How to bold text on Facebook and FB Messenger

Bold text on Facebook makes your statuses and comments stand out and catch people’s attention. Shop owners also use bold text on their Facebook pages to make their ads more attractive. As you know, Facebook doesn’t let you change the font by default. But there is still a way to do it. Let’s see how to write stylish text on Facebook.

Tool to write bold text on FB

You can use the Lucid Gen tool below to write bold text for Facebook right in this article, so you don’t need to go anywhere else. Bookmark this page so you can use it again next time.

Benefits of writing bold on Facebook:

• Your ads will catch more attention and make people want to read the content. Remember to combine bold text with Facebook icons.
• Your statuses look cooler, especially when you post quotes about life.
• Highlighting key points keeps readers engaged, which works especially well in Facebook groups.
• Your messages in group chats get more attention because they look different from everyone else’s.

Instructions on how to write bold text on Facebook

Just type your content into the text box, and it will be converted into seven different font styles. You can also drag to resize the text boxes to view your content more easily. The green button in the picture only shows up because I use Grammarly Premium.

How to write bold text on Facebook

Type the content you want in bold, click the Copy button, then paste it into your Facebook post. There are two bold fonts to choose from, so you can give your post some personality and help readers quickly spot what you want them to notice.

The bold text from this tool is made of special Unicode characters, not formatting. That’s why it stays bold when you paste it into Facebook.

Note: Some older phones can’t display these special characters and will only show squares. Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do about that. Mid-range and newer Android phones, iPhones, and computers display them just fine.

How to write italics on Facebook

Type the content you want in italics, click Copy, and paste it into your post.

How to write bold and italic text on Facebook

It works the same way as the two styles above, but bold italic text looks especially cool. It’s a nice touch for product or brand names in your posts.

Write bold text in Facebook groups with built-in formatting

Facebook lets you use text formatting in posts you publish to groups. To make text bold in a Facebook group post, just select a piece of text. A formatting menu will appear, and you can click the icons to change the text format.

• B: bold, shortcut Ctrl + B.
• I: italic, shortcut Ctrl + I.
• Underline: shortcut Ctrl + U.

You can also use H1 and H2 headings, quotes, and lists to make your group posts stand out and grab readers’ attention. Formatting text in group posts is really handy.

Write bold text in FB Messenger and YouTube comments with symbols

In Facebook Messenger and YouTube comments, you can quickly format text by wrapping it in symbols like this:

• Send *bold content*, and it will show as bold content.
• Send _italic content_, and it will show as italic content.
• Send _*bold italic content*_, and it will show as bold italic content.
• Send ~strikethrough content~, and it will show as strikethrough content (the YouTube app uses -strikethrough content-).

Note: In Messenger, this formatting only shows on computers. In the mobile apps, the message keeps the symbols as they are. This post used to cover Skype as well, but Microsoft retired Skype on May 5, 2025 and moved its users to Microsoft Teams (free), so I have removed that part.

How to write stylish text on Facebook with your phone

There are 2 ways to write bold text on Facebook using your phone:

Method 1: Use the bold text tool at the beginning of this article. The Lucid Gen website works well on mobile.

Method 2: There is also a pretty good font app for phones called Stylish Text. However, the styles that Lucid Gen offers for free require a Premium upgrade in that app.

Conclusion

Now you know how to write stylish text on Facebook to make your posts stand out. Posting a few quotes about life in bold or italics on your profile looks pretty cool too. If you find this useful, bookmark this page in your browser so you can open it quickly next time. And don’t forget to share it with your colleagues.