Free tool
LinkedIn text formatter for bold, italic and bullets
LinkedIn's composer has no bold button — it sends plain text. Select a few words below, pick a style, and the letters are swapped for Unicode characters that look the part and survive the paste.
0 / 3,000 characters
Nothing is uploaded — the swap happens in your browser. Post limit 3,000 characters, read from LinkedIn's help on 2026-08-29; the characters come from the Unicode Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block.
Use it on two or three words, not the whole post
These are not bold letters — they are separate characters that look bold. A screen reader announces them as mathematical symbols instead of reading the word, and LinkedIn's search does not match them. A styled heading and one styled number cost you nothing; a styled paragraph makes the post unreadable to anyone using assistive technology and invisible to search. Hashtags and @mentions have to stay ordinary letters or they stop linking.
Frequently asked questions
Why can I not just make text bold on LinkedIn?+
Because the LinkedIn composer sends plain text — it has no bold button and no markdown. Every bold post you have seen swapped the letters for lookalike characters from a Unicode block, which is what this tool does.
Is bold text on LinkedIn bad for accessibility?+
It has a real cost. A mathematical bold "A" (U+1D400) is not the letter A, so a screen reader announces it as a symbol rather than reading the word, and text search does not match it. Style two or three words — a heading, one number — and leave the body of the post as ordinary letters.
Will hashtags and mentions still work if I style them?+
No. A hashtag or an @mention has to be made of ordinary letters for LinkedIn to link it. Leave those two untouched; the tool never styles them for you.
How long can a LinkedIn post be?+
3,000 characters, and the counter here measures against that. Only the first few lines show before "see more", so the hook belongs at the top — before the styled heading, not after it.
Do the styles survive a paste?+
Yes — they are characters, not formatting, so they paste into a post, a comment, a headline or a message and keep looking the same. That is also why you cannot undo them by clearing formatting; you retype the word.
Related tools
Styled once, posted everywhere
The same post, fitted to each platform
Paste the styled version here into the composer and LinkedIn gets it as written, with its own 3,000-character card — while X, Threads and Bluesky get the plain version their limits allow, not a truncated copy of this one.
Write once, tailor per platform
One caption; each platform gets its own card with its real limit, a title where one is needed, a first comment where the platform allows it.
Schedule, queue, or repeat
Pick a time, drop it in recurring slots, or recycle a post every few weeks. Best times to post come from your own history.
Media fitted per platform
An image outside a platform's ratio is padded with a blurred copy of itself. Carousels where allowed, a PDF as a LinkedIn document.
$5 per connected account / month
Two accounts is ten dollars, eleven is fifty-five. No tiers, no seats, unlimited posts. Cancel from your account page.