How To Change Fonts On WhatsApp Messages

WhatsApp is a well know personal messaging platform available for smartphones. It works with the help of a phone number to send and receive a text and multimedia related messages using the Internet.

After Facebook take over, WhatsApp rolled out several features to the service which makes the WhatsApp stand out from the alternatives. Recently, dark mode is introduced on WhatsApp, which lets you enable dark mode without third-party apps help.

Now coming to the main topic of the article, fonts change on WhatsApp messages. You may see some people sending the WhatsApp text with various styles like making words in italic, bold, strikethrough etc.

There are many attractive fonts which instantly catches the readers attention. In order to use this feature, you don’t need any additional app or settings to enable fonts on WhatsApp messages. Just follow the simple steps to change fonts on WhatsApp messages on both Android and iOS.

How To Add Bold and Italic Fonts On WhatsApp Messages

Creating a Bold font in WhatsApp

1. Launch WhatsApp and open a chat where you want to send your message.
2. Type a message.
3. Enclose the part of the message that you want to bold by surrounding it between two “*” characters. For example, follow the below sentence-style.
   *Hey, I’m writing in a bold text*
   
4. Now hit the enter button to send the message in bold words.

Creating an italic font in WhatsApp

1. Launch WhatsApp and open a chat where you want to send your message.
2. Type a message.
3. Enclose the part of the message that you want to italic by surrounding it between two “_” characters. For example, follow the below sentence-style.
   _Hey, I’m writing an italic style text_
   
4. Now hit the enter button to send the message in italic style words.

Creating a strikethrough style

1. Launch WhatsApp and open a chat where you want to send your message.
2. Type a message.
3. Enclose the part of the message that you want to strikethrough by surrounding it between two “~” characters. For example, follow the below sentence-style.
   ~Hey, I’m writing a strikethrough style text~
   
4. Now hit the enter button to send the message in strikethrough style words.

Using Monospace font in WhatsApp

1. Launch WhatsApp and open a chat where you want to send your message.
2. Type a message.
3. Enclose the part of the message that you want to add Monospace by surrounding it between two “`” characters. For example, follow the below sentence-style.
   “`Hey, I’m writing a Monospace style text“`
   
4. Now hit the enter button to send the message in Monospace style words.

Combining Bold, italic, and strikethrough in a message

With a simple trick, you can combine all the above styles and apply in a single message. Follow the below format to combine multiple formatting styles, bold, italic, and strikethrough in a single sentence.

~_*This is a multi-formatted text style*_~

Third-party apps for different fonts

There are plenty of third-party apps available to customize the font styles in WhatsApp.

You can customize the message text in different characters like alphabets, symbols, and numbers. The receiver of the message doesn’t need any additional app support to view your styled message.

Android apps like Fancy Text maker is one such app which lets you send messages in different font styles. It is free to use text maker with a ton of great fancy text styles.

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