Bold text generator

Type on the left. Style starts on Bold and also offers Bold italic, plus Bold cursive and Bold gothic if you want something further from ordinary type.

Swap the boxes to get plain letters back, whichever of the styles the text arrived in.

Most of the styles in this Unicode block are letters only. Bold is different. It carries a full set of digits, because a bold number means something specific in mathematics, and they sit at U+1D7CE onwards while the bold capitals start back at U+1D400.

That makes it the practical choice for the things people actually want emphasized in a bio or a listing. Prices, dates, times, a phone number. Cursive and gothic would leave every one of those flat.

Double-struck and monospace carry digits as well, if you want something less shouty.

Anywhere with a real bold. Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp and anything Markdown-shaped will make **this** bold properly, and properly means a screen reader still hears the word.

These characters are mathematical variables. Unless a search folds them back to plain letters, a shop name written this way matches nothing anyone types.

Use it in a box with no formatting and no search depending on it.

In print, bold is a second cut of a typeface and the letter underneath is the same letter. In mathematics it isn't. A bold 𝐯 is a vector where a plain v is a scalar, and the two can sit in one equation meaning different things.

Unicode had to let plain text carry that distinction, so it encoded each variant separately in 2001. Everything on this page is a side effect of that decision, and none of it was aimed at anyone's bio.

Italic is the same block, one style along. Cursive and gothic are the decorative ends of it, both without digits.

For emphasis that shrinks rather than thickens, small text drops everything to small capitals.