Instagram fields that accept styled letters
Instagram has no bold or italic button, but it does accept Unicode symbols. Styled letters you copy from this page can go into your bio, your name and your captions, and they look the same for everyone whose device has a font with those symbols.
The bio is where styled text is most common: a bold line that says what you do, or one script word for personality. The bio stops at 150 characters, so every styled flourish competes with the words that make people follow you. Keep your @username in plain letters.
How styled letters count on Instagram
Every styled letter is a character, so it counts toward the 2,200-character caption and the 150-character bio like any other. This site’s counter counts each one as one character, the way people see it. Some apps count these symbols as two because of how they are stored, so leave a few characters spare if your bio is close to 150.
Keep it readable for everyone
Screen readers often skip styled letters or read them one by one as symbol names, and search tools usually don’t match them to plain words. Style a word or a short line, not your whole bio, and keep your name, what you do and any keyword in plain letters.
Leave hashtags plain too. A hashtag in styled letters is a different string of characters, so it doesn’t match the tag people follow.
Ideas for Instagram
- A bold first line in your bio that says what you post about.
- A script or italic word to sign off a caption.
- Small caps for a short section label, like ɴᴇᴡ ᴅʀᴏᴘꜱ.
- Bold for the one detail you want people to spot in a long caption.
From styled draft to scheduled Instagram post
Paste styled text straight into the Postocial composer and it publishes exactly as you see it, because it’s plain Unicode. Save the lines you reuse as templates, schedule the caption for Instagram, and write plain versions for networks where styled text would look out of place.
Check your caption length before you schedule it.