YouTube Fonts: Stand Out in Comments and Descriptions
Type your text, pick a style and paste it into a YouTube comment, a video description, a channel post or your channel name. Sans-serif bold, small caps and black squares work well for section labels and channel branding.
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How to use it
1Type a label, name or line you want to highlight.
2Tap a style to copy it.
3Paste it into a comment, your video description or a channel post. To change your channel name, go to Customization in YouTube Studio.
4Preview it on desktop and in the mobile app before publishing.
Keep the searchable parts plain. YouTube search doesn't match styled letters to normal words, so a title written entirely in a fancy font can hide your video from people looking for it. Your @handle stays plain too: it only allows letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens and periods.
Frequently asked questions
Sparingly. Search matches normal letters, so styled keywords won't help anyone find your video. If you want a styled touch, use it on a short label or symbol and keep the main keywords plain.
It does: wrap text in *asterisks* for bold, _underscores_ for italic and -hyphens- for strikethrough. Unicode styles help where those markers don't work, such as descriptions and channel names, or for looks the markers can't make.
Your channel name generally accepts Unicode, so most styles work there. Your @handle doesn't: it's limited to letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens and periods. Keep the channel name recognizable so viewers can still search for it.
Better not. YouTube only turns plain timestamps like 1:23 into clickable chapters and links, so styled digits break them. Screen readers can also stumble over styled characters, so keep links, timestamps and key info plain and style your headings instead.
Their device lacks glyphs for some rarer characters. Bold and sans-serif styles are the safest. A few black-square letters (A, B, O and P) can also show up as red emoji on some phones.