Facebook fonts for posts, chats and your profile

People who search for Facebook fonts usually want one of three things, and only two of them are possible:

• Fancy letters for your own words: that's the generator above. The letters are Unicode characters, so they work wherever Facebook takes ordinary text, apart from names.
• A different typeface for Facebook itself: not possible. Facebook decides which fonts its apps and website use, and there's no setting to swap them for others.
• Bigger or smaller text: on a computer, zoom the browser with Ctrl and + or − (Cmd on a Mac). On a phone, try the display or text-size settings, though apps differ in how closely they follow them.

Styled letters only change the words you write. Everyone reading them still sees Facebook's usual text around them, and their own device decides exactly how your styled characters are drawn.

Bold italic, which combines weight and slant, suits a short, excited line, such as 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 above a set of photos. Whatever the style, look at what stays plain in every row: anything people will search for, copy, tap or need to read twice.

Meta runs both apps, but they don't accept styled letters in the same places. The biggest difference is the name: Instagram's name field takes styled letters, while Facebook's name rules turn them away.

Captions are the easy part. If you share an Instagram post to Facebook, the caption is copied across as text, styled characters included, so it looks the same in both feeds as long as the reader's device can draw it.

Some people listen to Facebook rather than read it, and styled letters are where that goes wrong. Depending on the device and the reader, a styled word may be spelled out letter by letter, read as a run of long character names, or skipped. Your own phone can let you hear the problem in under a minute:

1. iPhone: in Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content, turn on Speak Screen. Open your post and swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers.
2. Android: turn on Select to Speak, usually under Settings > Accessibility. Start it, then tap the text you want read aloud.
3. Listen to the styled part. If it comes out garbled or silent, put the key words back in plain letters and keep the styling for a word or two around them.

Tip: Speak Screen isn't a full screen reader, so treat it as a quick check rather than proof. If it can't read your headline, a screen reader user will probably struggle too.