Formatting LinkedIn doesn’t offer
LinkedIn posts have no bold or italic buttons. Writers work around it with Unicode styled letters. This formatter lets you write naturally with simple Markdown-style marks and converts them for you:
| You type | You get |
|---|---|
**bold** or __bold__ |
𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 |
*italic* or _italic_ |
𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤 |
***both*** |
𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 |
~~strike~~ |
s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶ |
`code` |
𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 |
- item at line start |
• item |
Line breaks and blank lines are preserved. Paste the result into LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook or anywhere else.
Use it sparingly
Styled Unicode letters aren’t real formatting: screen readers may read them as symbols, and search won’t match them. Bold a short hook or a key phrase (not whole paragraphs) and keep important words, names and links in plain text. The character count under the result shows your total against LinkedIn’s 3,000-character limit.
Worked example
Here is what the LinkedIn Text Formatter returns for its built-in example. Settings used: Bold style: Sans bold; Italic style: Sans italic; Turn - lines into • bullets: on. Click Try an example in the tool above to load it, then change it as you like.
**3 lessons from shipping our first product**
- Talk to users *before* you write code
- Ship small, ship often
- ~~Perfect~~ Done is better than perfect
What would you add?𝟯 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁
• Talk to users 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 you write code
• Ship small, ship often
• P̶e̶r̶f̶e̶c̶t̶ Done is better than perfect
What would you add?Questions
How do I bold text in a LinkedIn post?
Write like this in the box, copy the result and paste it into LinkedIn. The bold words are Unicode characters, so they keep their style.
Will styled text hurt my post’s reach?
There is no clear evidence either way, but styled words are not searchable and may be hard for screen readers. Use them for emphasis only.
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