A network name is one of the few pieces of text your neighbours read regularly, which is why people have fun with it.
It is also the one place on this site with a genuinely technical limit, and it is not the one people expect.
The limit is bytes, not characters
A network name can be up to 32 bytes. Plain English letters use one byte each, so that reads as 32 characters.
Styled characters are a different story. Most of these sit outside the basic range and use four bytes each, so a styled name can hit the limit after eight visible letters.
Some routers count characters instead and then truncate at save, which is why a styled name sometimes appears cut off on phones.
What to check before you save
- Older devices, printers, and smart home gadgets often fail to connect to networks with unusual characters in the name.
- A guest network is a safer place to experiment than the main one everything is already joined to.
- Write down the exact name before you change it, since every device has to be reconnected afterwards.
- Simple brackets or small caps get you a distinctive name with much less risk than a heavy decorative style.
Tip: I renamed a home network with a decorative style and the printer and the smart plugs could not rejoin at all, while the phones were fine. Setting it back meant reconnecting everything twice, which was an evening I did not get back.
Related tools: Fancy Text Symbols Generator , Font Copy Paste and Unicode Fonts Generator .
This page styles text you already have. If you are still working out the name itself, a nickname generator covers that side, and it is easier to pick the words first and style them once at the end.