YouTube has three text fields worth knowing. Comments keep styled characters and are where most cursive on YouTube appears. Video titles accept them too, though search matches the plain spelling and thumbnails are images, so a title in styled characters is harder to find. The channel name is the strict one: it can be changed in YouTube Studio and accepts many styled characters, but a name that is mostly symbols can be rejected during review, and the handle after the at sign is plain letters, digits, full stops and underscores only. Use the styles below in comments and titles; if a channel name reverts, keep it plain and put the cursive in the description.
YouTube Fonts
Cursive text styles for the YouTube channel name, with the steps to paste them and what the app keeps.
Styled text uses symbol characters that screen readers announce as symbols.
- Bold Script
- Bold Italic
- Heart Script
- Star Script
- Sparkle Script
- Dotted Script
- Arrow Script
- Wave Script
- Crown Script
- Flower Script
- Bracket Script
- Bold Script Spaced
- Script Spaced
- Bold Italic Spaced
- Fraktur Heart
- Double-struck Star
- Bold
- Sans
- Sans Bold
- Sans Italic
- Sans Bold Italic
- Monospace
- Fullwidth
- Monospace Spaced
- Sans Bold Spaced
- Script
- Italic
- Small Caps
- Superscript
- Subscript
- Fraktur
- Bold Fraktur
- Double-struck
- Bubble Letters
- Negative Circled
- Squared
- Negative Squared
- Parenthesized
- Cyrillic Lookalike
- Greek Lookalike
- Upside Down
- Mirrored
- Strikethrough
- Underline
- Double Underline
- Zalgo Light
- Zalgo Heavy
- Spaced
- Bold Underline
- Bold Script Underline
- Italic Strike
- Bold Strike
Where to paste on YouTube
channel name
- Open YouTube Studio
- Customization
- Basic info
- Paste into Name
- Publish
The handle after the at sign stays plain; if the name reverts after Publish, YouTube filtered it.
title
- Upload a video
- Paste into Title
- Publish
comment
- Paste into the comment box
- Comment