Do you feel like your Instagram captions lack a little something these days? 🤔
Wish there was a way to quickly grab your reader’s attention OR help them skim your caption copy for the main points?
Great news – there is, and the secret is a quick Instagram font change!
Let’s take a look at how some of our favorite Instagrammers are making the most of different fonts for Instagram in their captions – and how you can put our new Instagram font changer tool to work!
How to Get Different Fonts On Instagram Caption
Using our newest formatting tool to change font on Instagram is SO easy, it’ll become a natural part of your caption creation in no time.
Here’s how to get different fonts on Instagram:
- Log in to Tailwind for Instagram on your desktop
- Upload your post photo, OR select an existing photo you want to edit!
- Begin typing your caption
- Select from the different fonts for Instagram in the pop-up. You can choose Serif, Cursive, Bold and Italic.
You can also combine some styles together, such as Bold + Italic, Bold + Cursive, and even Bold, Italic + Times New Roman for all kinds of fancy letters.
You’re not limited to one style for your entire caption, either! You can use any style in any part of your caption except Hashtags. Just click the different fonts you’d like to use on Instagram as you’re typing!
See? We told you it was the easiest way to change your font – no pesky generator or Instagram caption formatting web tool required.
How to Change Font on Instagram Bio
Want to change the font on your Instagram bio, too? It’s a breeze with the feature built into Tailwind’s Instagram scheduling tool!
You’ll need to change font on your Instagram bio via desktop. It takes just two steps:
Step One: Open Tailwind For Instagram on Desktop
To get different fonts on Instagram, you’ll need to work in an existing draft – or upload a new post to get started.
Now open your draft and type the message you want to put in your Instagram bio (in the font of your choice!)
Once you’ve formatted your new font change for Instagram bio to perfection, select the stylish text you’ve typed and hit copy (Command + C/ Control + C)!
Step Two: Open Instagram for Desktop to Update Your Bio
The secret to how to change Instagram fonts in your bio is really as simple as a quick copy and paste! Once you’re in the Instagram app for desktop, head over to your Instagram Profile >Edit Profile.
Drop your newly-minted Instagram bio font into the Bio textbox. You can do one sentence, or the whole thing!
Just remember that you’ll have to type the complete text in our caption formatting tool to paste into this section.
Once your bio is updated with new Insta fonts, click Submit and check it out!
Pro Tip: If you want to format your Instagram bio with spaces and line breaks to work on Instagram, make sure you remove any extra spaces after emojis, text symbols, and punctuation marks.
Even one extra space at the end of a line cancels out your line spacing! 😱
How to Use Instagram Font Change For Sales + Engagement
Besides being totally cool, different Instagram text fonts serve a purpose in your Instagram strategy. In fact, new Instagram font styles can help make your great Instagram captions get more sales!
Want to see how? Here’s some of our favorite uses for different Instagram fonts:
1.Tease Main Points with Different Instagram Fonts
When users are scrolling mindlessly through Instagram, they’re less likely to stop and click on every caption to read it.
After all, they know there’s another post coming up next!
To capture attention quickly, you have to stop the scroll with an Instagram caption that stands out.
For example, Molly has placed a powerful call-to-action in eye-catching Instagram font exactly where it’ll appear in the feed (only about 35 characters appear before someone has to click read more.).
Bold the first line of your caption with an eye-grabbing question or statement.
Then bold select keywords throughout your copy to help skimmers get the gist quickly and decide to engage!
2.Bold Key Words That Trigger Strong Reactions
This is a handy psychological trick that plays into evoking strong emotion – all with the use of an Instagram font change!
Try bolding or adding different fonts for Instagram to select keywords and phrases that will trigger emotion or action.
A great example is something like ⚡️FLASH SALE! ⚡️
3. Highlight Your Events with Instagram Font Changes
Anxious to get attendees to buy tickets on Instagram for your latest event or promotion?
Try bolding the most relevant information so it jumps out at casual browsers.
By bolding the who, when, and where’s, your readers are more likely to check their calendars and figure out if they can attend the event.
If they can, they’ve already achieved that “mental buy-in” they’ll need to keep reading and sign up!
If they can’t, you’ll save yourself that disappointment that could damage your follower relationship by making them jump through hoops only to find out they can’t attend the event.
4. Use Instagram Cursive Font In Short Captions
These fancy characters of are best used sparingly. If you’ve ever seen a full paragraph of Instagram cursive font, it’s tough to read. So how do you write in cursive on Instagram in a way that won’t overwhelm your followers?
Keep it simple: Choose short but impactful sentences and phrases in your caption and change the Instagram font to cursive.
In fact, this is a great font to use for one-sentence captions or a dreamy song lyric!
5. Mix and Match Different Instagram Fonts for High Impact Captions
If you have multiple CTAs or actions your followers can take from your post, try highlighting them throughout your caption in different fonts.
For example, Download now, Click Get Tickets on my profile, or Questions? Tap the Contact Button!
Conclusion: How to Change Instagram Font on Your Captions + Bio
Before now, using different fonts for Instagram was kind of a headache. 🤕 Any time you longed to format Instagram copy with bolds, italics or that awesome fancy cursive, you’d have to use copy and paste fonts from web text generators.
While an Instagram font generator isn’t hard to use, it’s just one more step to include in your social media planning…and who needs ANOTHER step?
That’s why Tailwind’s built-in caption font formatting is such a time-saver for Instagram marketers! 🤩
With our latest feature, you can quickly customize your Instagram caption fonts. It’s officially the easiest way to change Instagram font and style – all in one screen!
And the best part is, after you’ve finished perfecting your Instagram caption (complete with your new fancy text), you can schedule your post in one click with our Instagram publishing tool.
So what are you waiting for? Get in there and start formatting. 😉
And if you’ve never used Tailwind for Instagram before, click the box below for a free trial of Tailwind for Instagram.
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- Schedule photos and videos directly to your Instagram feed with Auto Post.
- Optimize every post for more engagement with SmartSchedule and Hashtag Finder.
- Automatically hide your post’s hashtags in the first comment to keep your caption clean & clutter-free.
- Make your posts more discoverable with user tagging & location tagging.
- Analyze what's working across every post and profile with smart analytics.
Kristen Dahlin is a Content Marketer at Tailwind — an Instagram marketing tool, scheduling tool, hashtag finding tool, and analytics platform. Kristen lives in rural Oklahoma with her husband Kyle, daughter Sophie, boxer Lila, and a very temperamental flower garden.
Wanted to add that I have a android/Huawei phone that’s 1.5 years old, and it does not support the different fonts – meaning the text shows up as boxes with an X in. Just something to keep in mind before formatting all the important information, as it means a % of your audience will not be able to read it 😊
Hi Anne!
That’s a REALLY good insight, thanks for letting us know! Sounds like we could create an FAQ to clue users in on this! -Kristen
Ok Tailwind, you just keep upping your game! I’ve just started using different fonts for IG and FB using a third party site, copying and pasting, and I love it! And now I can do this FROM TW? It’s those little things that you do that make my social media game a little easier…in so many ways.
Hi Brittany!
Awww, I’m so happy to hear that this feature is so exciting to you! We hope it saves you a little more time and helps up your social media game. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! -Kristen
I tried this on one post. I was able to create the post and format the text Bold in Tailwind but when it uploaded to IG it was just regular font, no bold. What could have gone wrong?
I am using the free version since I am still testing various platforms to see what works best for me. This feature would be a plus.
Hi Dani,
Hmmm… that’s strange! Can you contact Customer Success so they can look into this more and figure out what the cause might be? We’d love to know more! -Kristen