That is why the look survives copy and paste: you are not copying formatting, you are copying different characters.
- Why does my text hit the character limit so quickly?
- Slashed adds a combining character after every letter, and both count against a field limit. Expect roughly half the visible length you would normally get.
- Will screen readers read this correctly?
- Usually not. Depending on the software the characters are spelled out with technical names or skipped entirely. Use the style for decoration, not for anything that has to be understood.