Character Counter

A character counter is a tool that reports how many characters a piece of text contains, usually offering one total that includes spaces and one that excludes them. Xevon Tools' Character Counter runs that calculation live in your browser and adds budget tracking for the limits writers hit most: Twitter's 280-character post, the roughly 60-character page title Google shows before truncating, the roughly 160-character meta description, and the 160-character SMS segment. The dual with-spaces and without-spaces display exists because platforms genuinely disagree. SMS gateways and social networks count every space, while academic and some writing tools quote a 'characters excluding spaces' figure, and quoting the wrong one can put you over a hard cap. One important gotcha is Unicode. This tool counts each visible character as one, but an emoji or certain accented and non-Latin characters can occupy two or more units in a platform's own counter because of how they are encoded as UTF-16 code units or UTF-8 bytes. When you are within a handful of characters of a strict limit, leave a little slack rather than trusting an exact match. The platform budgets here are practical thresholds, not promises: Twitter treats links and some symbols specially, and Google actually measures search snippets by pixel width rather than a clean character count, so a title of all wide capitals truncates sooner than one of narrow letters. Use the tool to tighten a meta description, keep a caption under the cap, trim a title so it is not cut off in results, or fit a marketing text into one SMS segment, all without your draft ever leaving the page.