Double Strike Text Generator

The double strikethrough text generator applies the strike mark twice to every letter and digit (d̶̶o̶̶u̶̶b̶̶l̶̶e̶̶) for text that reads as struck out rather than merely edited. Copy and paste it into changelogs, deprecation notices, price comparisons and dramatic edits — and read on for what the second mark does and does not guarantee.

Emphatic Deletion with the Double Strikethrough Text Generator

Sometimes deletion needs to be unmistakable rather than polite. Strikethrough is the typographic convention for content that has been removed or deprecated but still needs to be read, and a single line can be easy to miss at small sizes. This page applies the combining stroke overlay twice.

The mark is U+0336 combining long stroke overlay, and this map appends it twice to every letter and digit: removed becomes r̶̶e̶̶m̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶d̶̶. Characters outside that set are left alone, so $99 becomes $9̶̶9̶̶ with the currency sign untouched.

The text underneath stays readable either way, which is the point in contexts where the crossed-out content still matters — an original price beside a sale price, a deprecated method beside its replacement. What the second mark adds visually depends on the renderer, and that is worth understanding before you choose this page over Strike.

Professional Uses for Heavy Deletion Text

• Changelog deprecations: Mark "f̶̶e̶̶a̶̶t̶̶u̶̶r̶̶e̶̶ r̶̶e̶̶m̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶d̶̶" for unmistakable software updates
• Price comparisons: only the digits strike — $1̶̶9̶̶9̶̶ → $99, because the map holds letters and digits and nothing else
• Dramatic corrections: Style "t̶̶e̶̶r̶̶r̶̶i̶̶b̶̶l̶̶e̶̶ amazing" for humorous self-edits
• Documentation updates: Mark "d̶̶e̶̶p̶̶r̶̶e̶̶c̶̶a̶̶t̶̶e̶̶d̶̶" APIs and methods in technical docs
• Menu and product removals: Show "s̶̶o̶̶l̶̶d̶̶ o̶̶u̶̶t̶̶" items that are no longer available
• Before/after comparisons: b̶̶e̶̶f̶̶o̶̶r̶̶e̶̶ → after, with the arrow typed rather than generated
• Social media humor: Create "t̶̶o̶̶t̶̶a̶̶l̶̶l̶̶y̶̶ f̶̶i̶̶n̶̶e̶̶" for sarcastic edits
• GitHub and code reviews: version notes come out as r̶̶e̶̶m̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶d̶̶ i̶̶n̶̶ v̶̶2̶̶.0̶̶ — the dot in a version number breaks the line

Double Strike Text Examples Ready to Copy

• Prices: $1̶̶9̶̶9̶̶ | $5̶̶0̶̶ | $2̶̶9̶̶9̶̶ — the currency sign is not part of the map, so it stays upright̶̶9̶̶9̶̶ | $5̶̶0̶̶ | $2̶̶9̶̶9̶̶ — a price slash keeps its currency sign upright, because the sign is not part of the map
• Status: "removed" → "r̶̶e̶̶m̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶d̶̶" | "deleted" → "d̶̶e̶̶l̶̶e̶̶t̶̶e̶̶d̶̶"
• Humor: "fine" → "f̶̶i̶̶n̶̶e̶̶" | "good idea" → "g̶̶o̶̶o̶̶d̶̶ i̶̶d̶̶e̶̶a̶̶"
• Tech: "deprecated" → "d̶̶e̶̶p̶̶r̶̶e̶̶c̶̶a̶̶t̶̶e̶̶d̶̶" | "legacy" → "l̶̶e̶̶g̶̶a̶̶c̶̶y̶̶"
• Availability: "sold out" → "s̶̶o̶̶l̶̶d̶̶ o̶̶u̶̶t̶̶" | "unavailable" → "u̶̶n̶̶a̶̶v̶̶a̶̶i̶̶l̶̶a̶̶b̶̶l̶̶e̶̶"

How to Create Double Strikethrough Text

Step 1 - Type: Enter the word, phrase, or content you want to strike through emphatically. The double strikethrough generator works with letters A-Z, a-z, and digits 0-9.

Step 2 - Transform: The tool applies two combining stroke overlays to each character, so "removed" becomes "r̶̶e̶̶m̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶d̶̶" with heavy double lines.

Step 3 - Copy: Click the copy button to grab your double struck text—ready for emphatic deletion.

Step 4 - Paste: Use it anywhere—Discord, GitHub, Twitter, changelogs, or any platform. The double strikethrough renders on most modern systems.

Which Toolbar Options Work With Double Strike

The style already telegraphs maximum emphasis, so most controls can only dilute it. One is an exception, and it is the one this page used to tell you to avoid.

• Separator is the most useful control here, because the space is not struck. A phrase arrives with a visible gap in the rule at every word boundary: s̶̶o̶̶l̶̶d̶̶ o̶̶u̶̶t̶̶. The separator runs on the finished text and replaces those gaps, so it is the only way to close them. No Space joins the words outright for one unbroken rule — s̶̶o̶̶l̶̶d̶̶o̶̶u̶̶t̶̶ — and Dash fills the gap at roughly strike height instead: s̶̶o̶̶l̶̶d̶̶–o̶̶u̶̶t̶̶. Cross is the × the page used to recommend under the wrong control; it lives here, among the 23 separators.

꒰꒱ Wrap has no double-bracket pair — ⟦ ⟧ is in neither the 57 prefixes nor the 57 suffixes. »»» … ««« points inward and suits a decisive register; ■□■□ … □■□■ is the blockier option.

