About Full-Width Text

Full-width text, also known as wide text, uses special Unicode characters designed for East Asian typography. In languages like Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, characters traditionally occupy a square space (full-width), unlike Latin characters which are typically narrower (half-width). Unicode includes full-width versions of Latin letters, numbers, and symbols to maintain consistent spacing when mixing scripts.

These wider characters create a distinctive aesthetic effect, making text appear more spaced out and prominent. The style has become popular in vaporwave aesthetics, retro designs, and social media for creating eye-catching headers and artistic text. Each full-width character takes up exactly twice the horizontal space of its normal counterpart, creating a uniform, geometric appearance that stands out in feeds and messages.