xHow bold and italic text on LinkedIn works
If your LinkedIn post box has no bold or italic button, the common workaround is Unicode. Unicode, the text standard every phone and browser uses, includes complete alphabets of bold and italic letters in its Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. They are separate characters, not formatting, so they keep their look when you copy them into LinkedIn — in a post, a comment, your headline or your About section.
This formatter uses the sans-serif versions of those letters, because they sit closest to the sans-serif typeface LinkedIn’s interface uses; serif bold looks noticeably different next to normal text. Underline and strikethrough work by adding a combining mark after each character. Select text and press the same button again to remove a style; “Clear formatting” turns styled letters in the selection, or the whole post, back into plain text.
The “…see more” line
In the feed, LinkedIn shows only the beginning of a long post, followed by “…see more”. LinkedIn doesn’t publish an exact rule, and the cut moves with the device, the screen width and your line breaks — a post that opens with several short lines is cut earlier than a single paragraph. As a working estimate, readers see about the first 210 characters on desktop and about 140 on mobile.
The preview above cuts your post at that approximate point, and you can switch between desktop and mobile. Use it to check that your opening line says what the post is about before the cut, rather than to count exact characters.
Lists and line breaks
LinkedIn keeps the line breaks you paste, so short lines and blank lines between paragraphs survive. The list buttons add a “•” or a number to the start of each selected line and skip empty lines; pressing the button again removes them. Because the bullets are ordinary characters, they look the same in every app.
Use styled text sparingly: accessibility and search
Screen readers do not treat Unicode bold and italic letters as normal letters. Depending on the reader, a bold word may be spelled out letter by letter, announced as a mathematical symbol, or skipped. A post written entirely in styled text can be hard or impossible to follow for people who use assistive technology.
Search is affected too: to a computer, a bold “A” is a different character from a plain “A”, so a styled word may not match a search for the plain word, and a styled hashtag is a different hashtag. Style a few words or a short heading for emphasis, and keep names, hashtags and key details in plain text.
Accented and Turkish letters stay plain
Unicode only has styled versions of the basic Latin letters A–Z and a–z (and digits in bold). Letters such as é, ñ, ç, ğ, ş, ö, ü, ı and İ have no bold or italic form, so the formatter leaves them as they are instead of faking them. In a bold word, those letters stay regular while the rest of the word is bold.
Character limit
LinkedIn posts allow up to 3,000 characters. The counter under the editor counts each styled letter as one character. LinkedIn may count them differently, because each styled letter takes two code units in the way most software stores text, so leave some room if your post is close to the limit.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I make text bold on LinkedIn?
Write your post in the formatter, select the words you want to emphasize and press Bold. The tool replaces them with Unicode bold letters. Copy the post and paste it into LinkedIn; the bold look stays because the letters themselves are different characters.
Can I use italic, underline or strikethrough on LinkedIn?
Yes, the same way. Italic uses Unicode italic letters; underline and strikethrough add a combining line to each character. Underline and strikethrough render less consistently across devices than bold and italic.
Where does LinkedIn cut a post with “…see more”?
LinkedIn doesn’t publish an exact number. As an estimate, readers see about the first 210 characters on desktop and about 140 on mobile, and line breaks make the cut come earlier. The preview in this tool shows that approximate point.
What is the character limit for a LinkedIn post?
A LinkedIn post can be up to 3,000 characters. Styled letters may count as more than one character there, so leave some room when you are close to the limit.
Can screen readers read bold Unicode text?
Often not well. Screen readers may spell styled letters one by one, describe them as mathematical symbols, or skip them. Use bold or italic for a few words of emphasis and keep important information in plain text.
Why do some letters stay plain?
Unicode has bold and italic versions only for basic Latin letters. Accented and Turkish letters such as é, ç, ğ, ş, ö, ü, ı and İ have no styled form, so the tool leaves them unchanged instead of replacing them with a broken look-alike.
Does this tool store or send what I type?
No. The formatter runs entirely in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server.