About FlipType
FlipType started as a tiny weekend tool for writing joke captions and turned into a small, fast page that people keep coming back to. It does one thing: turn ordinary text into Unicode lookalikes that read upside down, mirrored or styled.
How it works
Unicode contains thousands of characters from phonetic alphabets, math symbols and old
scripts. Many of them happen to look like rotated Latin letters — ɐ for
a, ǝ for e, ɥ for h.
FlipType maps each character to its closest rotated twin and reverses the order, so the
whole line reads correctly when your screen is turned around.
| a → ɐ | e → ǝ | h → ɥ | r → ɹ | t → ʇ | y → ʎ |
| ! → ¡ | ? → ¿ | 7 → ㄥ | ( → ) | . → ˙ | & → ⅋ |
Who it is for
Anyone who wants a playful username, a puzzle for friends, a quick visual gag in a group chat, or a way to show how Unicode lookalikes can fool the eye. Teachers have told us they use it to start conversations about character encoding.
Contact
Found a character that flips badly or a style you would like to see? Suggestions are welcome — the character tables are updated a few times a year.