Does Fancy Text Remove My Accents?

It used to: style café and the é went plain. Not anymore — this generator styles the base letter and reattaches your accent, so the vast majority of styles keep á, ñ and ữ. Here's what changed, and the styles that still can't.

Short answer

Not anymore, for the vast majority of styles. Fancy text never actually deleted your accents — older tools just couldn't restyle them, because Unicode has no styled version of á, ñ, ü or ữ, so the accented letter was passed through plain while its neighbours transformed. This generator gets around that: it splits the accented letter into a base letter plus its combining mark, styles the base, and puts the mark back on top. So bold Señor now comes out 𝗦𝗲𝗻̃𝗼𝗿 — the ñ styled too. Roughly 77 of the 112 styles keep every accent this way, including every bold, italic, script and gothic variant. The holdouts are the upside-down styles, a set of novelty styles that use exotic alphabets (bubble circles, fullwidth, katakana…), and one-piece letters like đ, ø, ß that have no mark to lift off.

In one line: the core styles now keep á/ñ/ữ styled · the exceptions are upside-down styles, novelty exotic-alphabet styles, and one-piece letters (đ ø ß ł ı).
What's happening

How the accent gets styled anyway

When you choose "bold," you're not applying formatting — you're replacing each letter with a different Unicode character that looks bold. The bold 𝗮 is its own code point, and that math region of Unicode only ever defined styled forms of the 26 letters and 10 digits. There is no bold é or ñ to swap in.

The trick is that Unicode stores most accented letters as a base letter plus a separate combining mark. Split "ñ" apart (via NFD normalization) and you get a plain "n" and a combining tilde. The generator styles the "n" — which does have a bold twin — and then re-appends your original tilde on top. The result is a bold "n" wearing its tilde: a fully styled ñ.

Bold "Señor"
𝗦𝗲𝗻̃𝗼𝗿
every letter bold, ñ included — a bold "n" with your tilde on top
The fix

Which styles keep accents — and the few that don't

Almost all of them keep your accents now. The exceptions are specific and named.

Keeps every accent (77 styles)

Every core typography style — the letter-swap styles now reattach the mark, and the mark/symbol styles never touched the letter to begin with:

  • Bold, Italic, Script/Cursive, Fraktur, Double-struck, Small Caps, Monospace, Superscript
  • Strikethrough, Underline, Slash, Wavy, and symbol word-wraps

𝗩𝗶𝗲̣̂𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝗺  ·  𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲́

The exceptions

Three groups still can't fully style an accented letter:

  • Upside-down / flip styles — they flip plain ASCII only, so an accented letter rides along unflipped
  • Novelty exotic-alphabet styles (bubble circles, fullwidth, katakana, bopomofo, squared, emoji-block, runic, Canadian syllabics) — their glyph blocks can't display a reattached mark, so they keep the plain accent by design
  • One-piece letters (đ, ø, ß, ł, ı) — atomic characters with no mark to reattach; they style as their base shape

ɹoñǝS  ·  đ → 𝗱

Quick test: if you're using one of the core typography styles (bold, italic, script, gothic…), your accents will style. The exceptions are the upside-down and novelty exotic-alphabet styles, plus the one-piece letters — đ, ø, ß and kin — which have no accent to lift off.

The hard case

Vietnamese and the letter đ

Vietnamese stacks a vowel mark and a tone mark on nearly every syllable, so it's the toughest test — and it now styles cleanly, every mark reattached (bold Việt Nam𝗩𝗶𝗲̣̂𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝗺). The one holdout is đ / Đ: it's its own Unicode letter, not a "d" with a mark, so it has no accent to lift off and converts to a plain styled "d" in every style.

Vietnamese users still often decorate a plain name with symbols ("kí tự đặc biệt") or drop the tone marks first (bỏ dấu) — but now that's for game length caps and platform rules, not because the font can't hold the marks. For the full breakdown — including how it renders across devices — see the guide on accents & diacritics in fancy fonts.

Compare styles with your own accented text

Type your text once and see every style side by side — most of them keep your accents, and you can spot the upside-down and novelty styles that don't.

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Want the deeper version? The guide on fancy fonts & accents covers device-by-device rendering and the Vietnamese fix, the accent marks & diacritics library is the reference for combining marks, and why fonts show as boxes explains the related tofu problem.