How to Write Bold, Italic and Strikethrough Text in WhatsApp

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  1. WhatsApp’s built-in formatting
  2. More text tools in Stylish
  3. Fancy fonts in WhatsApp

WhatsApp has its own formatting, and Stylish adds many more text tricks for chats.

WhatsApp’s built-in formatting

You typeYou get
*text*bold
_text_italic
~text~strikethrough
```text```monospace

Stylish’s Text tools add these marks for you: type your text, choose bold or italic formatting for chat apps and copy it.

More text tools in Stylish

  • Vertical text: writes your text from top to bottom.
  • "Read more" messages: hides the rest of a long message behind "Read more".
  • Blank invisible text: send an empty-looking message or leave a name empty.
  • Text repeater: repeat a word or emoji many times.
  • Glitch text, Emoji letters and Number styles.
  • Text cleaner and character counter.

Fancy fonts in WhatsApp

Copy any of the 171 font styles and paste them into a chat, your WhatsApp name or About. Or turn on the Stylish font keyboard and type in fancy fonts directly.

Get Stylish: Fancy Text & Fonts on Google Play