You see it everywhere on social media. Someone posts a message in Instagram, and their name or caption is written in unusual, decorative lettering. The text looks different from the normal Arial or Helvetica that everyone else uses. It might be cursive, gothic, tiny, or somehow "glitched." Many people assume the person changed their actual font using their phone's settings. This is a common misconception. What actually happened is they used a font generator to transform their text using Unicode—a universal character encoding system that includes thousands of decorative variants of regular letters. This is not technically a font in the traditional sense. The user's phone or website still displays text using whatever font is installed. What the generator does is replace regular letters with visually distinct Unicode characters that look like different styles. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore how this "trick" actually works, what Unicode is, and ho...