Fonts for an Instagram bio
Styled bio text, previewed at Instagram's own width, with the character budget counted.
The generator
What Instagram does with it
- The bio takes it. The username does not. Handles are limited to letters, digits, dots and underscores, so a styled handle is not possible.
- The name field takes it, and it is searchable. Which is the problem: a styled name is a different string, so people searching your real name will not find it.
- Captions and comments take it. Hashtags in styled characters are not hashtags, though, and will not be linked or indexed.
- 150 characters is the bio limit, counted the way the counter above counts it.
The 3 verdicts, and what they are based on
"Holds up" means the characters come from a Unicode block with full support on iOS, Android and the web app, so the line looks the same to almost everyone. "Check it on a phone" means the block is supported but the result is wide or hard to read at bio size. "Breaks in some fields" means combining marks or reversed text, which a few input fields normalise away or render with the marks drifting onto the wrong letter.
None of it is a guess about the app's future: Instagram does not treat these as formatting, it treats them as text, so anything that changes is the font your phone uses to draw them.
Nothing leaves the page
The styling is a lookup table in this page, so your bio is never sent anywhere. The full set of styles, with notes on each one, is on the font generator.
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