Special characters
Special characters: 22 Unicode styles to try, copied in one click and pasted anywhere — bio, post, username or message.
Tip: some styles break screen readers — best kept for titles and hooks.
Substitute alphabets The whole letter is swapped — accepted everywhere
Bold 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Italic 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Bold italic 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Bold sans-serif 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Italic sans-serif 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Bold italic sans-serif 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Script 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Bold script 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Fraktur 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Bold fraktur 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Double-struck 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Monospace 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Enclosed characters Circled or boxed letters, limited in number
Bubble 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Black bubble 1/7 Works on 1 of 7 platforms
Square 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Black square 1/7 Works on 1 of 7 platforms
Overlays A combining mark sits on your own letters
Strikethrough 4/7 Works on 4 of 7 platforms
Underline 4/7 Works on 4 of 7 platforms
Slashthrough 4/7 Works on 4 of 7 platforms
Special cases Full width, small caps, upside-down text
Small caps 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Fullwidth (vaporwave) 7/7 Works on 7 of 7 platforms
Upside down 6/7 Works on 6 of 7 platforms
Special characters do not transform your text: they sit alongside it. Arrows, stars, frames, currency and maths signs are characters in their own right, dropped between words to punctuate, separate or decorate.
Worth knowing
- A repeated separator between two ideas structures a bio better than a line break, which often gets lost when pasting.
- Maths signs work as decoration too: ≠ and ∞ are covered by every system font.
- Too many symbols in a row turn the line into noise, on screen and for a screen reader alike.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from emoji?
- An emoji is rendered in colour by a dedicated font and takes up the space of an image. These symbols are typographic: they follow the colour and size of surrounding text and sit inside the line.
- How do I insert a symbol inside a word?
- Copy the symbol, place the cursor where you want it and paste. It inserts like any other character, with no automatic space before or after.