25 copy-paste styles for Reddit display names, flair and titles — and an honest note on why most subreddits would rather you used markdown.
These styles are Unicode characters that look like fonts, not real formatting. Screen readers announce them one character at a time by their full Unicode name, so a fully styled post is unreadable to anyone using one — and search engines and in-app search cannot match them as words. Use them for a name, a heading or one emphasised phrase, and keep the text you want found or read aloud in plain characters.
**Bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~, `code`, > quotes and # headers all work in posts and comments as real formatting. Reddit's audience is unusually hostile to Unicode substitution — it breaks screen readers, old.reddit, and RES — and styled comments get downvoted on sight in most subreddits. Use markdown in post bodies and comments.
User flair and your display name aren't markdown-parsed, so Unicode is the only way to style them, and it's broadly accepted. Many subreddits still restrict flair characters, so check the sidebar.
Post titles are how Reddit search and Google find your thread, and they're matched as plain text. A styled title also reads as spam to most subreddit moderators and to automod rules. Several large subreddits remove them automatically.
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Use markdown: **bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~, `inline code`, > quote and # header. This is real formatting, works on every Reddit client, and stays accessible. Prefer it over the Unicode styles above for anything you write in a post body or comment.
No. Usernames accept only letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens, and they can't be changed after signup. Your display name is separate, editable and accepts full Unicode up to 30 characters.
Quite possibly. Many subreddits run automod rules against unusual characters in titles because they're used to evade keyword filters. Styled titles also don't match Reddit or Google search. Keep titles plain.
The mathematical alphabets generally render, but old.reddit and some third-party clients handle the circled and squared emoji-block styles inconsistently. Reddit has one of the most fragmented client ecosystems of any platform, so test before relying on a style.
Three reasons that all hold up: screen readers announce each character by its Unicode name, so styled text is inaccessible; styled text isn't searchable; and it's a known trick for evading automod keyword filters, so moderators treat it with suspicion.
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