Letter U in Different Fonts

Every styled version of U below is ordinary Unicode, not a font file. That is why it pastes into an Instagram bio, a Discord name or a TikTok caption with nothing installed — and also why some styles are missing letters entirely.

• 𝐮Bold
• 𝑢Italic
• 𝒖Bold Italic
• 𝓊Cursive Script
• 𝓾Bold Cursive
• 𝔲Gothic (Fraktur)
• 𝖚Bold Gothic
• 𝕦Double-Struck
• 𝗎Sans-Serif
• 𝘂Sans-Serif Bold
• 𝘶Sans-Serif Italic
• 𝙪Sans Bold Italic
• 𝚞Monospace / Code
• ｕWide (Fullwidth)
• ⓤCircle Bubble
• 🅤Circle Filled
• 🅄Square Outline
• 🆄Square Filled
• ⒰Parenthesized
• ᵘSuperscript
• ᵤSubscript
• ᴜSmall Caps / Tiny Text
• nUpside Down
• цSymbol Style
• u̶Strikethrough
• u̲Underline
• u̳Double Underline
• u̅Overline
• u̷Slashed
• ǘ̷͓̗ͤGlitch (Light)
• u̶̙̠̬̞͆ͬ̒ͪ͘Glitch (Cursed)
• u̢͙̘̼̘̹͓̤̬̎̏͑ͮ̇ͭͪͩ͘͜͞Glitch (Chaos)

Which styles have no U

32 of our 33 styles can render U. The one that does not is Mirror Text. That alphabet was never completed in Unicode, so a generator that claims to offer them will hand back a plain u sitting in the middle of otherwise styled text — the single most common way a styled name ends up looking broken.

If you are styling a word that starts with U, check it in the generator above before you paste it. A style that looks right for one letter can break on the next.

Every U in Unicode, with codepoints

The letter U is drawn from 7 different Unicode blocks, mostly Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. Codepoints are listed so you can use them directly in code.

Where U breaks

Styled letters are real characters, so whether they survive depends on the platform, not on us. Instagram accepts almost all of them in a bio but strips some from a display name. Discord renders them in messages and nicknames, though a server with a name-format rule may reject them. Most search boxes will not match them, so a username in 𝐮 form is not findable by typing u.

Screen readers are the case worth taking seriously: a mathematical-alphanumeric U may be read out as "mathematical bold small u" or skipped. Fine for a decorative caption, poor for anything that has to be read.