textfx

Text effects and transforms CLI - unicode fonts, leetspeak, zalgo, and more.

Transform plain text into fancy unicode, mocking spongebob case, binary, morse code, and 30+ other styles.

Installation

pip install textfx-cli

Usage

# Direct command for each transform
textfx bold "Hello World"       # 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝
textfx zalgo "spooky"           # s̸̰͝p̷͎̊o̵̳͝ǫ̵̛k̴̤͝y̷̹͑
textfx spongebob "whatever"     # wHaTeVeR
textfx leet "hacker"            # #4(<3|2

# Pipe from stdin
echo "transform me" | textfx vaporwave

# Preview all transforms
textfx preview "Test"

# List available transforms
textfx list

Available Transforms

Unicode Fonts

• bold - 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭
• italic - 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡
• bold-italic - 𝑩𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒄
• script - 𝒮𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉
• bold-script - 𝓑𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓽
• fraktur - 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯
• double-struck - 𝔻𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜
• monospace - 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎
• sans / sans-bold - Sans-serif variants
• circled - Ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ
• fullwidth - Ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ
• squared / negative-squared - 🅂🅀🅄🄰🅁🄴🄳
• small-caps - sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs
• parenthesized - ⒫⒜⒭⒠⒩⒯⒣⒠⒮⒤⒵⒠⒟

Effects

• reverse - Reverse text
• upside-down - Flip text upside down (ǝʇou ǝǝs)
• leet - |_337 5|>34|<
• spongebob - aLtErNaTiNg CaSe
• zalgo / zalgo-mild / zalgo-intense - C̴̢̛r̵̼̊e̸̲͑e̵̢̓p̸̱̉y̵̯̌ text
• morse - .-. --- ... .
• binary - 01001000 01101001
• strikethrough - S̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶
• underline / double-underline - U̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲
• vaporwave - Ａ　ｅ　ｓ　ｔ　ｈ　ｅ　ｔ　ｉ　ｃ
• scramble - Rnaodmly slcarembd wdros
• uwu - UwU-ify text owo
• pig-latin - Igpay atinlay

JSON Output

Add --json to any command for machine-readable output:

textfx bold "Hello" --json

{
  "input": "Hello",
  "transform": "bold",
  "output": "𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨"
}

Python API

from textfx import transform, list_transforms

# Apply a transform
result = transform("Hello", "bold")  # "𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨"

# List all transforms
transforms = list_transforms()

For AI Agents

See SKILL.md for agent-optimized documentation.

License

MIT