Instagram fonts for your bio and captions

How to change your font on Instagram

Instagram has no font menu for a bio, a name or a caption, so the app shows all of them in the same letters. The fonts here get round that: each of their letters is a separate Unicode character, and Instagram shows it just as it is.

1. Type your name, your bio or the first line of a caption in the field at the top.
2. Scroll through the groups and tap Copy beside the font you want.
3. In Instagram, open Edit profile and paste it into Name or Bio, or paste it into a caption, a comment or the text of a story.

What font does Instagram use?

Instagram’s own typeface is Instagram Sans, drawn for its 2022 redesign with Colophon Foundry, and its logo is lettering made for the brand. You can pick Instagram Sans in the text tool of a story, but your profile and your posts have no font menu at all, which is why people paste Unicode fonts like these instead.

Where Instagram fonts work

• Your name, the line in bold above your bio: it takes styled letters, and Instagram lets you change it twice in 14 days.
• Your bio: it holds 150 characters, and a frame of symbols uses up some of them.
• Captions and comments: a bold first line catches the eye as people scroll.
• Stories and Reels: paste them into the text tool and they keep their shapes over your photo or video.
• Not your @username: it takes only plain letters, numbers, periods and underscores.

Fonts everyone can read

A screen reader spells many of these letters out one at a time, or skips them, and a search box may not match them to ordinary words. So keep what people look for readable: your @username is always plain, and a name can wear a symbol or two around ordinary letters while the styled font goes in your bio.

If a font turns into empty squares on someone’s screen, their phone simply lacks those characters. Bold, italic, cursive and small capitals show up almost everywhere; the letters borrowed from other alphabets, on fewer phones.

Fonts that move, for your Reels

Under the field, four of our own styles say your words the way they caption a video: Rhinestones scatters acrylic gems around them, Sun Eyes presses them into a painted sky where gold suns watch, Lavender Post sets them in a spring scrapbook, and Soap Bubbles blows every letter like a bubble. None of them is on any other site; tap one to put it on a Reel of your own.

Fonts for designing a post

A post you lay out in Canva or CapCut needs a real font file instead. The ones our four styles are made with cost nothing on Google Fonts: Bagel Fat One, Cinzel, Caprasimo and DynaPuff. For more letters to paste, see aesthetic fonts, the cursive font generator and copy and paste fonts in every style.

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