Subscript Generator

How it works

Subscript characters sit below the baseline, like the 2 in H₂O or the 1 in x₁. The generator replaces each character of your text with its Unicode subscript equivalent: the digits 0 to 9 become ₀ to ₉, the symbols plus, minus, equals and round brackets become ₊, ₋, ₌, ₍ and ₎, and the letters a, e, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v and x become their small forms such as ₐ, ₑ and ₓ. Because these are genuine characters and not styling, the result survives being pasted into plain-text fields where bold, italics and true rich-text subscript are stripped out. Characters without a subscript form are left exactly as you typed them, and the counters under the result show how many characters were converted and how many were left unchanged so you can see at a glance whether your text converted cleanly.

Worked example

The default text is x1 + x2. Every character there has a subscript form: x becomes ₓ, the digits become ₁ and ₂, and the plus sign becomes ₊, giving ₓ₁ ₊ ₓ₂ with all five non-space characters converted and none left unchanged. For a chemical formula you usually only want the numbers lowered: to write H₂O, convert just the 2 on its own to get ₂, then paste it between the H and the O. Try converting the word "subscript" itself and you will see the limitation in action: the letters s, u, r, i, p and t all convert, but b and c stay full size because Unicode has no subscript forms for them.

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