Text Truncator

In short Truncating text cuts it to a character or word limit at a clean word boundary and adds an ellipsis, which is the difference between a usable excerpt and one that ends mid-word. Cutting at exactly 155 characters gives you something ending "…the conve"; backing up to the last complete word gives "…the" and reads properly. The everyday use is meta descriptions and social previews, where the limits are real and the truncation will happen whether you do it or not — a meta description over about 155 characters is cut by the search engine, and it cuts wherever it lands. Doing it yourself means choosing where. The same applies to card titles, list previews and anything with a fixed height. Two details. The ellipsis counts toward the limit, so a 155-character budget gives about 152 characters of text plus the ellipsis, and this tool accounts for it. And a single ellipsis character is one character while three full stops are three, which matters when the budget is tight and is a reason to prefer the real character.