LinkedIn Font Generator

How to Use the LinkedIn Font Generator

1. Write your LinkedIn post. Put **two asterisks** around words to bold them, or *one* for italic.
2. Or select words and press Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike or Bullet to add the marks for you.
3. Press Copy post and paste the formatted post into LinkedIn.
4. Check the character count stays under the 3,000 character post limit.

Write or paste your post in the box. To make words bold, select them and press Bold, or type two asterisks on each side like **this**. The same works for italic, bold italic, underline, strikethrough and monospace, and any line that starts with a dash becomes a bullet. The formatted post on the right updates as you type, and Copy post copies it ready to paste into LinkedIn.

Below the post you can also turn the whole text into one style, which is handy for a headline, a section title or the first line of your About section.

Why LinkedIn Needs Unicode Fonts

LinkedIn posts, comments, headlines and profile sections accept plain text only. There is no bold or italic button in the regular post editor, so the usual trick is to replace letters with Unicode characters that already look bold or italic. They come from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which was created for math notation and is supported by current phones and computers.

Worked Example

In "Big news", B is the 2nd letter, so bold sans B is U+1D5D4 + 1 = U+1D5D5 (𝗕). The small i is the 9th letter: U+1D5EE + 8 = U+1D5F6 (𝗶). Marked as **Big news:**, the line becomes 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀:. The colon has no bold form, so it stays normal. In the default post, the text has 195 characters and 31 of them are styled.

Which LinkedIn Font Style to Use

Sans styles match the LinkedIn interface font, so they look the most natural. Serif bold, script and double-struck stand out more but can look out of place in a professional feed.

Character Limits and Counting

LinkedIn currently allows up to 3,000 characters in a post. The counter shows characters as people see them, plus UTF-16 units. Each styled letter is a single character on screen but takes two UTF-16 units in memory, and some systems count those units. If a long post with a lot of styling is rejected, trim a few lines.

Where Styled Text Works on LinkedIn

Because the result is ordinary Unicode text, you can paste it anywhere LinkedIn accepts typed text: posts, comments, direct messages, your headline, the About section, job descriptions in the Experience section, featured links and company page updates. Articles and newsletters written in the LinkedIn article editor already have real bold and italic buttons, so use those there instead, because real formatting stays readable for screen readers and search.

A good pattern for a post is a short bold hook on the first line, one blank line, then two or three short paragraphs or a bulleted list with one bold phrase each. Readers in the feed see only the first lines before the post is folded, so the hook carries most of the work.

Tips and Accessibility

• Bold the hook and a few key phrases, not whole paragraphs. Readers skim, and too much bold hides the message.
• Screen readers may read styled letters one by one or skip them, so never put essential facts, names or links only in a styled font.
• Do not style hashtags or names you want found. LinkedIn search matches normal letters.
• Bullets made with • and short lines are easier to read on phones than long blocks of text.
• Check the post on your phone before publishing. Long words in bold sans are wider than normal text and can wrap earlier than you expect.

Everything happens in your browser. Your draft is not uploaded or stored, so it is safe to prepare announcements before they are public.

Frequently asked questions