Unicode Text Tricks: Bold, Italic, Small Caps, and More Without Fonts
Style text without CSS using Unicode mathematical alphanumeric symbols. Bold, italic, monospace, script, and double-struck characters explained.
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Unicode Text Tricks: Bold, Italic, Strikethrough Without Formatting You cannot use Markdown or HTML bold tags in a LinkedIn post. Twitter does not render HTML formatting. Discord has its own Markdown syntax, but Twitter ignores it entirely. Yet you see bold and italic text in tweets, LinkedIn posts, and plain text bios all the time. The trick is Unicode. Mathematical Bold Characters To bold text without formatting tags, replace each letter with its Mathematical Bold equivalent: | Regular | Bold | Code Point Range | |---------|------|-----------------| | A | 𝗔 | U+1D400 | | B | 𝗕 | U+1D401 | | ... | ... | ... | | a | 𝗮 | U+1D41A | | 0 | 𝟬 | U+1D7EC | --- Mathematical Italic Characters Italic without HTML: --- Strikethrough Text Using Combining Characters Unicode's combining characters…
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