Copy and paste fonts

On Instagram the bio, the name on your profile, captions, comments and story text all take styled letters; on TikTok the name, the bio, captions and comments do. Usernames on both take only letters, numbers, periods and underscores.

A name in styled letters is harder to find: search may not match 𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓮 to Jane. Keep the name people search for in plain letters and style a word around it.

Display names, server nicknames and messages take styled letters; the username takes only small letters, numbers, periods and underscores.

Messages have Discord’s own formatting too: **bold**, *italic*, __underline__ and ~~strikethrough~~ become real bold, italic and lines, which screen readers read as words.

X takes styled letters in your name, your bio and your posts, not in your @handle. On X each styled letter counts as two of a post’s 280 characters, so a styled post holds about half as many letters.

Facebook takes them in posts and comments, not in a profile name: its name rules turn down symbols and unusual characters.

WhatsApp formats text itself: *bold*, _italic_, ~strikethrough~, and monospace between three backticks on each side. LinkedIn posts, YouTube comments and most other places that take text take styled letters too.

Where a letter shows as a box or a question mark, the device reading it has no font with that character. This page leaves a letter as it is rather than use one few devices have.

A font draws the letters you type and stays on your device: whoever reads your bio sees their own app’s font, never yours. These styles are not drawings of your letters but other characters. Unicode, the standard every phone and computer uses for text, has more than 150,000 of them, among them whole alphabets made for mathematics (bold, italic, script, Fraktur, double-struck, sans-serif and monospace letters), small capitals and raised letters from the phonetic alphabet, circled and squared letters, and the wide letters of Chinese and Japanese typing.

This page swaps each of your letters for its look-alike, so the style travels with the text: copy it anywhere text goes and it arrives styled. The other effects add marks to plain letters: a line through them or under them, or heaps of accents for glitch text.

For a logo, a poster, a shirt or anything printed, use real fonts: the font generator sets your words in free fonts and saves them as a PNG.

To a screen reader they are not letters: in tests published in 2025, NVDA, VoiceOver and Narrator skipped styled letters altogether, JAWS spelled each one out with its style, and only TalkBack read the words. Search may not read them as words either.

So keep them to a name or a line, never a whole bio or a post people need to read, and put anything that matters, a link, a date, a way to reach you, in plain letters. Where an app has its own bold or italic, as Discord and WhatsApp do, use that: it reads as words.