Platform GuidesLinkedIn Formatting: Use It Sparingly
LinkedIn has no formatting, so people paste Unicode. Why the costs are higher here and the one-bold-line rule that works.
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Style GuidesBig Text: An Illusion, Not a Font Size
Unicode cannot resize text. How big text generators fake it, which styles read largest, and the ASCII-art confusion.
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Style GuidesStrikethrough Text: One Mark, Four Variants
Unicode strikethrough is one overlay mark repeated per letter. The four variants, the double character cost, and when native strikethrough wins.
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Style GuidesWeird Text: The Six Blocks Behind Strange Letters
Six unrelated Unicode blocks, wildly different costs, and one that quietly turns your word into country flags.
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Platform GuidesTikTok Fonts: The 80-Character Bio Problem
The tightest bio on any platform makes storage cost the deciding factor. Which styles fit 80 characters and which waste half of them.
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Platform GuidesFacebook Fonts: Where Styled Text Works and Where It Is Rejected
Accepted in posts, bios and comments. Rejected in profile names, Page names and paid ads. The one that costs money.
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Platform GuidesDiscord Fonts: Three Systems and Which Fields They Reach
Markdown, Nitro styles and Unicode reach different fields. Which works where, and which styles render as boxes for everyone else.
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Style GuidesCursed Text: How the Glitch Effect Is Actually Built
It stacks marks on your letters instead of replacing them. Why that costs six times plain text and breaks in every bio field.
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Style GuidesVaporwave Text: The Only Complete Unicode Alphabet
Fullwidth is the only styled block with no missing characters, and it costs the same as plain text. Why, and where to use it.
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Style GuidesSmall Text: Small Caps vs Superscript vs Subscript
Three Unicode small-text styles, and the letters each one is missing. Small caps has no Q or X. Subscript is missing nine.
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Unicode ExplainedCharacter Limits on Every Platform (and Why Styled Text Eats Them)
Instagram 150, TikTok 80, Discord 190. Why a styled bio hits the limit long before the letters run out.
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Unicode ExplainedWhy Your Fancy Text Shows as Boxes (and How to Fix It)
Empty boxes mean the reading device has no glyph for a character. How to tell tofu apart from U+FFFD and U+FFFC, and which Unicode blocks survive everywhere.
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Style GuidesGothic vs Blackletter vs Old English: A Typography Primer
Blackletter is the family, Fraktur is one branch, Old English is a typeface name. What each term means, and the two alphabets Unicode actually ships.
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Platform GuidesWhy Some Fonts Break on iPhone but Work on Android
The character is identical on both platforms. What differs is the font stack: iOS ships one, Android ships hundreds.
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AccessibilityAre Fancy Fonts Accessible? What Screen Readers Actually Read
Styled text swaps letters for different Unicode characters. What screen readers announce, and where to draw the line.
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