✦ Symbol is where the old advice pointed for an end cap, and the picker holds neither ✗ nor ×. It holds emoji, and emoji is the register problem: ❤️ beside a struck word turns firmly cancelled into cute cancellation. ❋ Pattern does the same with florals.

Aa Mix Font removes the effect outright. It restyles your selection in the input, and a restyled letter is no longer a plain letter, so it falls outside the map and comes back unstruck.

⏰ Recent keeps the symbols and patterns from last time, and 🖼 Export Image saves the line as PNG, JPG or WebP — the safe option when the destination might not render stacked marks at all.

Which Strikethrough Style to Use

Three pages here cut through text, and they differ in mark rather than in weight:

• Strike (s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶): Single line through text—subtle, professional, standard for corrections and edits. Best for: gentle corrections, casual edits, readable deletions
• Double Strike (s̶̶t̶̶r̶̶i̶̶k̶̶e̶̶): the same mark twice. Whether that reads as one line or two is decided by the renderer, not by the text — see below
• Tilde Strike (s̴t̴r̴i̴k̴e̴): Wavy line through text—playful, informal, softer tone. Best for: casual humor, ironic corrections
• Readability preserved: Double Strike is still readable—the text underneath remains visible, which is important for contexts like price comparisons where you want people to see both values
• Where the rule breaks: spaces and punctuation sit outside the map, so the line stops at every gap unless you set a separator

The Second Mark Is the Same Mark

This is the thing to understand before choosing between this page and Strike, and the page used to overstate it.

The generator appends U+0336, the combining long stroke overlay, twice. Not two different marks — the same one, repeated. Unicode has no double-stroke overlay to reach for; it offers a short overlay and a long one, and each draws a single rule.

Two identical overlays are positioned by the same rule, so a renderer that follows that rule draws them in the same place and you see one line. Some renderers offset a repeated mark slightly, and you see a thicker or doubled rule instead. Which one you get is decided by the font and the platform, not by the text you copied — the same string can look emphatic in one app and indistinguishable from single strike in the next.

What is certain either way is the cost: three code points per character against two for single Strike. Where the marks collapse, that is fifty per cent more characters for no visible difference. Worth pasting once into the place you actually intend to use before committing to it.

What the Map Actually Covers

Letters and digits, and nothing else. All 52 letters and all ten digits take the marks; every other character passes through untouched, including the space.

That matters more than it sounds, because the characters people most want struck are often the ones outside the map. A price keeps its currency sign upright — $1̶̶9̶̶9̶̶, not a struck $. A version number keeps its dot: v̶̶2̶̶.0̶̶. Punctuation stands clean after the struck word.

The space is the one worth planning around. Because it passes through unstruck, the rule stops at every word boundary — s̶̶o̶̶l̶̶d̶̶ o̶̶u̶̶t̶̶ is two struck words rather than one struck phrase. The Separator control is the fix, and the section above says which settings close the gap.

What It Costs to Paste

Every letter and digit becomes three code points, so c̶̶a̶̶n̶̶c̶̶e̶̶l̶̶l̶̶e̶̶d̶̶ is nine characters to a reader and twenty-seven to a character counter. A 32-character username holds ten struck letters and nothing else.

Each mark is two UTF-8 bytes, so a struck letter costs five bytes against one plain: r̶̶e̶̶m̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶d̶̶ travels as 35 bytes where removed takes 7. Unlike marks that sit above a letter, these compose into nothing — there is no precomposed struck alphabet, so normalisation leaves the length exactly where it is.

And r̶̶e̶̶m̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶d̶̶ is not the string removed. Search, filters and mention lookups will not match it — useful when you want a word visible but not indexed, and a problem when you forget.

Unicode Strikethrough vs Native Formatting

Word has genuine double strikethrough built in, and if you are writing in Word you should use it rather than this tool. It sits in the Font dialog — Home → the small arrow beside Font, or Ctrl+D — as a checkbox next to the single-strikethrough one. That is real formatting: the letters stay ordinary letters, the document remains searchable, and it prints as the designer of the typeface intended.

What this page produces is different in kind. The line is not a format applied to a letter — it is a second character riding along with it, so the strike travels with the text into any field that accepts plain text at all. That is the whole reason to use it, and also the whole reason not to.

CSS is the one place a genuine double line-through is available on demand, and it is worth knowing about because it is what this page can only approximate. Everywhere else, formatting stops at a single line, and every place with no formatting at all is where a copy-and-paste generator earns its keep. If your destination has a strikethrough button, the button is better. If it has none, this is the only route.

Does It Work on Discord and GitHub?

It pastes and displays, yes — but both already give you single strikethrough with ~~text~~, which is cleaner and searchable. The case for characters there is narrow: a Discord nickname or a GitHub display name takes no markdown, so a struck name has to be built from characters.

A Note on Search and Privacy

Two consequences of the text being characters rather than formatting. Search will not find it: c̶̶a̶̶n̶̶c̶̶e̶̶l̶̶l̶̶e̶̶d̶̶ does not match a search for cancelled, which is occasionally the point and more often a trap in a document you will need to search later. And the transformation happens in your browser — the text you type is never sent anywhere, because the whole tool is a lookup table running on the page.

More Deletion and Markup Styles

For related options, try Strike for the single line of d̶e̶l̶e̶t̶i̶o̶n̶, Tilde Strike for the wavier d̴e̴l̴e̴t̴i̴o̴n̴, Underline for e̲m̲p̲h̲a̲s̲i̲s̲ that adds rather than removes, Bold for 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬, or Italic for a slant instead of a line.