Discord Fonts

Discord text formatting commands

Type these around your text in any message. Discord formats it when you hit send.

You can stack them: ***text*** gives bold italic and __**text**__ gives bold underline. Headings and subtext only work at the very start of a line and need a space after the symbol.

Fonts vs commands: where each works

Commands are formatting, so they only work where Discord renders it. Copy-and-paste fonts are characters, so they work in more places, but not everywhere.

So the usual setup is a plain username, a styled display name, and commands for formatting your messages.

What font does Discord use?

Discord's app uses gg sans, a typeface Discord made for itself and switched to on 1 December 2022. It replaced Whitney, the font the app used before. The name comes from "gg", gaming slang for "good game". Discord's logo and marketing use a different family called Ginto.

You can't swap gg sans for another font inside Discord, but you can change the text size underUser Settings → Appearance. To change how your name looks to everyone else, use a copy-and-paste style from the tool above.

Coloured text in Discord (desktop and web)

Discord has no colour command, but code blocks labelled ansi can show coloured text. The catch is that each colour needs an invisible "escape" character you can't type on a keyboard. Tap a template below to copy it with the escape characters included, paste it into Discord, and replace Your text here.

Colours show on the desktop app and in the browser. On phones the same message shows as a plain grey code block, so don't rely on colour alone to carry meaning.

Fonts for channel and category names

Server owners style channel lists with emoji and dividers, like 📢・announcements or💬┃general. Text channel names have stricter rules than display names: Discord turns spaces into hyphens, forces lowercase and strips some special characters. Emoji and dividers like ・ and ┃ usually survive. Preview the name before saving, and keep the words themselves plain so members can find channels with search.

Your Discord bio (About Me)

The About Me box holds 190 characters, with or without Nitro. Styled letters, symbols and emoji all work there, so it's a good place for a cursive tagline or a small-caps list of your games. Because the space is tight, style one short line and keep links and other details plain.

Tips for a Discord display name

• Gothic, bold and small caps read best in the member list, where names are small and crowded.
• Watch the length. Frames like ꧁ ꧂ use characters you might want for your name, and some styled letters count double toward limits.
• Check server rules. Some servers ask for readable or mentionable names, and moderators may reset styled nicknames.