By Ethan Parker
Legendary and royal-themed pets practically ask for a regal name. The trap is turning the name into a puzzle: heavy letter replacements, three different symbols and extra spacing can make "Duke" unreadable. A cleaner approach is to keep the letters ordinary and let a frame carry the theme.
Most "crown" characters are borrowed from the chess pieces in Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols block: ♔ and ♚ are the white and black king, ♕ and ♛ the queens. Others that read as royal include the fleur-de-lis ⚜ and the 👑 emoji. Because they are ordinary characters rather than a font, they can be copied anywhere, but the way they are drawn depends on the device.
Symmetric frames look balanced in a name tag; tight frames save characters; a single leading symbol is the most restrained. Try each with your real name and look at it at the small size it will appear in game.
To see many variations at once, a crown font generator such as the one on Adopt Me Fonts shows the same text in tight, double, leading and trailing crown frames, and in versions that use the fleur-de-lis or diamonds, ready to copy. Its own notes rate the crown style as highly readable because the inner letters are left unchanged, which matches the approach above.
Disclosure: the linked Adopt Me Fonts site is one of our own projects. The references are independent and do not endorse it.