WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world, with over 2 billion users. One of the fun features of WhatsApp is the ability to format your text in different fonts and styles when messaging your friends and family.
While WhatsApp doesn’t have built-in font options like Instagram or Facebook, there are some simple tricks you can use to type in different fonts. With a little creativity, you can send messages in bold, italics, strikethrough, and even different fonts like handwriting or monospace.
Use Third-Party Font Apps
The easiest way to type in different fonts on WhatsApp is by using third-party font converter apps. These apps allow you to type out a message normally, then convert it into the font style of your choice before copying and pasting it into your WhatsApp chat.
Some popular font apps for WhatsApp include:
- Font Changer
- Stylish Text
- Font Style Changer
- FancyKey – Fonts & Keyboard Themes
- Font Generator
The basic process with these apps is:
- Open the font app and type out your message as normal using your keyboard.
- Select the font style you want from the options in the app.
- Tap convert to change your text into the chosen font.
- Copy the converted text and paste it into your WhatsApp chat.
The font will appear exactly how you styled it in the font app when your recipient sees the WhatsApp message. This provides an easy way to add visual flair to your chats without installing anything on your phone.
Use Special Characters
You can type in different font styles in WhatsApp by clever use of special characters. This method lets you transform text into bold, italics, strikethrough, and more just using your keyboard.
Here are some common special characters and how to use them to change font styles:
Bold
Add asterisks * around your text to make it bold.
*Bold text*
becomes *Bold text*
Italics
Add underscores _ around your text to make it italics.
_Italicized text_
becomes _Italicized text_
Strikethrough
Add tildes ~ around your text to strikethrough.
~Strikethrough text~
becomes ~Strikethrough text~
Monospace
Add backquotes ` around text for monospace font.
`Monospace text`
becomes `Monospace text`
Get creative combining special characters to stylize your text in different ways!
Use Unicode Fonts
Beyond basic formatting, you can use Unicode symbols and characters to create fonts like handwriting, old English text, Chinese/Japanese text, emojis, and more. This lets you mimic lettering in different languages and styles.
To type in Unicode fonts:
- Find and copy the Unicode symbols for the font you want to use from a Unicode reference chart online.
- Paste the Unicode symbols into your WhatsApp message.
- The symbols will show up in the stylized font.
For example, pasting the following Unicode into WhatsApp creates old English style text:
Ƿнат ıт íṡ
It takes longer to manually insert Unicode like this, but gives you access to more diverse fonts.
Use Copy-Paste Fonts
Another way to access different fonts is by using copy and paste fonts from websites like fontgenerator.org, igfonts.io, lingojam.com, and fancytexttool.com.
These websites let you type text into a box, convert it into different fonts like handwriting, Old English, Asian scripts, emojis, and more. You can then copy and paste the converted text into WhatsApp to send stylized messages.
The advantage of these sites is they give quick access to fonts you’d otherwise have to lookup Unicode for. The downside is they require an internet connection to generate and copy the fonts.
Custom Keyboards
For Android users, installing a custom keyboard like Gboard, SwiftKey, or FancyKey lets you directly access and type in diverse font styles and emoji.
These keyboards have options built-in to stylize text as bold, italic, serif, script, emoji, and more. Once installed, you can seamlessly switch keyboard styles within WhatsApp.
Custom keyboards provide the most convenience if you regularly use different fonts. But they require downloading another app.
Font Style Limitations
While you can get creative with fonts in WhatsApp, there are some limitations:
- Font effects only apply to plain text messages. Any media attachments will display normally.
- Font effects are visible only to users who have fonts installed on their device.
- Overusing fonts can make messages hard to read.
- Stylized text takes up more screen space than normal text.
- Custom fonts don’t show up properly when quoting messages.
Keeping these limitations in mind will help you use font formatting effectively on WhatsApp.
Conclusion
Typing in stylized fonts on WhatsApp is easy with font apps, special characters, Unicode symbols, copy-paste fonts, and custom keyboards. While font options are more limited than other platforms, you can get creative with bold, italic, serif, handwriting, and foreign language fonts to spice up your chats.
Some key takeaways are:
- Third-party font apps provide the quickest way to convert plain text into stylized fonts for WhatsApp.
- Special characters like asterisks, underscores, and backquotes can format WhatsApp text into bold, italics, and monospace.
- Unicode symbols give you access to unique fonts like foreign scripts and emojis.
- Websites let you copy-paste text in funky font styles like handwriting into WhatsApp.
- Custom keyboards on Android provide built-in font formatting features.
With these tips, you can take your WhatsApp chats to the next level and communicate in far more expressive ways using text formatting and fonts!
