How to customize your text on Discord (2023)

If you're a gamer, you're likely familiar with using Discord for your gaming connections and communications. However, when you're at the front end of the server, sometimes you need something more than plain text to get your message across. Those new to Discord may see some of the veterans writing in bold, italics, strikethrough words, and multicolored text. This guide outlines how to do all of these things to join the ranks of the most experienced Discord users.

These formatting techniques aren't that difficult to perform, but until they become second nature to you, you may need to refer to them constantly to do certain things. You can bookmark this article, take some screenshots, or write these basic things down somewhere. Text formatting, which we'll cover in a moment, depends on the built-in text processing allowed in the Markdown markup language.

Familiarize yourself with the basics

First, familiarize yourself with some of the powerful characters that make these text formatting manipulations possible. Search your keyboard to find the key combination for the asterisk symbol ( * ), the underscore symbol ( _ ), the tilde symbol ( ~ ), the grave accent symbol ( ` ), and the backslash symbol ( \ ). On a standard US QWERTY keyboard layout, they can be found on the following keys:

• Asterisk: [SHIFT] + [8] – the 8 key
• Underscore: [SHIFT] + [-] — on the right side of the number key [0]
• Tilde: [Shift] + [ ` ] — on the left side of the number key [1]
• Backslash or tilde: [ ` ] — on the left side of the number key [1]
• Backslash: [ \ ] - three keys to the right of the letter [P] key or above the [ENTER] key

shackle text

To make your words or phrases bold, place two asterisks on either side of the text and press Enter. Do not include spaces between the two asterisk symbols, between them, or between them and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: **Example of bold text**

italic text

To italicize your words or phrases, place an asterisk on either side of the text and press Enter. Do not include spaces between the asterisk and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: *Example text in italics*

Underlined text

To underline your word or phrase, surround the text with two underscores on either side and press Enter. Do not include spaces between the two underscores, between them, or between them and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: __Example of underlined text__

Scratched through the text

To strikethrough your words or sentences, place two tilde symbols around the text and press Enter. Do not include spaces between the two tilde symbols, between them, or between them and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: ~~Example of strikethrough text~~

Always chic with multiple commands

If you want to combine some of the formatting options discussed above, here are the general rules to follow in the cases listed below.

Bold and italic text

To make your words or sentences bold and italic at the same time, enclose the text in two asterisk symbols for the bold command, and add a third asterisk symbol for the italic command. Press Enter. Do not include spaces between the three asterisk symbols, between them, or between them and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: ***Example of bold and italic text***

Bold and underlined text

To bold and underline your words or sentences at the same time, enclose the text in two asterisk symbols for the bold command, and add two underscore symbols for the underline command. Underscores must be outside the text and asterisks must be inside this outer box. Press Enter. Do not include spaces between the asterisk and underscore symbols, between them, or between them and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: __**Example of bold and underlined text**__

Underlined and italic text

To underline and italicize your words or phrases at the same time, enclose the text with a single asterisk symbol for the italic command, and add two underscore symbols for the underline command. The underscores must be outside the text and the asterisk must be inside this outer box. Press Enter. Do not include spaces between the asterisk and underscore symbols, between them, or between them and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: __*Example of underlined and italic text*__

Bold, underlined, and italicized text

To run all three commands at once: Bold, Underline, and Italic for your words or sentences, enclose the text in three asterisks (two for the bold command and one for the italic command) and add two underscores for the underlined command . Underscores must be outside the text and asterisks must be inside this outer box. Press Enter. Do not include spaces between the asterisk and underscore symbols, between them, or between them and the beginning or ending character of the text.

Example: __***Example of bold, underlined and italicized text***__

Back to simpler roots

What if you just want to send a few asterisk, underscore, or tilde symbols without bolding, italicizing, underlining, or strikethrough? To do this, add backslashes in front of each of these symbols to prevent them from becoming commands. The backslash acts as an escape symbol. Again, don't add spaces between symbols or backslashes.

Example: \_\_\*\*\*Example of plain text with symbols\*\*\*\_\_

coloring text

To color your text, you must use the tick or backtick (`) symbol. Look up the combinations of marks and hyphens needed for the different color schemes.

Red (difference syntax)

",Difference
- Example of red text in diff syntax
„`

Rot-Orange (CSS-Sintaxis)

„css
[Example of changing text to orange in CSS syntax] "`

Yellow (correct syntax)

"`correct
Example of yellow text in the proofing syntax:
„`

Green (differential syntax)

",Difference
+ Example of green text in diff syntax
„`

Hellgrün (Sintaxis CSS)

„css
"Example of light green text in CSS syntax"
„`

Blau (INI Syntax)

"He
[example of blue text in INI syntax] "`

other properties

There are a few other things you can do with your text on Discord. For example, you can create bulleted lists, tables, block quotes, and even add inline images.

favorites lists

To create a bookmark, enter the following syntax:

⋅⋅* You can use this combination of symbols.
* You can use a single asterisk with a space.
– You can also use a hyphen symbol with a space.
+ You can also use a connector tag with spaces.

mesas

| tables | are | cool |
| —————– |:—————-:| ———:|
| Column 3 is | aligned to the right | $1600 |
| Column 2 is | centered | $12 |
| Crosswalk | are pure | $1 |

block quotes

> Use the icon shown to the left for block quotes.

Photos

To add inline images, use the following inline style text:


final thoughts

The syntax above summarizes many of the things you can do on Discord to customize your text. In addition, you can make other technical adjustments, which you can find in Markup Markup Languageguide. However, this article will walk you through the most common text customizations, as well as some additional resources.