How do you get bold or italic text on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn has no bold or italic button. Type below, pick a style, and paste the result straight into your post.

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𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲.

Three things that fix it:

• Open with one short sentence, not a paragraph
• Give every idea its own line
• Bold the first line and nothing else

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Formatting

Fonts

𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰Sans-serif bold
𝖬𝖺𝗀𝗂𝖼Sans-serif
𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤Sans-serif italic
𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙘Sans-serif bold italic
𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌Monospace
ℳ𝒶ℊ𝒾𝒸Script
𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬Bold script
𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔠Gothic
𝕸𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈Bold gothic
𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕔Outline
MᴀɢɪᴄSmall caps
ᴹᵃᵍᶦᶜSuperscript
ⓂⓐⓖⓘⓒCircled
🅜🅐🅖🅘🅒Circled, filled
🄼🄰🄶🄸🄲Squared
🅼🅰🅶🅸🅲Squared, filled
🄜⒜⒢⒤⒞Bracketed
ＭａｇｉｃWide
🇲🇦🇬🇮🇨Flags

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The reference

What LinkedIn formats natively, and what it does not

LinkedIn's editor gives you line breaks and emoji, and nothing else. Everything below is what people actually use in their place.

LinkedIn's post editor has no bold or italic button. A LinkedIn text formatter swaps each letter for the Unicode character that looks like it, so the styling survives the paste into a post, a comment or a headline.

The style you just applied

Text formatting in the LinkedIn post editor, element by element.
Element	In LinkedIn's editor	What people use instead
Bold	No button	Bold Unicode letters, pasted in
Italic	No button	Italic Unicode letters, pasted in
Underline	No button	An underline mark added to each character
Strikethrough	No button	A strike mark added to each character
Bullet list	No button	A bullet character typed at the start of each line
Headings	No button	A short bold line, followed by a blank line
Line breaks	Supported	Enter, with paragraphs of two or three lines
Emoji	Supported	The picker in the editor, or a pasted character

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How it works

Three things worth knowing before you paste

These are characters, not formatting
Unicode holds a full alphabet of bold, italic and decorative letters. The formatter swaps each letter for its lookalike, which is why the style survives a copy and paste anywhere LinkedIn accepts text.
Style the line that carries the post
A bold first line and a bold call to action are enough. When every second word is styled, the eye has nothing left to land on, and the post reads like a ransom note.
Know what styled text costs
Screen readers spell these characters out one by one, and LinkedIn's search does not match them. Keep your name, your keywords and your links in plain text, and style a few words at most.

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Your next step

Format it where you write it

Copying between a formatter and LinkedIn works once. MagicPost puts the editor, the formatting and the preview on the same screen, so you see the post as your audience will.

Formatting in the editor. Bold and italic are a click away while you write, not a round trip through another tab.
The preview beside the text. See where the see-more cut falls, on desktop and on mobile, before you publish.
Written once, scheduled once. The formatted post goes straight into your queue, at the time you picked.

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FAQ

About formatting text on LinkedIn

Useful links

Does LinkedIn have a bold or italic button?

No. The post editor has no formatting controls at all, on desktop or in the app. The bold text you see in your feed was written elsewhere and pasted in, using the Unicode characters this formatter produces.

Will the formatted text show up on every device?

On current phones and browsers, yes. Bold, italic and monospace are the safest, because their characters have been in Unicode the longest. Very old devices, and a few enterprise setups with restricted fonts, can show empty boxes instead of letters.

Does styled text hurt accessibility or search?

It has a real cost. A screen reader reads these characters one by one instead of speaking the word, and LinkedIn's search does not match them, so a styled keyword stops being findable. Style a hook or a call to action, and leave your name, your keywords and your links in plain text. LinkedIn Post Readability Checker

Does formatting get more reach?

Formatting does not change how LinkedIn distributes a post. What it changes is whether someone stops scrolling long enough to read it, which is where a bold first line and short paragraphs help. The words still do the work. LinkedIn Hook Analyzer

Can I use formatted text in comments and messages?

Yes. These are ordinary characters, so they paste into comments, messages, your headline and your About section the same way they paste into a post. Your headline is the one place to be careful, since it is also what recruiters search.

Is the formatter free, and does it read my LinkedIn account?

It is free, with no signup and no limit on how much you format. Everything happens in your browser: your text is never sent to MagicPost, and nothing is read from your LinkedIn account.

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