How to Format Text in Discord

Discord is a freeware application that was initially created for the video gaming enthusiasts for communication using chat, video and audio communication. It’s a cross-platform feature and run on any operating system: Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and across several web browsers.

In this guide, we shall examine how to format text in Discord, This includes how to make your text appear Bold, Italicized, underlined and colored among many others. Without much further ado, let’s jump in.

1. How to make text appear bold

   To make your text appear bold in Discord, enclose it between double  asterisk   i.e. ** bold text**
   
   

   Hey guys! **Welcome aboard**

   
   
   After you hit ‘ENTER’ to send the message, the text will appear in bold as shown in the output below
   

2. How to make text appear in italics

   To Italicize text in discord,  enclose the text in single asterisk  i.e  * Italicized word*

   We have plenty of ncie bitings like *les gateuax, les bananes les croissants*

   
   
   After pressing ‘ENTER’ the message will appear italicized as shown below
   
3. How to underline text

   To underline text, enclose the text between double underscore marks i.e __ bold text __
   For instance

   And get enough sleep for tomorrow's __Koroga Festival__

   
   
   Hit ENTER and the text between the double underscore marks will be underlined
   

4. How to strikethrough text

   To strikethrough text, enclose text within double tilde marks  (~~)  i.e. ~~text~~
   For instance,

   It's gonna be a delightful event to --behold--

   
   
   When you hit ENTER, your text will be struck through as shown below
   

Format Text in Discord using a combination of techniques

So far, we have covered how you can make your text appear bold, italicized, underlined and how you can place a strikethrough. In this section, we shall see how you can format text using a combination of these techniques, for example, you can have a combination of bold and underlined text, bold and italicized and so on.

Let’s dive deeper and see how you can achieve this.

Let’s explore a few examples

1. Color your text red To add red color to your text, use the triple backtick (“`) with diff attribute & hyphen (-) as shown
   

   ```diff 
   - Text to be colored red
   ```

   
   
   
   Hit ENTER and your text will change to Red color
   
2. Color your text

   To color your text , use the brackets [ ] to enclose the text alongside the attribute css   as shown

   ```css
   
   [ Some  Text ]
   
   ```
   
   <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2388" src="https://simpletecki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/How-to-type-.png" alt="How to make text " width="811" height="145" />
   
   Hit ENTER, and here will be your result.

3. Color your text

   To make your text color , use the triple backtick (“`) with fix attribute as shown below i.e

    ```fix
   Some  text example 
   ```

   After hitting ENTER, your text will appear as follows

4. Color your text dark green

   To color your text dark green, use the  triple backtick (“`) with json attribute as shown below i.e

   ```json
   
   "Some dark gren text"
   
   ```

   
   Hit the ENTER button and see your text transform into a dark green color.
   
5. Color your text Blue
   

   If Blue happens to be your favorite color and you itch using it in your text in discord,  use the triple backtick (“`) with the ini attribute as shown below i.e

   ```ini
   [Some BLue text]
   ```

   
   Hit Enter and here are the results.
   

Take away

We have come to the conclusion of this topic, the ball now is in your court. Give it a try and send us some feedback. In this tutorial, you learned how to format text in Discord.