TIL: you can bold your description and fields using unicode characters

I saw another plugin with pretty text and I was wondering how they do it

It turns out it’s unicode all the way down. So Bold and Italic Text Generators - 𝐁𝐨π₯𝐝 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘–π‘π‘  works. :man_shrugging:

And it works in the fields, too.
CleanShot 2023-01-27 at 12.49.57@2x

Go unleash your aberrations.


(I’m sure Bubble will break this in the near future, but until then…)
(@eli I know you wanna. Do it. Do it!)

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If you’re a productivity freak like @Andrew.Vernon and you use Raycast on macOS – which you should – there are a couple of extensions in the store to make your life easier (and everyone else’s life more miserable).

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This is great! Now I wish we could update plugin descriptions and field descriptions without a new release of the plugin.

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two top tips :+1: :+1: :+1: (raycast, unicode) for the price of one!

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Ahhh, @rico.trevisan, thank you! I’m gonna do it.

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Don’t forget the notes…
CleanShot 2023-01-27 at 17.52.28@2x

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Interesting find, @rico.trevisan. On Windows, you could use the Character Map utility to compose the same Unicode strings.

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So many notes.

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Just a heads up that I learned about Unicode fonts a little while ago. Since these symbols can have different meanings and usages, screen readers might not read them correctly. If your audience doesn’t include people using screen readers, I guess it’s okay to use them. You could use this one; it has a pretty clean UI.

it works in field documentation too, that’s great

is there anything out there that does some kind of translation from readme.md format to unicode?

at least https://markdown-to-unicode.vercel.app/

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Hey, so out of criosity I tested these Unicode font styles at a font generator with NVDA screen reader to test whether people with screen readers can read them or not, turns our there are few styles around 10 that NVDA could read, but I tested with a specific text example only, so it would be a good idea to test your text with a screen reader if you are using those styles at a place where accessibilty is a concern.