Discord Text Formatter: Colored text, bold, strikethrough, and spoilers

Discord uses its own version of Markdown: write **bold**, *italic*, __underlined__, ~~strikethrough~~, and ||spoilers|| by placing special characters around the text. In the Discord Text Formatter, select a word and click a style in the toolbar. Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, and Ctrl+K for links also work.

Discord has no text color command, but there is a workaround: a code block marked ansi that reads ANSI color codes. In the Colored text tab, select parts of your text and choose a color; the tool builds the block. Click “Copy colored text” to copy it, then paste it into Discord.

Eight text colors with codes 30 to 37 (gray, red, green, yellow, blue, pink, cyan, white) and eight backgrounds with codes 40 to 47 (dark blue, orange, marble blue, gray-green, gray, indigo, light gray, white), plus bold (code 1) and underline (code 4). Discord doesn't support custom hex colors. You can still make multicolored text: the tool lets you give each selected word or individual letter its own color.

Discord displays the colors in the desktop app and browser. Depending on the version, the mobile app may show the block without colors, but the text remains readable. Use color as an extra, not as the only way to convey information.

Put two tildes around the text: ~~strikethrough~~. For underlining, use two underscores: __like this__. You can combine both with bold and italics, such as __***like this***__.

Start a line with #, ##, or ### followed by a space to make it a heading, or with -# to make it small text. In the “Format” tab, the Heading and Small Text buttons add these characters for you. Clicking Heading repeatedly cycles through the three sizes.

To make a spoiler, put two vertical bars around the text, for example ||hidden text||. It stays hidden until someone clicks it. For a code block, put three backticks on their own lines before and after the text; adding a language such as js or python highlights the code. In the tool, select the text and click Spoiler or Code Block.

2,000 characters, or 4,000 with Nitro. Color codes count toward the limit, so the counter in the Colored Text tab shows the length of the finished block.

No. The Discord Text Formatter runs entirely in your browser. Your text is neither uploaded nor stored.