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TextArray vs FSymbols

Updated September 1, 2026

FSymbols is a library first and a generator second. Its own copy invites you to "Copy and paste cool fb symbols, text emoji characters and signs", to "use font generator to cʜᴀɴɢᴇ text style", and to take "text art pictures from symbols (also called ASCII art)". Most of the site is grids of characters you click to copy.

That is a genuinely different product from TextArray, which generates rather than catalogues. If what you need is one arrow, one star or one zodiac glyph, a browsable grid beats any tool — and TextArray has no such grid.

Where FSymbols is strong

  • A large browsable catalogue of symbols and emoticons, which is the right shape for "find me a character".
  • Ready-made ASCII text art, collected rather than generated.
  • Facebook-specific helpers, including name styling, that TextArray does not attempt.

Where the two overlap is the font generator, and there TextArray is the more capable side: each style is its own tool with options, the ASCII banner generator builds lettering from your own text rather than offering a pre-made picture, and the kaomoji and decoration tools compose faces and borders instead of listing them.

The rest is the usual split. TextArray runs everything in the browser tab and asserts it with a build check, has no ads and no account, and puts several hundred unrelated tools one keystroke away in the ⌘K palette. FSymbols states nothing about how its generators work, so this comparison claims nothing on that point either.

Official site — FSymbols

FAQ

Does TextArray have a symbol picker?
No browsable grid of characters, no. Its reference section has lookup tables (ASCII, Unicode blocks, emoji shortcodes), which answer "what is this character" rather than "give me a nice one".
Can TextArray make ASCII text art?
It generates it: the ASCII banner tool renders your own words as block lettering, and the box, tree and bar-chart tools draw structures. It does not ship a gallery of pictures to copy.
Which is better for a styled social handle?
TextArray, if you want to control the result — fold accents, pick a style, space the letters — and FSymbols if you would rather scroll a list until something looks right.

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