Telegram fonts and formatting

Every Telegram app can format text in a message before you send it. Type the message, select the words, and pick a style from the menu that appears: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, monospace, spoiler, quote or link.

Telegram Desktop also has keyboard shortcuts and accepts typed marks. On a Mac, use Cmd in place of Ctrl.

Underline, quotes and links are in the selection menu too. Formatting stays with a message when it's forwarded, so a channel post keeps its bold headings and spoilers wherever it ends up.

Telegram's formatting only exists inside messages and posts. Profiles and channel details are plain text fields, and that's where pasted styles earn their place.

Telegram's monospace and the generator's Typewriter style look alike but behave differently. Telegram's is formatting on ordinary characters, and in the phone apps a tap on it copies the text, which is why shops and channels put coupon codes and order numbers in monospace. The Typewriter style is made of maths characters: 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙾𝟷𝟶 looks like PROMO10, but a checkout treats it as a different string and rejects it.

Keep the Typewriter style for places Telegram's formatting can't reach, such as a line in your bio, and never use it for anything someone needs to copy and use.

Two things limit how far a styled name travels on Telegram. People who have you saved as a contact see the name in their own contact list, not the one you set. And search works on the letters people type, so a name or channel title written entirely in styled characters is harder to find.

• Name: style one part and leave the other plain, such as 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗮 Bakes or Mira | ᴄᴀᴋᴇꜱ ᴏɴ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ.
• Bio: a short small-caps label, then plain details: ʙᴀᴋɪɴɢ ɪɴ ᴘᴜɴᴇ · orders via @mirabakes.
• Channel title: 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 design tips styles the word nobody searches for and keeps design tips plain.
• Group title: a symbol frame, such as ✦ Book club ✦, often looks better than restyled letters and keeps every word searchable.

Tip: Your @username can't be styled, so it's the one thing people can always type to find you. Put it where it's easy to copy, such as the first line of a channel description.

Some Telegram formatting has no character-based version at all. A spoiler hides text until each reader taps it, and a quote sets a passage apart as a block. The generator's strikethrough and underline imitate Telegram's with a combining mark after every character, which looks close but breaks at each space, and a screen reader may announce the marks.

So in messages, reach for the formatting menu first. The generator is for the parts of Telegram that don't have one.