Free writing tool
LinkedIn bold and italic text generator
LinkedIn has no bold button. Paste a line here, copy the styled version, and paste it back — and read the accessibility note before you use it on anything that matters.
Bold
𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗜 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲
Italic
𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦
Bold italic
𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙄 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙚
Monospace
𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚎
Use this sparingly, and never for a whole post
These are not bold letters. They are separate Unicode characters that happen to look bold. A screen reader announces them as mathematical symbols or skips them entirely, so a headline written this way can be unreadable to someone using one. Search and copy-paste also stop matching them against ordinary letters.
One short phrase is a reasonable trade. A full post, a name, or anything a reader needs in order to follow you is not.
How this actually works
LinkedIn, X, Threads and Facebook publish plain text. There is no bold button because there is no formatting to store. What every tool in this category does instead — this one included — is swap your letters for different characters that happen to look bold.
Those characters come from Unicode's Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which exists so mathematicians can write a bold vector and an italic variable as distinct symbols. A feed renders them because they are ordinary text, not because it understands them as emphasis.
What it costs, stated plainly
None of that makes the tool useless. One short phrase carrying emphasis is a reasonable trade, and it is why the category exists. A whole post, your name, or anything a reader needs in order to act is not — and no competitor's version of this tool will tell you so.
- A screen reader announces these as mathematical symbols, or skips them. A headline written this way can be silence to someone using one.
- Search does not match them against ordinary letters, so a styled word is invisible to anyone searching for it — including LinkedIn's own search.
- Copying the text out gives the reader the symbols, not the letters, which breaks quoting and translation.
- Some older Android builds and email clients render unsupported ranges as empty boxes.