YouTube Bold and Italic Text Generator

Add bold and italic text to YouTube descriptions, community posts, and comments. Format it here and paste it into YouTube.

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How to add italics to a YouTube description

YouTube descriptions do not support formatting. Write the description here, select a heading or key line, and press B or I. Copy it and paste it into YouTube Studio.

Bold section labels such as Chapters, Links, or Gear make long descriptions much easier to scan.

Bold in YouTube comments

YouTube comments accept *asterisks* for bold and _underscores_ for italic. That only works inside comments, though. Unicode styling works in comments, descriptions, and community posts alike.

Questions

Good to know.

How long can a YouTube description be?

A YouTube video description can be up to 5,000 characters. The counter shows how much your formatted text uses.

Is this real bold text or a font?

Neither, exactly. Social apps do not support rich text in posts, so the tool swaps each letter for a look-alike Unicode character, such as 𝗕 for B. Because they are characters rather than styling, they stay bold or italic wherever you paste them.

Can screen readers read Unicode bold text?

Not reliably. Some screen readers spell styled letters out one by one or skip them. Use bold and italic for a few words of emphasis, and keep the important information in plain text.

Does styled text show up in search?

Usually not. Search on most platforms matches plain letters, so a styled word may not be found when someone searches for it. Keep names, keywords, and hashtags in plain text.

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