LinkedIn Text Formatter (Bold, Italic, Bullets)
Bold, italic and lists for LinkedIn — with a preview, the limits and a plain fallback.
LinkedIn does not publish this limit; the default is the figure most often quoted.
Select text, then press a style. Press the same style again to remove it. Lists apply to the lines you select.
Preview
Approximate: LinkedIn does not publish where it cuts posts; it depends on the screen, font and line breaks.
About the LinkedIn Text Formatter (Bold, Italic, Bullets)
LinkedIn posts, comments and profile fields take plain text — there is no bold or italic button. This formatter works around that the only way plain text allows: it swaps the letters you select for look-alike characters from Unicode’s Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols — 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤, 𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙘 and 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 — and adds combining marks for u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲ and s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶. Lines can become bullet, arrow, check or numbered lists, and your line breaks are kept.
A LinkedIn-style preview shows roughly where “…see more” cuts the post on desktop and mobile, and the counters check the 3,000-character post limit. Because styled letters are harder for screen readers and invisible to search, use them for a few words, not whole paragraphs — and if in doubt, copy the plain-text version, which this tool always gives you.
How to use it
- Type or paste your post into the editor.
- Select a word or phrase and press Bold, Italic, Bold italic, Underline, Strikethrough or Monospace (Ctrl/⌘+B, I and U work too). Press the same button again to remove the style. Choose Sans-serif (closest to LinkedIn’s font) or Serif letters.
- Select lines and press a list button to add bullets, arrows, checks or numbers; press it again to remove them.
- Check the preview, the character count and the accessibility note, then press Copy — or Copy plain text for a version without any styling.
Examples
Big news: we are hiring in Pune
𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: we are hiring in Pune
Only the selected words are styled. Each styled letter is still one character, but two UTF-16 units.
Remote-friendly Health cover Learning budget
• Remote-friendly • Health cover • Learning budget
𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 · 𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸 · S̶a̶l̶e̶
Big news · Hello · Sale
Copy plain text also cleans text styled by other “fancy font” tools, including script, Fraktur and double-struck letters.
Common uses
- Making the first line of a LinkedIn post stand out.
- Formatting job posts, event announcements and recaps as readable lists.
- Emphasising a key number or phrase in a profile About section.
- Cleaning up styled text copied from elsewhere before posting it.
How “bold” works on LinkedIn
Posts, comments and profile fields on LinkedIn take plain text, so formatting has to be in the characters themselves. The letters this tool produces are separate Unicode characters — 𝗕 is U+1D5D5 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL B, not the letter B in a bold font — so they look bold wherever a font supports them. Underline and strikethrough add a combining character (U+0332 or U+0336) after each letter. Only A–Z and 0–9 have styled versions; other letters, accents and punctuation stay as they are, and italic has no styled digits.
Accessibility and search: use it sparingly
The Unicode Standard says these characters “are intended for use only in mathematical or technical notation, and not in nontechnical text” (Unicode 18.0, section 22.2.1). In practice:
- Screen readers may read styled letters one by one, by their mathematical names, or not at all, depending on the reader and device — so a styled sentence can become unintelligible.
- Search may not match them: 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 is not the word “hiring” to a search engine that does not normalise text.
- Some fonts lack these characters and show boxes.
Style a few words at most, never names, links or hashtags, and keep a plain-text version for anything important.
LinkedIn limits checked here
- Post: 3,000 characters (LinkedIn Help).
- InMail message: 1,900 characters (LinkedIn Help).
- Ad introductory text: 3,000 characters; up to 150 avoids truncation on some devices (LinkedIn Marketing Solutions).
- Profile headline and About section: LinkedIn’s help pages do not state these limits. 220 and 2,600 characters are the figures most often quoted; change them if LinkedIn’s editor shows otherwise.
LinkedIn does not say how it counts styled letters. Each is one character on screen but two UTF-16 code units, so the formatter shows both counts — if LinkedIn counts code units, styled text uses the limit twice as fast.
About the “see more” preview
LinkedIn shows the first few lines of a post and hides the rest behind “…see more”, but it does not publish exactly where — it depends on the screen width, the font and your line breaks. The preview imitates a desktop feed and a phone and cuts after the number of lines you choose, so treat it as an approximation. For ads, LinkedIn’s own guidance is to keep introductory text within 150 characters to avoid truncation; the preview marks that point when you choose Ad introductory text.
Limitations
- Styled characters exist only for A–Z, a–z and 0–9; accented letters keep their accent as a separate mark, which some fonts position badly.
- The “see more” position in the preview is approximate.
- Profile headline and About limits are not published by LinkedIn; the defaults are the figures most often quoted.
- Screen readers and search treat styled letters differently from normal text (see above).
Privacy
Everything happens in your browser. What you enter or open here is not uploaded or stored by MySmartCoPilot.
Frequently asked questions
How do I write in bold on LinkedIn?
Select the words here, press Bold, then copy and paste the text into LinkedIn. The bold letters are Unicode characters, so they stay bold in posts, comments and your profile.
Is bold text bad for accessibility?
It can be. Screen readers may read styled letters one at a time, by their mathematical names or not at all. Use it for a few words, not whole sentences, and never for names, links or hashtags.
Do styled letters count as more than one character?
Each is one character as you see it but two UTF-16 code units in storage. LinkedIn does not document which it counts, so the formatter shows both; leave room if your post is near 3,000.
Will LinkedIn keep my line breaks and bullets?
Line breaks and bullet characters such as • are ordinary text, so they are kept when you paste. The list buttons add the bullet characters for you.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. Formatting happens in your browser and nothing is uploaded or stored. The page also works offline once loaded.