LinkedIn text formatter.Bold a few words, not the whole post.

How to bold text on LinkedIn

• Write or paste your post aboveStart from a draft, or paste a post you already have.
• Select a few words and pick a styleBold, italic, bold italic, underline or strikethrough. With nothing selected, the style goes on the word under the cursor. ⌘B, ⌘I and ⌘U work too (Ctrl on Windows), and clicking again takes the style off. Hashtags, mentions and links stay plain, so they still work.
• Check both previewsIn the feed shows the post as LinkedIn does: click "Fold it like the feed" to see what shows before "…see more". Read aloud shows what a screen reader may announce instead of your styled words.
• Copy, then paste into LinkedInThe styled letters are ordinary characters, so they paste into the post box, a comment or your About section like any text. On a phone, it works the same: format here in your browser, copy, and paste into the LinkedIn app.

Why LinkedIn posts have no bold button

LinkedIn's post box keeps your line breaks, mentions and hashtags, and has no formatting buttons. Articles are different: their editor lets you bold or italicize text and add lists and quotes (LinkedIn Help). For a long piece that needs real formatting, an article is the better tool.

So every "LinkedIn bold text" tool, this one included, does the same thing: it replaces each letter with a character from Unicode's Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, a set of bold, italic and script letters made for equations. They look like styled text, but to a computer 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗺 is nine symbols, not the word Northbeam. Unicode says these characters are meant "for use only in mathematical or technical notation" (Unicode TR25).

Bold text, screen readers and search

Styled letters cost something, and it's worth knowing what before using them:

• Screen readersSome read each styled letter by its name, like "mathematical sans-serif script t" in Scope's example; others skip them. A few bold words can become a long string of symbol names for someone listening to your post. The Read aloud view above shows it.
• SearchLinkedIn doesn't say whether its search matches styled words with the plain ones people type. Keep your name, your job title and anything you want to be found for in plain letters.
• Other alphabetsOnly the Latin letters A to Z and the digits have look-alikes. Letters from other alphabets stay as they are.

So the formatter is built for a few words: a name in a list, the one line that matters. The count under the editor says how many styled characters the post holds, and Clear styling turns everything back into plain text.

When bold text helps, and when it doesn't

• Helps: the start of each point in a listThree bold words at the start of three lines let people scan the post. The example above does exactly that.
• Helps: one result or dateThe single thing people should remember, once.
• Doesn't: the whole hookThe first lines already stand alone in the feed. In bold, they're harder to read, for people and for screen readers.
• Doesn't: every other sentenceWhen everything stands out, nothing does, and screen reader users hear it all spelled out.

Line breaks do most of the formatting work on LinkedIn. Short paragraphs of one or two sentences, with an empty line between them, are what the LinkedIn post generator writes.

Does styled text count against the 3,000 characters?

A post can have up to 3,000 characters (LinkedIn Help). Each styled letter takes two units in the way most web forms count text, and an underlined or struck letter takes one more for the line. LinkedIn doesn't publish how its box counts them, so the counter above counts the strict way: if it says 3,000 or less, the post fits.

If you post the same text on X, the styled letters cost more there too: X counts every character outside its basic ranges as 2 of the 280 (X developer docs). The X post generator counts a post the way X does.

Remove bold or italic from a LinkedIn post

Paste the post above and click Clear styling with nothing selected: every styled letter goes back to plain text, including the serif, script and double-struck letters other formatters make, and underlines and strikethroughs are removed. Select a part first to clean only that part.