X (Twitter) Fonts: Bold, Italic and Strikethrough Text
Most X posts are plain text with no bold or italic button, so these styles use special Unicode characters that look formatted. Type your text, tap a style and paste it into a post, a reply, your bio or your display name.
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How to use it
- 1Type the word or line you want to highlight.
- 2Tap a style (bold, italic, strikethrough, underline or typewriter) to copy it.
- 3Paste it into your post, reply, bio or display name on X, mixed with plain text where you like.
- 4Check the character counter before posting, since styled text fills it faster.
Use them to make a word or a heading stand out, not for whole posts. Most styled characters count as two toward X's length limits, search won't match styled words to normal ones, and screen readers may read them letter by letter.
Frequently asked questions
X weighs characters: standard Latin letters count as one, while most other Unicode characters, including these styled letters, count as two. A sentence written fully in bold can take roughly twice the room, so style a few key words and leave the rest plain.
Probably not through search. Styled letters are different characters, so search doesn't read "𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬" as "news". Keep hashtags, names and keywords plain and style something else, like an opening word or a label.
Yes, both accept Unicode, so a styled word or symbol works there. Your @handle is different: it only takes letters, numbers and underscores, so it stays plain.
It can be. Screen readers may announce each styled letter separately, sometimes as a math symbol, or skip it entirely, which makes a styled post hard to follow. Use it for emphasis, never for information people need, like dates or links.
Yes. The strikethrough style adds a line through each character, so it pastes anywhere. How it looks depends on the viewer's fonts: on some devices the line is continuous, on others it has small gaps between letters.