Ever find the need to have bold, italics, or an alternate unique font for your social media posts? Spice up your tweets or Facebook status updates by using alternate unicode characters.  Once you’ve got your post or tweet ready, head here to input your text and look at various font and style options.  Copy/paste what you want and you’re done.

I’ve done some testing with this set, and they all seem to work on the OS X app and browser version of twitter and Facebook, but many of them are not rendered well on the mobile apps.  Here is a list of fonts that seem to work well across all platforms and apps:

For Twitter:

• Ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ
• ⒫⒜⒭⒠⒩⒯⒣⒠⒮⒤⒵⒠⒟
• ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴩꜱ ᴩꜱᴇᴜᴅᴏᴀʟᴩʜᴀʙᴇᴛ

For Facebook:

• Ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ
• ⒫⒜⒭⒠⒩⒯⒣⒠⒮⒤⒵⒠⒟
• ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ (lower case text only)

Another useful character set are unicode symbols.  For tweets, they can be used to save precious characters while conveying a lot of information (↑↓½★≈≠°♂♬☕☢⚡?☤?).  Here is a great place to look at many of the most useful ones.  As always, you should use a test twitter account to make sure your symbol will fly before putting it into production.

Here is a sample of the entire unicode font style list mentioned above: