Facebook Font Generator

Facebook has no font menu, so the styling has to travel inside the text itself. That is why you copy a finished line and paste it, rather than choosing a font on the site.

1. Type or paste your text into the Input box. If the box is empty, every row shows the words Preview text so you can compare styles first.
2. Scroll down the list. Each row shows a style name and your text in that style, all generated at once.
3. Press Copy on the row you like.
4. Open Facebook, click into a post, comment, bio or group description, and paste with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on a phone.
5. Look at the preview before you post. If one style is rejected in a field, go back and copy a different one.

The generator styles everything in the box, so to emphasise a single word inside a normal sentence, type only that word, copy its bold row, and paste it into the middle of your sentence in Facebook. Do the same for each word you want to style. It is slower than a formatting toolbar, but it works in every field that accepts text.

The rows run from bold and italic faces through script and gothic to enclosed letters and upside down text. Here is how the word Hello looks in a few of them.

Coverage differs by style. Bold, bold serif, double struck, monospace, fullwidth and the bubble styles also convert digits. Italic, script and fraktur leave numbers as plain digits, the square styles convert letters only, and subscript covers just part of the alphabet. The remaining rows are bold italic, bold script, bold fraktur, italic serif, fullwidth, filled bubbles, squares, filled squares, superscript, upside down and mirror.

Choosing a style is mostly a matter of purpose. Bold and bold serif give emphasis that reads well at small sizes. Monospace gives a typewriter look for short lists. Small caps suit a quiet heading, and fullwidth letters, which also widen the spaces, work for a spaced-out title. Script and fraktur are decorative, so save them for a word or two. Use one style per line, because mixing several in one post looks cluttered and makes the text harder to scan on a phone.

These are not fonts. Unicode includes complete alphabets that were designed for mathematics, so a bold H and an italic H are different characters. The generator swaps each letter you type for its counterpart in one of those alphabets. To Facebook the result is just text, which is why it passes through posts, comments, Messenger and most bio fields. Nothing here is specific to Facebook; the same text works on any site that accepts Unicode.

• Names. Facebook expects the name you use in everyday life and often rejects symbols in the name fields. Styled text is accepted more reliably in bios, group descriptions and posts.
• Readability. Keep a style for a headline or a short phrase. A whole paragraph in gothic or circled letters is hard to read on a phone.
• Accessibility and search. Screen readers may read styled letters one at a time or skip them, and a hashtag in styled letters will not match the plain-letter version.
• Editing later. You cannot fix a typo inside a styled word by retyping a letter on the keyboard, because the new letter would be plain. Correct the text in the generator and paste the whole line again.

To see the code point of any character, use the Unicode text converter. For a single style, there are the bold text generator, the bubble text generator and the small text generator.