WhatsApp is a current booming free to download messenger app for mobile phones. This service is very close to text messaging services but with the use of the internet. Due to the use of the Internet, the service cost is reduced significantly. It has been very popular among the youth for group chatting, voice messaging and location sharing.
Now talking about WhatsApp front style, it has been offering a few native font styles. However various third party applications are offering large experiences of custom font styles and colours.
Now, we are making you crawl through some of the tricks that help to alter the font styles and give you a better chatting experience.
Various WhatsApp font styles
Bold font:
To enjoy the bold font, first of all, open your WhatsApp and follow these steps:
• Open a chat for sending a message.
• Go ahead and type your messages normally as you do.
• Now, enclose the text that you want to bold with a single asterisk (*).
For example: * Hi, I am Dhurba*.
• Click the send icon and the receiver will receive the bold text.
WhatsApp also offers a built-in option to send a bold-formatted text. Simply select a part of the message you want to make bold and tap on the selected text to reveal a contextual menu. On Android tap on the three-dot and select bold. Choose BIU followed by bold on iPhone.
Italic font:
WhatsApp also supports italic fonts. To enjoy italic fonts follow these steps.
• Open a chat for sending a message.
• Go ahead and type your messages normally as you do.
• Select a part of the text and enclose it with an underscore (_)
For example _HI, I am Dhurba_.
• Click the send icon to send an italic text.
WhatsApp also offers a built-in option to send an italic-formatted text. Simply select a part of the message you want to make bold and tap on the selected text to reveal a contextual menu. On Android tap on the three-dot and select italic. Choose BIU followed by italic on iPhone.
Strikethrough font:
WhatsApp also allows you to strike through the messages. To enjoy this feature follow these steps.
• Open a chat for sending a message.
• Go ahead and type your messages normally as you do.
• Select a part of the text and enclose it with a tilde (~).
For example ~ Hi, I am Dhurba~.
• Finally click send icon.
WhatsApp also offers a built-in option to send strike through-formatted text. Simply select a part of the message you want to strike through and tap on the selected text to reveal a contextual menu. On Android tap on the three-dot and select strike through. Choose BIU followed by strike through on iPhone.
Monospace font:
Now, WhatsApp natively supports monospace font. It is a font in which each character is equally spaced horizontally. Follow these steps to implement monospace font.
• Open a chat for sending a message.
• Go ahead and type your messages normally as you do.
• Now enclose a part of text with three (```) symbol.
For example ```Hi, I am Dhurba```.
• Finally click send icon.
WhatsApp also offers a built-in option to send a monospace text. Simply select a part of the message you want to make monospace and tap on the selected text to reveal a contextual menu. On Android tap on the three-dot and select monospace. Choose BIU followed by strike monospace on iPhone.
Combined Italic, Bold and Strikethrough fonts in WhatsApp
WhatsApp allows you to combine the multiple formatting styles. You can combine bold, italic and strike through at once using some character combination. Here is how you can do:
~_* Hi, I am Dhurba*_~
The character that starts first should be closed at last. But WhatsApp does not support any combination with a monospace font.
Third-party solutions for different WhatsApp font style
If you are bored with the in-built font style in WhatsApp there is good news. You can implement them using various third-party applications. These features can be achieved with the help of various third-party keyboards on iPhone and various Apps for Android phone.
Various apps like Better fonts or New Cool Text can be used on the iPhone. For Android apps like BlueWords or Fancy text is available on Google Play Store.
Some cool font tricks for Android
Blue-font messages (Android to Android)
Third-party Android apps like Fancy Text and BlueWords offers features to send blue-coloured text in WhatsApp messages. iOS users are not able to create and read such messages that are written specific blue font. I am an Android user Yahooo!!!
Font size and languages
This is an exclusive feature for Android users only. The size of the font is very important for increasing visibility within the chat screen. Font can be altered to either small, medium or large depending upon your convenience.
To carry this action, click on the vertical three dots icon on the home screen. Now, choose "Settings>>Chats>> Font Size and choose the appropriate font size. You can also choose the various local languages from the same screen
Above are some of the most used and cool WhatsApp font tricks. Hope you enjoyed the article.
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