10 sketchy text formatting tips for Twitter and Facebook

Ever wanted to use bold or italics in a tweet? Or a strikethrough, in a Facebook update? Or to use a special character of some kind? Well here’s your chance…

It’s Friday, so I thought I’d cobble together a throwaway post based around the different text styles you can use on Twitter. Click on an image to go to the appropriate text rendering tool.

Apologies if this leads to a spate of nonsensical, illegible tweets.

Unicode… so much to answer for.

By Chris Lake April 4th 2014 12:05

Strikethrough

Flip

Underline

Tiny text

Small caps

Bubble

Spaced out

Bold / italic

Wavy

Unicode character table

*Warning: overuse may result in a loss of followers.

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