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X has no formatting buttons for regular posts. Type your text and copy it back in bold, italic, monospace, script, strikethrough or underline, built from Unicode characters.
- Bold Β· 58 characters on Xππ«π’ππ π¨π§ππ, π©π¨π¬π ππ―ππ«π²π°π‘ππ«π π¨π§ π
- Italic Β· 58 characters on Xππππ‘π ππππ, πππ π‘ ππ£πππ¦π€βπππ ππ π
- Bold italic Β· 58 characters on XπΎππππ ππππ, ππππ ππππππππππ ππ πΏ
- Monospace Β· 58 characters on Xπππππ ππππ, ππππ πππππ’π ππππ ππ π
- Script Β· 58 characters on Xπ²ππΎπβ― β΄ππΈβ―, π β΄ππ β―πβ―ππππ½β―πβ― β΄π π³
- Strikethrough Β· 64 characters on XWΜΆrΜΆiΜΆtΜΆeΜΆ ΜΆoΜΆnΜΆcΜΆeΜΆ,ΜΆ ΜΆpΜΆoΜΆsΜΆtΜΆ ΜΆeΜΆvΜΆeΜΆrΜΆyΜΆwΜΆhΜΆeΜΆrΜΆeΜΆ ΜΆoΜΆnΜΆ ΜΆXΜΆ
- Underline Β· 64 characters on XWΜ²rΜ²iΜ²tΜ²eΜ² Μ²oΜ²nΜ²cΜ²eΜ²,Μ² Μ²pΜ²oΜ²sΜ²tΜ² Μ²eΜ²vΜ²eΜ²rΜ²yΜ²wΜ²hΜ²eΜ²rΜ²eΜ² Μ²oΜ²nΜ² Μ²XΜ²
These are math and combining characters, not real formatting. Screen readers may read them letter by letter or skip them, and search on X may not match them. Use them for a word or two, never for a whole post.
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Type the word or phrase you want to style.
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Find the style you want in the list. Each shows what it costs in X characters.
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Copy it and paste it into your post, reply or bio.
How Unicode text styles work
These styles aren't formatting. Unicode includes a set of mathematical letters, bold A to Z, italic A to Z and so on, meant for equations. This tool swaps each letter of your text for its styled twin, so the style travels anywhere plain text does: posts, replies, bios and display names.
Strikethrough and underline work differently. They add a combining mark after each character that draws a line through or under it. How clean the line looks depends on the font of whoever is reading.
| Style | Letters | Digits | X weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bold | Yes | Yes | 2 per character |
| Italic, bold italic, script | Yes | No, left plain | 2 per letter |
| Monospace | Yes | Yes | 2 per character |
| Strikethrough, underline | Any character | Any character | 2 per character (1 + 1 for the mark) |
Accessibility: use styled text sparingly
Screen readers see these characters as math symbols, not words. Depending on the reader, a bold word can be read out letter by letter as "mathematical bold capital" and so on, or skipped. Styled text also may not match in X search, so a styled keyword can be harder to find.
- Style a word or a short label, never a whole post.
- Keep names, keywords and anything people might search for in plain text.
- Don't put the only copy of important information in a styled line.
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Where styled text helps
Used lightly, a styled word works as a signpost. A bold label at the top of a post ("New:", "Lesson 3:"), a monospace command in a developer tip, or a struck-through old price next to a new one. In a bio, a single styled word can mark a section. The bio guide has more on what to put there.
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