Make bold text for places with no bold button, such as Instagram bios, X posts and YouTube comments. Bold serif and bold sans, numbers included.
Instagram, TikTok, X and Discord accept these characters in bios, display names, posts and messages. They are Unicode symbols, not a font, so a device without a matching font shows empty boxes. Screen readers may read each letter by its symbol name or skip it, so keep names, links and key info in plain text.
These styles are Unicode characters, so they only work as text. For logos, print and design work, use a font you can install.
Browse FontsType your text above and copy the Bold or Bold Sans line. The characters themselves are bold, so they stay bold in apps that strip formatting.
Bold has serifs, like Times. Bold Sans has none, like Helvetica, so it usually matches the text around it in apps better.
Yes. Both bold styles have bold digits, ๐ to ๐ and ๐ฌ to ๐ต.
Yes, LinkedIn posts and headlines accept it. Bold Unicode is not searchable as normal words, so keep the keywords people look for, like job titles, in plain text.
X counts each character outside its basic ranges as 2. Every bold letter is a separate Unicode character in that range, so a 10-letter bold word uses 20 of your 280.