Unicode Text Tricks: Bold, Italic, Small Caps
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. --- How Unicode Text Styling Works The Unicode standard includes several ranges of "mathematical" characters that happen to look like styled variants of Latin letters: Mathematical Bold: 𝗔𝗕𝗖 (U+1D400–U+1D433) Mathematical Italic: 𝘈𝘉𝘊 (U+1D434–U+1D467) Mathematical Bold Italic: 𝑨𝑩𝑪 (U+1D468–U+1D49B) Mathematical Script: 𝒜ℬ𝒞 (U+1D49C–U+1D4CF) Mathematical Fraktur: 𝔄𝔅ℭ (U+1D504–U+1D537) These are separate Unicode characters, not…
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