LinkedIn text formatter
Make a few words bold, italic, underlined or monospace for a LinkedIn post, then copy the result. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
188 characters · 11 of 141 letters formatted
These are not real bold or italic but look-alike characters from other corners of Unicode. Screen readers read them badly or not at all, and LinkedIn's search does not match them. Use them for a few words, never for a whole post.
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What the formatter does to your text
Styles are characters, not formatting
LinkedIn's editor has no formatting, so the bold and italic you see in the feed are not styles at all. They are different characters: letters from Unicode's mathematical alphabets for bold, italic, bold italic and monospace, and an invisible combining line after each character for underline and strikethrough. The formatter swaps the characters you select and swaps them back when you press the same button again.
What stays plain
Only the letters A to Z have styled look-alikes, plus the digits in bold and monospace. Letters such as ä, ö, ü, é and ß, the digits in italic, punctuation and emojis have none, so they are left exactly as you typed them: “Zürich” in bold keeps a plain ü between bold letters. Underline and strikethrough are lines added after a character, so they work on every letter, and they leave emojis alone.
What it costs
A screen reader meets a mathematical symbol where a sighted reader sees a bold letter. Depending on the software it spells the word out symbol by symbol or skips it. LinkedIn's search does not match styled letters either, so nobody finds a post through a word you made bold. And an underlined or struck-through letter is two characters, which counts against LinkedIn's 3,000 per post. That is why this is a tool for a headline or a key term and not for a paragraph.
Where the result works
What you copy is plain text, so it survives being pasted into a post, a comment, a headline or a message. How it looks is up to the reader's device: it needs a font that has these characters, and a device without one shows empty boxes instead. If a post has to be read by everyone, keep the part that matters in ordinary letters.
Privacy
The page runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to MediaPilot or anyone else, nothing is stored, and there is no account. If you use the button above, the text is carried into the signup on your own device, without the styling, so you do not have to paste it again.
Next: see the formatted text the way the feed shows it, or read How long should a LinkedIn post be? for the layout that keeps a post readable without any formatting.
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