The LinkedIn headline is a great place to tell the audience who you are. An eye-striking headline text ideally should support:
- Bolded, Italic & other well-supported formats
- Multi-line texts
However, this is not an easy task since LinkedIn does not support such rich formatted texts. This article showcases the tips that might be helpful to achieve such goals, and a live example can be found here.
Bolded and Italic texts
The idea is very simple. By using Unicode symbols that look like formatted text, we are able to trick LinkedIn and the viewer into thinking what they are seeing is bold or italics, or underlined text. One good online service can be found at Linkedin Text Formatter/
➼ Copy the text you want to format
➼ Paste it here
➼ Copy the formatted text back to the LinkedIn input box
Multi-line Text
LinkedIn will take all the texts you input for the headline as strings or simple texts, you cannot use <br/> or ‘\n’ to indicate a new line break, it simply doesn’t recognize these special characters.
One of the tricks is to use a single long string, which will be autowrapped to next line.
The first line followed by AveryloooooooooooooooongString ⤵
The first line followed by
AverylooooooooooooooooooooooongString
The very long string should not contain any white spaces, so if you really need space to delimit two different words, use some Unicode symbols, e.g.
Instead of AWS Azure GCP ← this will be regarded as 3 strings
Try to use AWS•Azure•GCP ← this will be regarded as a single long string
Things to note
- Do not use “|” as a word delimiter, it will be regarded as something like space
For instance, if you use the string “𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥|𝘞𝘦𝘣|𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦|𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘖𝘱𝘴|𝘈𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦” as 3rd line of the text, it may actually look like below:
2. The multi-line headline text may not always look right under different display settings, it may not be mobile responsive!
3. You might use some emoji or Unicode symbols in the headline as well:
☁️ ️🎷⚽️ 🌐
Enjoy!
