Discord Fonts

How do Discord fonts work?

Discord lets you write **bold** or *italic* with Markdown inside a message, but a display name, an About Me, a server name or a channel name takes plain text only. That is where Unicode fonts come in: characters like 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 and ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘꜱ are not formatting, they are letters, so Discord shows them anywhere it shows text.

The eight styles pinned at the top are the ones Discord's own font renders cleanly on desktop, iOS and Android: bold, italic, bold italic, monospace, small caps, double-struck, fraktur and bold sans. The rest of the grid works too, but the combining-mark styles (strikethrough, zalgo) can be clipped by Discord's line height in a name.

Nothing is uploaded: the conversion runs in your browser, and the result is text you own.

What to know about fonts on Discord

• Display names accept Unicode; the unique @username does not. Since the 2023 username change, an @username is lowercase letters, digits, dots and underscores only - styled letters go in the display name.
• A display name is capped at 32 characters, and every Unicode letter counts as one, so the limit is the same as for plain text (unlike bios on some other platforms).
• Server owners can require plain names. Some moderation bots strip or rename Unicode display names on join, so check the server rules before you paste a fully styled one.
• Inside a message, Markdown is better than Unicode: **bold** and `code` stay searchable and readable by screen readers. Unicode fonts are for the places Markdown does not reach.

Discord font examples

Common Discord font mistakes

• Trying to put a styled font in the @username field. It rejects anything but plain lowercase letters, digits, dots and underscores.
• Pasting zalgo or strikethrough into a display name. The stacked marks get clipped by the member list's line height and look broken next to other names.
• Using a styled name on a server whose bot renames non-plain names - you get renamed on join and blame the font.

Discord fonts FAQ